Australian Guidebook for Structural Engineers ─ A Guide to Structural Engineering on a Multidiscipline Project

This valuable guide provides basic information for steel, concrete and geotechnical design in accordance with Australian and other relevant international standards. Detailed design items are also given, especially relevant to the mining and oil and gas industries. Examples include machine foundations, pipe racks, and bund design.

Steel design theory is presented with information on fabrication, transportation and cost, along with member, connection and anchor design. Concrete design includes information on construction costs as well as detailed calculations ranging from a simple beam design to the manual production of circular column interaction diagrams. For geotechnics, simple guidance is given on the manual production of calculations for items such as pad footings, piles, retaining walls and slabs. Each chapter also includes recommended drafting details to aid in the creation of design drawings.

More generally, highly useful aids for design engineers include section calculations and force diagrams. Capacity tables cover real-world items such as various slab thicknesses with a range or reinforcement options, commonly used steel sections, and lifting lug capacities. Calculations are given for wind, seismic, vehicular, piping and other loads. User guides are included for Space Gass and Strand7, including a non-linear analysis example for lifting lugs. Users are also directed to popular vendor catalogues to acquire commonly used items, such as steel sections, handrails, grating, grouts, and lifting devices.

This book is an essential tool providing everything necessary for structural design engineers to create detailed and accurate calculations.

Lonnie Pack is a Chartered Professional Engineer through Engineers Australia, a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland, and a member of the Institute or Engineers Australia (MIEAust).

Hed has worked in the Mining and Oil & Gas industries, formerly CEO of the Graduate Development Organisation and subject matter expert for coal seam gas projects at WorleyParsons. He has managed teams of more than twenty people in the design of greenfield projects as well as smaller scale brownfield works. Projects have been delivered via traditional (stick-built) methods as well as modular (pre-assembled) designs.

He has presented on Machine Foundation Design at Engineer’s Australia. Lonnie has led teams in Australia and overseas in the design of gas plants and mining structures. His experience includes

Now at Tetra Tech Proteus he is a Lead Engineer and Project Manager in the brownfield design of mining structures, using advanced technical design skills such as Finite Element Analysis, impact analysis and dynamic design.