Table Of ContentLimit State Design of
Steel Structures
Second Edition
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S K Duggal is currently Professor in the Civil Engineering
Department at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology
(MNNIT), Allahabad. He obtained his BE, ME and PhD
degrees from Allahabad University, and has an experience
of more than 36 years of teaching at both undergraduate and
postgraduate levels. He is also the author of the books—Design
of Steel Structures, Surveying Vol. I and Vol. II, published by
McGraw-Hill Education(India) Pvt. Ltd. Apart from this, he has presented and
published numerous research papers in several national and international confer-
ences and journals respectively.
Limit State Design of
Steel Structures
Second Edition
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