Foundation and Anchor Design Guide for Metal Building Systems

by Alexander Newman

Overview

MEET THE COMPLEX CHALLENGES OF METAL BUILDING SYSTEMS FOUNDATION DESIGN

Expand your professional design skills and engineer safe, reliable foundations and anchors for metal building systems. Written by a practicing structural engineer, Foundation and Anchor Design Guide for Metal Building Systems thoroughly covers the entire process--from initial soil investigation through final design and construction. The design of different types of foundations is explained and illustrated with step-by-step examples. The nuts-and-bolts discussion covers the best design and construction practices. This detailed reference book explains how the design of metal building foundations differs from the design of conventional foundations and how to comply with applicable building codes while avoiding common pitfalls.

COVERAGE INCLUDES:

• Metal building and foundation design fundamentals
• Soil types, properties, and investigation
• Unique aspects of foundation design for metal building systems
• Design of isolated column footings
• Foundation walls and wall footings
• Tie rods, hairpins, and slab ties
• Moment-resisting foundations
• Slab with haunch, trench footings, and mats
• Deep foundations
• Anchors in metal building systems
• Concrete embedments in metal building systems

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071766340
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/22/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	756,175
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Alexander Newman, P.E., is principal structural engineer with Maguire Group, Inc., a national architectural, engineering and planning firm, in Foxborough, Massachusetts. With two decades of engineering and management experience, he has worked as project engineer with a consulting engineering firm, design engineer with a light-gage framing panel manufacturer, and manager of fabrication for a steel fabricator. He has planned and supervised structural renovation of numerous buildings throughout the country, including a Boston Edison switching and conversion station that won the 1990 American Consulting Engineering Council of New England Award for Engineering Excellence. Mr. Newman holds an advanced degree in structural engineering from the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute in Russia, and a master’s degree in business administration with high honors from Boston University. He is the author of the Bestselling Metal Building Systems, also from McGraw-Hill, and a number of award-winning articles that have appeared in leading engineering publications. Additionally, he conducts continuing-education seminars on metal building systems for design professionals sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers and other organizations, and teaches at Northeastern University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: To Metal Building Systems
Chapter 2 Foundation Design Basics
Chapter 3 Foundations for Metal Building Systems: The Main
Chapter 4 Design of Isolated Column Footings
Chapter 5 Foundation Walls and Wall Footings
Chapter 6 Tie Rods, Hairpins, and Slab Ties
Chapter 7 Moment-Resisting Foundations
Chapter 8 Slab with Haunch, Trench Footings, Mats
Chapter 9 Deep Foundations
Chapter 10 Anchor Bolts and Other Embedments
Appendix - Foundation Reactions