Vintage Seelye Design Manual 1

[Stress02]

Is anyone familuar with the Seelye reference book?
I see one one Ebay; is it a worthwhile reference for assessing old structures?

 

[dbuzz]

Some on this thread (thread194-29595) consider it a worthwhile reference. There is a review here (

http://www.icivilengineer.com/Bookshelf/Web_Services/detail.php?ASIN=0471772860).

 

[Lutfi]

I have Volume 1. I think it is one great structural engineering book. It contains many older data, tables and touches almost on every aspect of structural engineering. I enjoy flipping its pages. Most of the text is hand written with many tables and charts.

My wife bought mine in a garage sale for $0.25!!

Regards,


Regards,
Lutfi

 

[minorchord2000]

I also have a copy of it and I treat it like a masterpiece because you will never find that kind of excellence in a reference these days. The allowable stresses do not meet today's codes but the statics and analysis is timeless.

If you can find it, grab at.

 

[Stress02]

I picked one up.