A lot of structural design books are available in PDF form online if you do some searching. If you start searching for textbooks and design guides you'll find a lot of them in different subjects. I keep a folder on my hard drive that contains all of the PDF documents I've collected over many years and I keep this data backed up like I do with all other digital data. I agree that it is very important to have a good method for categorizing these files so you can find things easily. I even have a separate folder linked on the desktop of my computer containing the files that I use the most frequently so I can have direct access to them. Digital documents are even more useful now than ever before with people working from home part time, and working from the office part time. We can't carry all of our books around with us in hardcopy form but we can carry digital versions. That way no matter where I'm working I have access to various manuals and books. A person should have design guides in the main subjects of steel, concrete and wood, but also analysis and mechanics of materials, and I think there are other subjects and lesser design guides that are also helpful. In the subject of analysis I think books with modern digital analysis principles are useful but also older analysis books with classic (meaning before computers) methods of analysis. Off the top of my head some other books that I find useful are: Architectural Graphic Standards Building Design and Construction handbooks Civil Engineering Formulas and Handbook of Civil Engineering Calculations ACI Design Handbook (ACI 340 and SP-17) ACI Detailing Manual (SP-66) CRSI handbook PCA simplified design Design of Welded Structures by Blodgett
Old / historical books about engineering are a great resource to learn about old, antiquated building techniques that are not common anymore / forgotten in time. They are a must if you do renovations of older buildings. Especially in the devlopment of (precast) reinforced concrete a lot of building systems came and went in the early 20th century. Even systems from the 60's and 70's can be very different from the present. A lot of these old systems are not in contemporary publications.
Quote all of this. Also book write before finite elements method and PC calculus, have great analytical method, and you can learn a lot, understand the phenomena and use this method as a "rule of thumb" and a double check for a fem model
Although I'm in the US, I found this video incredibly insightful. Especially about the soft skills at the end of the video! Definitely something they don't teach at school but is one of the most important skills to develop. Being a new engineer is so interesting because aside from not knowing much at the start, you have to appear like you've got some clue as to what's going on 😅 But over time you come to develop that "engineering judgement" AND you have to be able to communicate that knowledge to everyone (architect, client, your boss). Great video and can't wait to go buy some of the recommended text!
Thanks Daniel, Softskills are somethings that will get you promotions faster. lost of engineers have the technincal skills but not the softskills. you need both but most work needs to go into comminication, hope you enjoy books, thanks for the support.
One thing you missed in the video is a book about the dynamics of structures - which, in my opinion, is the area that not many structural engineers fully comprehend.
Agree a good book around Dynamics is gold, any reccomendation? Also agree most structural engineering over look and do not understand strucutral dynamics. it is really intresting.
@@BrendanHasty There are books like "Structural Dynamics Theory & Computation - Theory and Computation" by Mario Paz or "Dynamics of Structures" by Clough and Penzein. Evident problem with these books are they are too dry, reader wants a book which is lucid in nature.
@@mairajhabib9754 bro I read that Mario Paz book especially at 3D Frame, the book is as good as example question book, it didn't hold too much deep knowledge and only good for seeing some exercises. I recommend book Finite Element Structural Analysis by T. Y. Yang, in rough words this book is good for dummy who want to learn, but the e book one is rare as adamantium. Best one so far for understanding 🗿
I hope there is one engineer in the world who interpretates codes well. Even the EC8 creators avoid difficult questions, but that does not suprise me, because of subject's complexicity.
Hey brendan i recently started as a structural engineer.. Love your videos and learned so much about structural engg from you.. I would like to know are you also well versed with Indian codes and do these books would help me further in my career .. Also would like to add that what books and techniques would prove beneficial to grow my career forward ... Lastly, thanks for your brilliant content :-)
Hi Brendan, the structural engineer's pocket book is one I keep on my desk. It was actually recommended my old mentor who's a structural engineer. Keep up the good work. Malik from Barbados.
