Cold-formed steel in tall buildings /

A monograph that deals with the application of cold-formed steel (including stainless) in tall buildings, based primarily on materials from a 1986 workshop, and produced and edited by a group of engineers, among whom Yu is very distinguished. The book discusses the supplemental building role of cold-formed steel and presents the issues related to design and construction in such applications, based on a heterogeneous combination of US, Canadian, and European practices. Unfortunately, however, it barely discusses the effect of positive mechanical interlocking between steel and concrete in composite deck construction; this forms a significant part of the effort undertaken under the auspices of the American Society of Civil Engineers to develop a state-of-the-art standard for the structural design and construction of composite slabs, to be published in 1993. This is the more striking because a few members of the team of authors were involved in developing this new standard. In spite of this apparent deficiency, the book will prove to be very useful to engineers involved in the design and construction of tall buildings. The illustrations are of good quality, the index is exhaustive, and the bibliography is almost complete. Community college; pre-professional; professional. P. K. Basu; Vanderbilt University