Key Features of the Third Edition:

- Updated to conform to the 1999 Load and Resistance Factor (LRFD) Design Specification and to the third edition of the LRFD Manual of Steel Contruction
- Includes approximately 500 homework problems. These have been revised, expanded, and update from the previous edition.
- INSTEP32 computer software included. Helps students electronically solve many of the design problems presented in teh text
- A new chapter entitled "Design of Steel Building Systems" has been added. As a part of this chapter, the nationally used commercial software package SAP2000 is introduced and used. A student version of the software is included with the textbook.

Chapter 1 Introduction to Structural Steel Design
Chapter 2 Specifications, Loads, and Methods of Design
Chapter 3 Analysis of Tension Members
Chapter 4 Design of Tension Members
Chapter 5 Introduction to Axially Loaded Compression Members
Chapter 6 Design of Axially Loaded Columns
Chapter 7 Design of Axially Loaded Compression Members, Continued