Steel design tools

• Strucutral steel design through interactive figures
  
  This set of web-based applets illustrate core concepts for an undergraduate structural steel design course by connecting AISC Specification equations and structural engineering concepts to interactive plots, figures, diagrams, and animations. Students can explore the relationships between various parameters, such as member dimensions, applied loads, steel shapes, and material types. While changing the parameters of a figure, the graphics update in real time, giving instant feedback about the changes occurring in the given scenario.
   
• Visualize Buckling: The Interactive Buckling Mode Library
  
  The Visualize Buckling project, led by Professors Ron Ziemian and Constance W. Ziemian of Bucknell University in collaboration with Professor Siwei Liu of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, aims to give engineering educators and students of all ages access to models that visually demonstrate different buckling modes.
  
  Buckling can be a complex strength limit state that can occur in various forms--local, flexural (bending), torsional (twisting), lateral-torsional, or flexural-torsional--depending on factors such as member length, cross-section, material properties, and loading and support conditions.
   
• Web-Based 3D Model Viewer for Illustrating Concepts in Structural Steel
  
  This three-dimensional web-based model viewer allows students to view and interact with a collection of steel connections using their smartphones or web browser. Students can view the connection, examine different limit states in action, and review the related design drawings and calculations.
    
• First AISC steel manual, 1927
   
• AISC Design Examples
  
  Companion to the AISC steel construction manual, Volume 1: Design Examples - for use in first semester structural steel design classes - version 16.0
   
• Shapes Database v16.0
  
  The AISC Shapes Database v16.0 (Version 16.0) is a Microsoft Excel table including section dimensions and properties consistent with the AISC Steel Construction Manual, 16th Edition.

Steel links

• AISC
• Modern Steel Construction Magazine
• Cold-formed steel (AISI)
• Steel Joist Institute
• United Steel Deck
• Corrugated Steel Deck
• Misc. steel links
• Nucor Steel
• Steel making
• Continuous casting

Technical organizations, codes, etc.

• State Board of Arch. and Engr. Examiners
• ASCE
• AASHTO
• BOCA National Building Code
• Standard Building Code
• Uniform Building Code
• International Building Code
• ASTM
• American National Standards
• NCEES
• West TNSEA
• National Council of Structural Engineers Associations

Historial papers

• V. H. Cochrane (1922). "Rules for rivet hole deduction in tension members." Engineering News-Record.
   
• G. W. Pinkham and W. G. Hansell (1978). "An Introduction to Load and Resistance Factor Design for Steel Buildings." Engineering Journal, American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).
   
• T. V. Galambos (1981). "Load and Resistance Factor Design." Engineering Journal, American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).
   
• S. Zoruba and B. Dekker (2005). "A Historical and Technical Overview of the C_b Coefficient in the AISC Specifications." Engineering Journal, American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).