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Simplified Engineering for Architects and Builders, Tenth Edition
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JAMES AMBROSE is Editor of the Parker/Ambrose Series of Simplified Design Guides. He has practiced as an architect in California and Illinois, and as a structural engineer in Illinois. He was a professor of architecture at the University of Southern California.

PATRICK TRIPENY is Associate Professor at the University of Utah's College of Architecture and Planning.

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Preface to the Tenth Edition.

Preface to the First Edition.

Introduction.

PART I: PRINCIPLES OF STRUCTURAL MECHAICS.

1. Investigation of Forces and Force Actions.

2. Force Actions.

3. Investigation of Beams and Frames.

4. Structural Design Loads and Methods.

PART II: WOOD CONSTRUCTION.

5. Wood Spanning Elements.

6. Wood Columns.

7. Connections for Wood Structures.

PART III: STEEL CONSTRUCTION.

8. Steel Structural Products.

9. Steel Beams and Framing Elements.

10. Steel Columns and Frames.

11. Bolted Connections for Steel Structures.

12. Light-Gage Formed Steel Structures.

PART IV: CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION.

13. Reinforced Concrete Structures.

14. Flat-Spanning Concrete Systems.

15. Concrete Columns and Frames.

16. Footings.

PART V: STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS FOR BUILDINGS.

17. General Considerations for Structures.

18. Building One.

19. Building  Two.

20. Building Three.

Appendix A.

References.

Answer to Exercise Problems

Index.

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