Structural design guidelines???

I am looking for some type of media that gives general guidelines for structural design (not detailing). For instance, if you wanted to design a stairtower it would tell/show you typical member sizes, dimensions, annotations, connections etc. that would be used for an assortment of stairtowers generally used in structural design. Any books or programs showing this would be a very big help.

 

Basically, there would be no such animal. Structural design is an engineers' forte and no two towers would be designed exactly the same way (except those that would be right next to each other). Design of these as with any other structural building/frame entails wind loading, soil characteristics and many other items too complicated to have a "standard book". Connections would be either bolted
or welded - again, something that would be designed by an engineer for each case.

 

Good answer Walt. Do you think these threads would be reduced by some factor of 10 if all the posts looking for a quick and easy way to do something without having to think were deleted?

 

I assume you're looking for general guidelines of practice. Every company I've worked for has developed their own set, but if you can find a copy of an old book by Rip Weaver called "Structural Drafting", you'll find many "standard" practices outlined, "Rules of Thumb" and such for industrial applications.

Commercial building or public access is another story.

 

They would be decreased all the more if people didn't feel the need to belittle someone on the assumption that they are lazy and unwilling to think something through. Just because you already understand something does that mean that everyone else must have the ability to just understand the same as you? No! People must learn, and I am currently in that process. In the short amount of time I have been working in this field I have noticed that there have been some similarities in various stairtowers as well as other entities designed in structural engineering. So I "thought" it would be a good idea to familiarize myself with the more or less typical design of these structures as to become a little more useful to the engineer in the design process. But, please forgive me if I offended you with my attempt to find a quick and easy way to do something without having to think.

 

You go Ryan!

I always thought the purpose of the "news group" was to share
information......

Paul

belittle someone on the assumption that they are lazy and unwilling to think
something through. Just because you already understand something does that
mean that everyone else must have the ability to just understand the same as
you? No! People must learn, and I am currently in that process. In the short
amount of time I have been working in this field I have noticed that there
have been some similarities in various stairtowers as well as other entities
designed in structural engineering. So I "thought" it would be a good idea
to familiarize myself with the more or less typical design of these
structures as to become a little more useful to the engineer in the design
process. But, please forgive me if I offended you with my attempt to find a
quick and easy way to do something without having to think.

 

Hard to tell looking at a screen if you're inexperienced and curious or ...."the other..."

Apologies extended for making the wrong call.