Handbook of Structural Steel Connection Design and Details

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Gain access to the expertise of the top LRFD designers working today--with this superlative book and CD-ROM package

This book not not only gives you the best and latest methods in connection design, it supplies fabricated examples on the CD-ROM that you can use for instant application and configuration of your own designs. Featuring a broad range of design methods and details, the Handbook demonstrates the newest techniques and materials in welded joint design and production...seismically resistant connnections...partially restrained connections...steel decks...inspection and quality control...and more.

You get the newest connection designs based on load and resistance factor AISC design methods; special methods for seismic connection design; new material on fracture and fatigue design; improved methods of connection force analysis for various structures; 400 illustrations that show you how to do the job right; and much more.

Customer Reviews:

braced frames and trusses covered.......2007-09-04

Had the information I was looking for in braced frame design using the uniform force method. A large portion of the book is dedicated to braced frame connections and truss connections which a resource I was looking for.

This is an example book........2001-10-11

If you have some basic knowledge of LRFD design and connection. This would be an OK book. It contains so many example in many load cases and connection type. All of them are hot rolled steel or high force connection. In example it dose not tell how to retrive this equation, reference to variables, and how to use this equation.. you only have to guess. If you guess right, then it can be applicable to real construction.

For engineers looking to make connections..........2001-03-27

Tamboli's connection handbook complements the AISC Connections Manual beautifully. In a clear, easy-to-follow way, it addresses all of the major procedures for connecting structural elements and the philosophy behind them. The handbook uses thoughtful examples and good photos to explain how connections work and are built. The tips it gives, especially for connections to composite members and space trusses, are particularly helpful in practical design. I have never seen a more complete, quality connections manual, and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to improve their knowledge of the latest connection techniques.

Review is just review.......2000-05-14

I am a civil engineer. I have been studying and designing steel structures for years. In Vietnam, this type of structure is not popular, and nobody knows how to make it good, make it beautiful.

The only thing I really want right now is to be the one of the best in area of designing steel structure.

So, this book may bring me some good knowledge, some new idea. That's all. I do want more information, like a sample of pages, picture, drawings, what can be included in this book

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Packag ing is an important factor in any retail environment and a key element in most marketing strategies. Consumers react immediately to package shapes, and are influenced by them when making buying decisions. Different product categories are often easy to recognize by their characteristic form, for example chocolate boxes or milk cartons. On the other hand, a manufacturer of an exclusive product, such as jewellery or perfume, may deliberately choose an unusual, eye-catching form. This completely revised edition of our bestseller serves as a reference for structural design. All designs have been selected on account of their functional relevance and acceptability, and are stored in eps vector format on the enclosed CD-Rom. They can be easily scaled and modified to suit specific requirements.

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I like the red one more.........2005-07-15

I like the original red structural package designs by Haresh Pathak.

dummy and wrong?.......2004-07-27

I would recommend this book to everyone who enjoys crafts and modeling, or just to everybody who is curios about the making of things, because this book contains ready-to-use printable and editable (look for the cd-rom) patterns for the most used types of packaging on the market.
Be aware that this book is just a collection, a dummy, with no explanations.
But unfortunately, all the examples I have printed directly from the source files were somehow misfit and ended to be weird useless objects (stuff for 'The Design of Everyday Things' by Donald A. Norman, if you like).
I am not sure if this problem is in my copy of the book (an 'errata corrige'?), I hope that you'll be more lucky than me.

To all design students I would recommend this book, instead: 'The Packaging Designer's Book of Patterns' by Lazlo Roth, George L. Wybenga

ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques (Adobe Developer Library)

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A pick for any advanced programmer's library.
Excellent
Great Design Pattern Resource for ActionScript 3 Developers
Worse than uninformative, it's actually mis-leading
Very clear book on Design Patterns for ActionScript developers

ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques (Adobe Developer Library)
William Sanders , and Chandima Cumaranatunge
Manufacturer: Adobe Dev Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0596528469

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Now that ActionScript is reengineered from top to bottom as a true object-oriented programming (OOP) language, reusable design patterns are an ideal way to solve common problems in Flash and Flex applications. If you're an experienced Flash or Flex developer ready to tackle sophisticated programming techniques with ActionScript 3.0, this hands-on introduction to design patterns is the book you need.

ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns takes you step by step through the process, first by explaining how design patterns provide a clear road map for structuring code that actually makes OOP languages easier to learn and use. You then learn about various types of design patterns and construct small abstract examples before trying your hand at building full-fledged working applications outlined in the book. Topics in ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns include:

Key features of ActionScript 3.0 and why it became an OOP language
OOP characteristics, such as classes, abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism
The benefits of using design patterns
Creational patterns, including Factory and Singleton patterns
Structural patterns, including Decorator, Adapter, and Composite patterns
Behavioral patterns, including Command, Observer, Strategy, and State patterns
Multiple design patterns, including Model-View-Controller and Symmetric Proxy designs

During the course of the book, you'll work with examples of increasing complexity, such as an e-business application with service options that users can select, an interface for selecting a class of products and individual products in each class, an action game application, a video record and playback application, and many more. Whether you're coming to Flash and Flex from Java or C++, or have experience with ActionScript 2.0, ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns will have you constructing truly elegant solutions for your Flash and Flex applications in no time.

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A pick for any advanced programmer's library........2007-10-05

College-level and specialty computer libraries covering web development will find William Sanders & Chandima Cumaranatunge's ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns an excellent acquisition, covering common problems in Flash and Flex applications and providing developers with the tools necessary to adopt superior design patterns. From key components of ActionScript 3.0 and its characteristics to the benefits of developing both structural and behavioral patterns, ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 is a pick for any advanced programmer's library.

Excellent.......2007-09-28

Great book! The concepts shown are useful not only to action script but to any language at the enterprise development level.

Great Design Pattern Resource for ActionScript 3 Developers.......2007-08-31

This book is a solid resource for developers who want to fully embrace OOP concepts in their Flash and Flex projects.

With examples based on traditional GoF patterns, the authors demonstrate the use of OOP specifically for ActionScript 3 development. For someone like me, who's just getting their head around AS3 and large-scale RIAs, this book is invaluable.

It starts out with a good introduction to OOP, helping to familiarize those who are just getting started or who don't quite think in OOP terms just yet, with the over-arching principles. With AS getting closer and closer to Java structure, this introduction is especially helpful for AS developers. For those already comfortable thinking in OOP-terms, you may want to skip this section and dive into the meat of the book, which is quite substantial.

Each chapter addresses a specific design pattern, analyzes it's structure and benefits, and provides both an abstract example and real-world examples. This not only gives you the full understanding of the pattern, but also gives you an idea of how to implement it in your projects. This makes this book both a great overall OOP reference, but also a practical one.

If you are familiar with OOP, or just wrapping your head around it, I highly recommend this book to take your Flash and Flex projects to the next level.

Worse than uninformative, it's actually mis-leading.......2007-08-28

My biggest complaint with this book is that the authors basically just took the design patterns found in Java and C++ and re-implemented them to run under ActionScript 3 (AS3). The list is comprehensive, but it's clear that the authors don't "think in AS3".

In several core ways, AS3 is very different than Java and even more so with respect to C++. For instance, the event model is baked into the language and asynchronous programming is a different style. Also, XML and XPath are native constructs in ActionScript 3, not libraries like they are in other languages. These differences (among others) imply that some of the original Gang of Four (GoF) and Java patterns manifest themselves differently and some patterns don't apply at all. There are a few places in the book where the authors use the built-in events infrastructure and few other native features, but it's clear that they don't think in AS3. It seems like they think in Java.

For instance, the observer pattern is one of the core GoF and HeadFirst patterns. However, the native event capability in AS3 serves the same purpose. Rather than show you how/why to use the native event capability, this book happily shows you an AS3 translation of the GoF/HeadFirst observer pattern and never tells you to use the built-in event capability instead. In contrast, the Joey Lott and Danny Patterson book from Adobe Press, does not have a section on the observer pattern, but there is a chapter on "WORKING WITH EVENTS".

The above problem would be enough for me to recommend that you not buy this book but it gets worse. This book is not even great at teaching you how to think in design patterns. To be fair, neither is the original GoF design patterns book nor is the Lott/Patterson book. The best book for this purpose is the HeadFirst book. Its examples are Java but, the HeadFirst book walks you through application evolution which really makes the case for why the patterns are useful. The HeadFirst book also includes exercises and discussion as well as a quirky style that really make the concepts sink in so you learn to recognize when to use each pattern.

If you are an AS3 programmer who is already familiar with design patterns, just get the Lott/Patterson book. If you are new to design patterns, get the HeadFirst book AND the Lott/Patterson book.

Very clear book on Design Patterns for ActionScript developers.......2007-07-26

This book tackles the rather advanced topic of writing reusable OOP code for ActionScript 3.0 targeting intermediate ActionScript developers. The book organizes its topics in a way similar to the book "Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by Erich Gamma et al - also known as the Gang of Four. In spite of its target audience, the first part of the book contains an introduction to both design patterns and object orientation to assist those readers with minimal object-oriented programming experience. More advanced users may want to skip the review of OOP, but go over the materials on design patterns. Parts II, III and IV are the three major parts of the book. They examine fundamental design patterns, and organize the patterns into creational, structural and behavioral categories. Representative design patterns are included in each part, but every single design pattern from the book by Gamma and his associates is not included since these other patterns are not very relevant to ActionScript, plus Gamma's book is considered the definitive reference on the subject.

