Engineering Sign Structures: An Introduction to Analysis and Design

This comprehensive text more thanmeets the demand within the sign industry for a book on the structuralengineering of signs. Sign companies, structural engineers and public agenciescharged with regulating building construction will all benefit from thedetailed contents: engineering perspective, analysis, practices, history; loadcalculations for signs exposed to all types of environmental conditions;freestanding sign structures, load effects, resultants and columns;connections, structural bolts and welds, column splices, base plates and anchorbolts; footings for sign columns, soils, structural concrete, pier and spreadfootings; internal sign cabinet frames, cantilever arms and torsion beams;building signs, wall sign anchorage, wooden post signs; computer aidedengineering, spreadsheets, and finite element analysis. The book also includesthe fundamental mathematics for readers not already familiar with engineeringcalculations. With hundreds of figures, tables and equations, Engineering SignStructures has become the standard reference for both the sign and structuralengineering industries.