Title: Concise, but Too Simplified
Product review: Come on, you need to know much more than what was in this book to be a structural engineer. I bought the 3rd edition right when it was fresh off the press to prepare for the NCEES Structural II exam in April 2006. I didn't take the Structural I exam so I can't say if this book is more tailored to that. However, I have to say I passed in spite of this book. The examples in the book are easy to follow, but for a good portion of them they only cover the easy special cases, not the more elaborate, more complicated variations. For how thin this book is, I think it is outrageously expensive. I was also disappointed that the concrete design aids are not updated to the current code with the revised factors.Another waste of money was the 2003 IBC. They took out all those useful sections from 2000 and just say refer to ASCE-7. You would be fine just to get ASCE-7 for the exam and save some money.
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