Each chapter on design patterns is organized in a similar matter both to clarify understanding the purpose of a design pattern and how to use it and to make the book more uniform and therefore well-suited as a reference. The following is the basic outline of each of the chapters on design patterns:

1. What is the pattern?
2. Key features of the pattern
3. The formal model of the pattern including a class diagram
4. Key OOP concepts found in the pattern
5. Minimalist abstract example
6. Applied examples

You will need either Flash CS3 or Flex 2 to work with the program examples in this book. All the applications were developed in Flash IDE, so Flex 2 developers will need to make modifications, especially where certain features were developed using Flash drawing tools and components. A few examples use Flash Media Server 2 (FMS2). Thoe examples can be created using the Developer's version of FMS2 that you can download from Adobe. You will need either a Windows or Linux OS to run Flash Media Server 2. Otherwise, you can skip the examples with FMS2 if you like and not lose much. The following is the detailed table of contents:

Part I. CONSTANT CHANGE
1. Object-Oriented Programming, Design Patterns, and ActionScript 3.0
The Pleasure of Doing Something Well
OOP Basics
Abstraction
Encapsulation
Inheritance
Polymorphism
Principles of Design Pattern Development
Program to Interfaces over Implementations
Favor Composition
Maintenance and Extensibility Planning
Your Application Plan: It Ain't You Babe
Part II. CREATIONAL PATTERNS
2. Factory Method Pattern
What Is the Factory Method Pattern?
Abstract Classes in ActionScript 3.0
Minimalist Example
Hiding the Product Classes
Example: Print Shop
Extended Example: Color Printing
Key OOP Concepts Used in the Factory Method Pattern
Example: Sprite Factory
Example: Vertical Shooter Game
Summary
3. Singleton Pattern
What Is the Singleton Pattern?
Key OOP Concepts Used with the Singleton Pattern
Minimalist Abstract Singleton
When to Use the Singleton Pattern
Summary
Part III. STRUCTURAL PATTERNS
4. Decorator Pattern
What Is the Decorator Pattern?
Key OOP Concepts Used with the Decorator Pattern
Minimalist Abstract Decorator
Applying a Simple Decorator Pattern in Flash: Paper Doll
Decorating - The right and wrong way
Dynamic Selection of Concrete Components and Decorations: A Hybrid Car Dealership
Summary
5. Adapter Pattern
What Is the Adapter Pattern?
Object and Class Adapters
Key OOP Concepts in the Adapter Pattern
Example: Car Steering Adapter
Extended Example: Steering the Car Using a Mouse
Example: List Display Adapter
Extended Example: Displaying the O'Reilly New Books List
Summary
6. Composite Pattern
What Is the Composite Pattern?
Minimalist Example of a Composite Pattern
Key OOP Concepts in the Composite Pattern
Example: Music Playlists
Example: Animating Composite Objects Using Inverse Kinematics
Using Flash's Built-in Composite Structure: the Display List
Summary
Part IV. BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS
7. Command Pattern
What Is the Command Pattern?
Minimalist Example of a Command Pattern
Key OOP Concepts in the Command Pattern
Minimalist Example: Macro Commands
Example: Number Manipulator
Extended Example: Sharing Command Objects
Extended Example: Implementing Undo
Example: Podcast Radio
Extended Example: Dynamic Command Object Assignment
Summary
8. Observer Pattern
What Is the Observer Pattern?
Key OOP Concepts Used with the Observer Pattern
Minimalist Abstract Observer
Example: Adding States and Identifying Users
Dynamically Changing States
Example: Working with Different Data Displays
Summary
9. Template Method Pattern
What Is the Template Method Pattern?
Key OOP Concepts Used with the Template Method
Minimalist Example: Abstract Template Method
Employing Flexibility in the Template Method
Selecting and Playing Sound and Video
Hooking It Up
Summary
10. State Pattern
Design Pattern to Create a State Machine
Key OOP Concepts Used with the State Pattern
Minimalist Abstract State Pattern
Video Player Concrete State Application
Expanding the State Design: Adding States
Adding More States and Streaming Capabilities
Summary
11. Strategy Pattern
What Is the Strategy Pattern?
Key OOP Concepts Used with the Strategy Pattern
Minimalist Abstract State Pattern
Adding More Concrete Strategies and Concrete Contexts
Working with String Strategies
Summary
Part V. MULTIPLE PATTERNS
12. Model-View-Controller Pattern
What Is the Model-View-Controller (MVC) Pattern?
Communication Between the MVC Elements
Embedded Patterns in the MVC
Minimalist Example of an MVC Pattern
Key OOP Concepts in the MVC Pattern
Example: Weather Maps
Extended Example: Infrared Weather Maps
Example: Cars
Custom Views
Adding a Chase Car
Summary
13. Symmetric Proxy Pattern
Simultaneous Game Moves and Outcomes
The Symmetric Proxy Pattern
Key OOP Concepts Used with the Symmetric Proxy
The Player Interface
The Referee
Information Shared Over the Internet
Player-Proxy Classes
Classes and Document Files Support
Summary

