New and Improved/The 13th Edition Steel Construction Manual is the one that you've been waiting for.

摘要

What color is your manual? Is it green? Or blue? Or is it red? