Indispensable Books for Structural Engineers

[CWEngineer]

Are there any handbooks, guides or books out there that you guys think are indispensable for a Structural Engineer and its a must have.

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[whyun]

For geotechnical, I can't think of any book better than "Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice" by Karl Terzaghi

 

[bjb]

can anyone recommend some good references for light gauge steel design? thanks

 

[vooter]

The AISI "Cold-Formed Steel Framing Design Guide" is pretty good, but you need to have the AISI Cold-Formed Steel Design Manual as a companion (or vice-versa). I have a 1962 copy of the Design Manual and a 2001 copy of the Design Guide; the former has lots of neat derivation of moment of inertia of lines... That, I'm pretty sure, are also provided in Blodget's Design of Weldments.