Help! P.E. Exam Structural Steel and Highway Capacity book

[breezeear]

Dear Engineer Friends:

I am desperately looking for the following information for several weeks already. Your recommendation is really appreciated.

I am reading Linderbuger's Civil Reference Manual for my P.E. exam next month.

But for the Structural Steel topic, I still can't find any other book that have the beam dimension and property Linderbuger used in his book. For example, for a W30x124 beam, it has an Ix=5360 in^4. I have a steel designer's manual(6Ed) on my table, but it has no such information.

An AISC manual is $200 dollars in Amazon and it is too expensive for me. Can anybody recommend anyother cheap book which is good for the exam, at least including the beam dimension and properties infromation?

Also,for the Highway Capacity Interchange design, the design need adjustment factors including lane with, bus block, right-left turns, etc.. Does any other book except the Highway Capacity Manual by TRB have these tables?

THANKS.

 

[breezeear]

I tried to buy the AISC construction manual from ebay. All of them are too old. I am not sure if they are useful (for the exam).

 

[HgTX]

AISC is pretty much THE book for section properties. How did you get through civil engineering school without acquiring a copy?

I've lent mine out several times to people taking the PE exam. Surely you must know someone who has one you can borrow?

Don't blame me if I turn out to be wrong, but I can't imagine that you'll need the Highway Capacity Manual for the morning session, and I assume you'll be doing Geotech rather than Transportation for the afternoon. Get a sample exam from NCEES to see the level of question to expect.

For the morning I used mostly the Lindeburg book, with quick glances at the AISC manual and ACI-318. It's good to have your foundations and soil mechanics textbooks as well, and I found myself wishing for my environmental engineering textbook.

Hg

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[LHA]

I am not giving anything away here, check out the am and pm scopes as defined by NCEES.

I agree with Hg on the last two points: unless you are taking Trans pm, you won't need that level of expertise on the Trans am.

Likewise, unless you take the structural pm (since you have listed yourself as Geo., I presume that will be your pm choice), I think a general reference on I, J, r xc, etc. will suffice.

I also relied almost soley on my Lindberg, especially the Quick Ref. For the am, you really don't need in-depth details on any given discipline. For the pm, take specific refs for your depth exam. Leave all the other stuff in the attic where it's been since college.

Remember: The Chinese ideogram for “crisis” is comprised of the characters for “danger” and “opportunity.”
-Steve

 

[breezeear]

Hi, Guys:
Thanks so much for all the information.