Structural Package Designs (Pepin Press Design Book Series)

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the smallest book on my coffee table
Good Book. Highly Recommended
Show ME!
fantastic!
Hot lovin'!

Structural Package Designs (Pepin Press Design Book Series)
Haresh Pathak
Manufacturer: Knickerbocker Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9054960515

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the smallest book on my coffee table.......2004-07-16

it is my guests' favorite coffee table book, it is about nothing and everything. The next best thing would be to have the plans on CD so that when the need arises, its plug and print, cut out and VOILA.

Good Book. Highly Recommended.......2002-10-03

This book is especially helpful if you're a design student wanting to explore the field in packaging design. It has almost all the patterns of boxes and die cuts of shelf displays, etc. PS: If you have any contacts in Europe or Asia, ask them to get it for you, it's way much cheaper.

Show ME!.......2002-07-27

PLEASE, PLEASE, Give me a chance to LOOK INSIDE!
I have not read it. I do not consider my rating accurate, because I can't judge this book by its cover.

fantastic!.......2000-08-19

I found this book to be phenomenal: ANY type of package design available on the market is included here. All one has to do is enlarge the picture's scale on a photocopier and use that as a template to build the sturdy designs. For someone who enjoys crafts or modeling, this little book packs a powerful punch. . .

Hot lovin'!.......2000-05-25

I got my wife this book for valentine's day. It's definitely the structural design equivalent of a Barry White CD and a bottle of wine.

Western Woods Use Book: Structural Data and Design Tables (With Update Package 1987)

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Western Woods Use Book: Structural Data and Design Tables (With Update Package 1987)
Western Wood Product Association
Manufacturer: Western Wood Products Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Ring-bound

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ASIN: 096009122X

Incorporation of Sweep in a Transonic Fan Design Using a 3D Blade-Row Geometry Package Intended for Aero-Structural-Manufacturing Optimization

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Incorporation of Sweep in a Transonic Fan Design Using a 3D Blade-Row Geometry Package Intended for Aero-Structural-Manufacturing Optimization

Manufacturer: Storming Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423563905

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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A095143. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: A new 3D blade row geometry package was developed and implemented. In the new representation the blade is described by six Bezier surfaces two of which represent the pressure and suction surfaces with sixteen points each. The leading and trailing edges are each represented by two Bezier surfaces. Only one extra parameter is required (in addition to the pressure and suction surfaces parameters) to define each of the leading and trailing edge surfaces. Blade geometry manipulation in this format is easily implemented. A change to one surface location affects the surrounding area inversely proportional to the distance from the moved point, creating a smooth variation in geometry, free of waviness. The geometry generated is easy to handle with CAD/CAM programs without any conversion or approximation. The representation was applied to an existing transonic fan geometry to investigate effects of sweep. Results were obtained for the effect of forward and backward sweep on the aerodynamic performance, and the associated effect on centrifugal stress levels was obtained. The investigation demonstrated the suitability of the package to be incorporated into a multi-disciplinary design optimization process.

Microcomputer Based Primer on Structural Behavior (Book Disk Package)

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Microcomputer Based Primer on Structural Behavior (Book Disk Package)
James Lefter , and Thomas J., Jr. Bergin
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Trade
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Apollo experience report: Structural loads due to maneuvers of the command and service module/lunar module (NASA technical note)

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Apollo experience report: Structural loads due to maneuvers of the command and service module/lunar module (NASA technical note)
Michael J Rutkowski
Manufacturer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; [For sale by the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, Springfield, Virginia 22151]
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00073EL50

Research related to improved computer aided design software package semi-annual status report, April 1, 1986 - October 1, 1986 (SuDoc NAS 1.26:179668)

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Research related to improved computer aided design software package semi-annual status report, April 1, 1986 - October 1, 1986 (SuDoc NAS 1.26:179668)
William H. Walston
Manufacturer: National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Technical Information Service, distributor
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00010PH5C

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