Hello Brendan, how are you? I really liked the idea of video, I think it's really useful especially because engineering has a broad range of subjects and every subject has a nearly infinite number of books available. I wanted to thank you for the effort you put in this channel. Videos like this keep me motivated to study and learn new things. Also, I have a suggestion. One month and a half ago I started a collaboration with a foundation which basically is involved in structural health monitoring of infrastructures. I never studied that in university and I think the topics is really interesting because it integrates a ton of different aspects you couldn't get with "simple" structural analysis. Have a nice day (and keep up the good work obv)
Hi Tonio, this is a great suggestion. there are lots of differnt thing I do to quick assess a structure. understand structural mechanics is one thing but where are some. simple things I do to quick assess existing building or FEA models. if you can send me some examples that would be great.
@@BrendanHasty Well, there are a lot of useful references around. "Health Monitoring of Bridges, Helmut Wenzel" was my reference book in my first weeks since it introduces the philosophy behind SHM and provides a lot of examples. There is also an entire chapter where something like 30 case studies are reviewed. I think the main topics that a video on the subject should contain are something like: Philosophy of SHM, sensors and Technologies involved, typical problems to overcome and a quick review of some case studies. I hope this answer can help you
Hi Maggy thanks for the support. I have been look into books around Structural Forensics, a really good podcast is the brady Haywood podcast, covering engineering forenics.
Greetings from Europe. It is funny, how geography affects choosing of classic books for the structural design. Central Europe region is highly influenced by german books and research. A lot of excellent engineers learned their skills designing german facilities and power plants.
thank for your sharing tutorial, could you make a video about sway and non sway frame/column compares to different design codes (Australian, Eurocode, ACI).
Amazing video Brendan!!! I wonder how you manage time to make videos and upload it frequently. It appears that beside an expert in structural engineering you are also excellent in time management. Watching this video i felt that you missed to mention book about Anchorage design.
Hi Amit, you would be amazed how much time you have when you drop netflix. just need to schedule my time. thanks for noticing. Also, I did typical I use Hilt/ramset to help with Anchorage design, but aggree people should look into anchorage theory more.
I think the title of the video should be best text books in structural engineering in Australia. There are definitely better text books based on EC, ACI and AISC. For bridges, the US DOTs have awesome materials.
Hi Ali, about half the books suggest are non country specific and IstructE is from the UK, but agree that there may be better books in some areas. thanks for the suggestion
Hai Brendan .. I have just began my career in structural engineering from India. I am trying to move to UK for a structural Eng .job.. But i am not confident in my knowledge of RCC design , also I am struggling to understand British Codes and Design ... Could you Recommend some Civil Engineering books based on british codes that completely teaches the RCC Analysis & design , based on British Standards so as to clear my basics first ..I would highly appreciate if let me know the books..
Thanks Brendon for this enlighting session. I have a question though. Im doing my final year as a Civil Engineering student and l would like to design a project management software using Python for my final year project. Should l do it?
Hi, how are you Brendan? I inquire if you can provide us with a complete playlist to learn structural design for different buildings and how to use the design programs because I didn't find this content.
@@mairajhabib9754Can’t remember if it does qualitative, but Examples in Structural Analysis by William McKenzie is a really good book too, with many topics in the area.
I have a lot of books especially about concrete, but i didnt read a whole one, only some topics from them, how could people read that quantity of books and have that time for reading, it seems unlogical for me, you need 64358 years to read all these book, can u explain that for me ENG. Brendan, thank u.
Hi Bevo, you dont need to read all books, I constantly refer to the books I mentioned and have read them many times. you just need to pick up books focusing on areas you need to focus on.
I still have the textbooks that I used in college in steel, concrete and analysis classes, and those I did read all the way through. If you buy additional books later now you know where to look in those books to find information to supplement the knowledge you got from your first books. There are a lot of publications available for engineering and nobody has time to read all of them. I have books I've collected that I feel might be useful but I end up only reading the ones I have a need to read and not the ones that I just have an interest in reading.
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A lot of structural design books are available in PDF form online if you do some searching. If you start searching for textbooks and design guides you'll find a lot of them in different subjects.
I keep a folder on my hard drive that contains all of the PDF documents I've collected over many years and I keep this data backed up like I do with all other digital data. I agree that it is very important to have a good method for categorizing these files so you can find things easily. I even have a separate folder linked on the desktop of my computer containing the files that I use the most frequently so I can have direct access to them. Digital documents are even more useful now than ever before with people working from home part time, and working from the office part time. We can't carry all of our books around with us in hardcopy form but we can carry digital versions. That way no matter where I'm working I have access to various manuals and books.
A person should have design guides in the main subjects of steel, concrete and wood, but also analysis and mechanics of materials, and I think there are other subjects and lesser design guides that are also helpful. In the subject of analysis I think books with modern digital analysis principles are useful but also older analysis books with classic (meaning before computers) methods of analysis. Off the top of my head some other books that I find useful are:
Architectural Graphic Standards
Building Design and Construction handbooks
Civil Engineering Formulas and Handbook of Civil Engineering Calculations
ACI Design Handbook (ACI 340 and SP-17)
ACI Detailing Manual (SP-66)
CRSI handbook
PCA simplified design
Design of Welded Structures by Blodgett
Old / historical books about engineering are a great resource to learn about old, antiquated building techniques that are not common anymore / forgotten in time. They are a must if you do renovations of older buildings. Especially in the devlopment of (precast) reinforced concrete a lot of building systems came and went in the early 20th century. Even systems from the 60's and 70's can be very different from the present. A lot of these old systems are not in contemporary publications.
Quote all of this. Also book write before finite elements method and PC calculus, have great analytical method, and you can learn a lot, understand the phenomena and use this method as a "rule of thumb" and a double check for a fem model
pl enlist such books
Although I'm in the US, I found this video incredibly insightful. Especially about the soft skills at the end of the video! Definitely something they don't teach at school but is one of the most important skills to develop.
Being a new engineer is so interesting because aside from not knowing much at the start, you have to appear like you've got some clue as to what's going on 😅 But over time you come to develop that "engineering judgement" AND you have to be able to communicate that knowledge to everyone (architect, client, your boss).
Great video and can't wait to go buy some of the recommended text!
Thanks Daniel, Softskills are somethings that will get you promotions faster. lost of engineers have the technincal skills but not the softskills. you need both but most work needs to go into comminication, hope you enjoy books, thanks for the support.
One thing you missed in the video is a book about the dynamics of structures - which, in my opinion, is the area that not many structural engineers fully comprehend.
Agree a good book around Dynamics is gold, any reccomendation? Also agree most structural engineering over look and do not understand strucutral dynamics. it is really intresting.
@@BrendanHasty I think sir you should suggest us that book😄
@@BrendanHasty
There are books like
"Structural Dynamics Theory & Computation - Theory and Computation" by Mario Paz or "Dynamics of Structures" by Clough and Penzein. Evident problem with these books are they are too dry, reader wants a book which is lucid in nature.
@@mairajhabib9754 bro I read that Mario Paz book especially at 3D Frame, the book is as good as example question book, it didn't hold too much deep knowledge and only good for seeing some exercises.
I recommend book Finite Element Structural Analysis by T. Y. Yang, in rough words this book is good for dummy who want to learn, but the e book one is rare as adamantium. Best one so far for understanding 🗿
I hope there is one engineer in the world who interpretates codes well. Even the EC8 creators avoid difficult questions, but that does not suprise me, because of subject's complexicity.
