METAL BUILDING FOUNDATION ENGINEERING AND ANCHOR DESIGN: A Practical Guide to Structural Load Transfer, Foundation Systems, Reinforced Concrete ... Detailing, and Construction Practice - Couverture souple

Edrick, Ph.D., Corbett J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798176903638

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

When a metal building foundation is subjected to high uplift, overturning, eccentric loading, difficult ground conditions, or heavily loaded anchor connections, understanding the complete load path is essential for developing a safe, stable, and constructible design.


This Metal Building Foundation Engineering and Anchor Design is a practical, comprehensive guide to the analysis, design, detailing, and construction of foundations and anchorage systems for metal buildings. It connects structural engineering, geotechnical principles, reinforced concrete design, and steel to concrete load transfer, providing a systematic path from building reactions to completed foundation systems.


What This Book Helps You Master:

• Metal building systems, structural behavior, load paths, support reactions, load combinations, and governing design conditions.
• Geotechnical investigation, bearing resistance, settlement, groundwater, difficult ground conditions, and soil structure interaction.
• Foundation system selection, including isolated and combined footings, strap foundations, grade beams, mats, piers, piles, and drilled shafts.
• Reinforced concrete footing and pedestal design, including flexure, one way shear, punching shear, reinforcement, development, and detailing.
• Foundation stability under compression, uplift, sliding, overturning, eccentric loading, biaxial loading, and lateral forces.
• Anchor rod and anchor group design for tension, shear, moment, torsion, combined loading, concrete breakout, pullout, pryout, and edge effects.
• Column bases, base plates, grout, shear lugs, friction, bearing, and other steel to concrete load transfer mechanisms.
• Special foundation conditions involving high wind, seismic actions, large span buildings, cranes, industrial loads, repeated loading, and thermal effects.
• Foundation drawings, anchor placement, construction tolerances, inspection, testing, quality control, repair, strengthening, and rehabilitation.
• Integrated design examples, engineering calculations, design checklists, documentation practices, and practical project coordination.

For structural and civil engineers, engineering designers, consultants, metal building professionals, advanced engineering students, and technical practitioners, this guide provides a practical framework for understanding how the steel superstructure, anchorage, reinforced concrete foundation, and supporting ground function as one integrated system.


Develop stronger foundation design skills, interpret structural reactions with confidence, evaluate anchorage and load transfer systematically, and create practical designs that account for strength, stability, serviceability, durability, and constructability. Get your copy today and build the engineering knowledge needed for reliable metal building foundation and anchor design.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798176903638
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 254
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg