The Publication of this new edition of Harry Parker's 55-year-old book is a testimony to the endurance of its popularity; a notable phenomenon in the face of the steady march of technological advances and changes over the period.while the attempt has been made in each new edition to bring the work into reasonable relationship to current conditions,the greater effort has always been concentrated on preserving whatever is enduring and apparently fundamentally sound in its content and presentation.
The fundamental purposes and basic style of the work indeed remain essentially as Professor Parker described them in the preface to his 1938 edition,which follows.The primary focus is pragmatic with respect to the concerns of the designers and constructors of buildings.The book presents a minimum of fundamental structural mechanics and a digest of the basic issues regarding common forms of construction in the major structural materials of wood,steel,concrete,and masonry.
Part 1. Principles of structural mechanics
Part 2. wood construction
Part 3. Steel consturction
Part 4. Concrete and masonry structures
Part 5. Strength Design
Part 6. Structural systems for buildings