Hey brendan i recently started as a structural engineer.. Love your videos and learned so much about structural engg from you.. I would like to know are you also well versed with Indian codes and do these books would help me further in my career .. Also would like to add that what books and techniques would prove beneficial to grow my career forward ... Lastly, thanks for your brilliant content :-)
Hi Brendan, the structural engineer's pocket book is one I keep on my desk. It was actually recommended my old mentor who's a structural engineer.
Keep up the good work.
Malik from Barbados.
Hi Malik, if you can only pick up one, it is the one to have. thanks for the continued support.
Great video Brendan! Appreciate all the recommendations!
Hi O.Ivan, thanks for the continued support. glad that you enjoyed.
Hi Brendan, thanks for tha suggestion of books. And very interesting classifications of books too. Keep going.
thanks Deepak for the support. hope you found some books you had not heard of
@@BrendanHasty Exactly. I have found one or two.
Thanks bredan it was very helpful
Keep sharing your valuable knowledge it’s helpful.
Hi Ahmed, glad that you found it helpful. thanks for the support.
Also highly recommend a Mechanics of Materials book in every structural engineer’s library.
And read it. Cover to cover. Often.
Hi Daniel, Roak's covers alot of Mechanics of material. thanks for the suggestion and watching.
Awesome video! I haven’t watched it yet, but it helps on the algorithm😊
Hi Lulian, Thankyou for helping the Algorithm, the support is greatly appreciated
Excellent content, following from Paraguay, can you talk about tall building books and online courses?
Great video, thanks for sharing Brendan! Would be interesting to see a similar video about online tools and resources for structural engineers :)
Hey Tibby, I think that is a great Idea thanks for the suggestion.
Hello Brendan, how are you? I really liked the idea of video, I think it's really useful especially because engineering has a broad range of subjects and every subject has a nearly infinite number of books available. I wanted to thank you for the effort you put in this channel. Videos like this keep me motivated to study and learn new things. Also, I have a suggestion. One month and a half ago I started a collaboration with a foundation which basically is involved in structural health monitoring of infrastructures. I never studied that in university and I think the topics is really interesting because it integrates a ton of different aspects you couldn't get with "simple" structural analysis. Have a nice day (and keep up the good work obv)
Hi Tonio, this is a great suggestion. there are lots of differnt thing I do to quick assess a structure. understand structural mechanics is one thing but where are some. simple things I do to quick assess existing building or FEA models. if you can send me some examples that would be great.
@@BrendanHasty Well, there are a lot of useful references around. "Health Monitoring of Bridges, Helmut Wenzel" was my reference book in my first weeks since it introduces the philosophy behind SHM and provides a lot of examples. There is also an entire chapter where something like 30 case studies are reviewed. I think the main topics that a video on the subject should contain are something like: Philosophy of SHM, sensors and Technologies involved, typical problems to overcome and a quick review of some case studies.
I hope this answer can help you
Hi... thank you for sharing so important information for us... do you have a recommendation for Structure Forensics Engineering? Shalom 🙏
Hi Maggy thanks for the support. I have been look into books around Structural Forensics, a really good podcast is the brady Haywood podcast, covering engineering forenics.
Greetings from Europe. It is funny, how geography affects choosing of classic books for the structural design. Central Europe region is highly influenced by german books and research. A lot of excellent engineers learned their skills designing german facilities and power plants.
Hi agree every where has there fav material. and it is intresting hope everyone manges to pick the same books.
thank for your sharing tutorial, could you make a video about sway and non sway frame/column compares to different design codes (Australian, Eurocode, ACI).
thanks again for the suggestion and supoport
how to allow partition wall heads to expand and contract
with movement of the steel structure
what happened to Steel Designers' Handbook you've recommended last time
It should still be there, it is a good book. Did I miss it.
Preach the word m8. Just want to grow basic knowledge base for everyone, without self gain
Legend
Hi Levi, thanks for the support.
Amazing video Brendan!!! I wonder how you manage time to make videos and upload it frequently. It appears that beside an expert in structural engineering you are also excellent in time management.
Watching this video i felt that you missed to mention book about Anchorage design.
Hi Amit, you would be amazed how much time you have when you drop netflix. just need to schedule my time. thanks for noticing. Also, I did typical I use Hilt/ramset to help with Anchorage design, but aggree people should look into anchorage theory more.
I think the title of the video should be best text books in structural engineering in Australia. There are definitely better text books based on EC, ACI and AISC. For bridges, the US DOTs have awesome materials.
Hi Ali, about half the books suggest are non country specific and IstructE is from the UK, but agree that there may be better books in some areas. thanks for the suggestion
Hai Brendan .. I have just began my career in structural engineering from India. I am trying to move to UK for a structural Eng .job.. But i am not confident in my knowledge of RCC design , also I am struggling to understand British Codes and Design ... Could you Recommend some Civil Engineering books based on british codes that completely teaches the RCC Analysis & design , based on British Standards so as to clear my basics first ..I would highly appreciate if let me know the books..
Thanks Brendon for this enlighting session. I have a question though. Im doing my final year as a Civil Engineering student and l would like to design a project management software using Python for my final year project. Should l do it?
Python is a great programming language to learn and it will be helpful in your futre engineering career.
Tks for sharing !
Thanks for watching!
Thanks Brendan - would you have any recommendations regarding basic and/or advanced FEA concepts/applications specifically for structural engineering?
Hi Edoardo, I am looking to do a specfic video on this. thanks for wathcing.
@@BrendanHasty look forward to it!
@@BrendanHasty I would be happy to contribute to that. Can we talk offline?
Do the TH-cam video on NYC public space the vessel.
trying to collect enough Broll or this. it is every interesting, thanks for the support.
Save everything to Dropbox or equivalent. Worry about the hard drive will be broken one day.
HI the cloud is that way I backup all my data. but it is easier to switch between computer.
Hi, how are you Brendan?
I inquire if you can provide us with a complete playlist to learn structural design for different buildings and how to use the design programs
because I didn't find this content.
This is something you will find at orginsations like IstructE, they have some grear course even if foced on eurocodes it is still helpfull.
I am looking book which can enhance qualitative understanding of behavior of structures and its implications.
Hi Mairaj, I would look into structual mechanic books or mechanics of material.
Check out Understanding Structural Behaviour by David Brohn for qualitative behaviour of structures. Really good book.
@@mil9102 David Brohn book is really remarkable.
Any other book, giving qualitative understanding of various structures
@@mairajhabib9754Can’t remember if it does qualitative, but Examples in Structural Analysis by William McKenzie is a really good book too, with many topics in the area.
Thanks!
thanks for watching Willy Wiranwan
Does this book include analysis also ?, If no then Please create one for second year civil engineering students.😀😀👍
Hi Crimpy, I should cover some booking on FEA, and analysis techniques, thanks for the suggestion.
I have a lot of books especially about concrete, but i didnt read a whole one, only some topics from them, how could people read that quantity of books and have that time for reading, it seems unlogical for me, you need 64358 years to read all these book, can u explain that for me ENG. Brendan, thank u.
Hi Bevo, you dont need to read all books, I constantly refer to the books I mentioned and have read them many times. you just need to pick up books focusing on areas you need to focus on.
@@BrendanHasty thank u brendan❤️❤️❤️
I still have the textbooks that I used in college in steel, concrete and analysis classes, and those I did read all the way through. If you buy additional books later now you know where to look in those books to find information to supplement the knowledge you got from your first books.
There are a lot of publications available for engineering and nobody has time to read all of them. I have books I've collected that I feel might be useful but I end up only reading the ones I have a need to read and not the ones that I just have an interest in reading.
Reynolds Handbook
thanks for the suggestion Alok.
Thank too much ENG
Thanks for the support Mohammed
I like your content but if you just change your accent. thank you for your informations for Me they are great 👍