Serviceability Design
Considerations
MICHAEL WEST AND JAMES FISHER
Computerized Structural Design, Inc.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
with contributions from
LAWRENCE G. GRIFFIS
Walter P. Moore and Associates
Austin, Texas
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF STEEL CONSTRUCTION, INC.
for Steel Buildings
Second Edition
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