Provides a detailed interpretation of the AISC Specification and illustrates the specification requirements with over 100 design examples and detailed step-by-step solutions. It reflects current design procedures and provides concise solution techniques for design problems.

Intended for a wide audience including practicing engineers, candidates taking the professional engineering examinations, undergraduate and graduate students attending an LRFD class, and newly graduated engineers who have been taught the Allowable Stress Design (ASD) method and who are required to be familiar with the LRFD method.