Steel Design Links

AISI Construction: Cold-Formed Steel Design Links

American Institute of Steel Construction
Publishes Manual of Steel Construction with both ASD and LRFD methods, Steel Design Guide Series, Modern Steel Construction, and Engineering Journal. Offers seminars and certification programs.

American Society of Civil Engineers
Publishes Minimum Design Loads for Building and other Structures and technical journals, and provides seminars.

Association for Iron and Steel Technology
Publishes Pocket Book of Standard Wrought Steels. Assumed the development and or/maintenance of standard steels from AISI. Provides information about standard grades of carbon and alloy steel bars, blooms, billets, slabs and rods with specified ladle chemistry ranges and limits (e.g., AISI 1040 steel).

ASTM International
Publishes material standards, such as steel standards.

Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute
Publishes design guides, technical notes and newsletters.

Home Innovation Research Labs
Provides building product catalogs.

Metal Building Manufacturers Association
Publishes Low Rise Building Systems Manual, offers certifications programs and seminars.

National Association of Home Builders
Offers educational courses and seminars for building professionals.

Specialty Steel Industry of North America
Provides information about the development and/or maintenance of material standards of stainless steels.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Provides various design guides.

Wei-Wen Yu Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures
Publishes catalog of Cold-Formed Steel Design Software, newsletters, and proceedings of the International Specialty Conferences on Cold-Formed Steel Structures. Houses an extensive library of archived publications and reports, including pre-2007 editions of the AISI Specification, Commentary and Design Manual. These publications and others are available free of charge in PDF format from the Technical Library of the Wei-Wen Yu Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures.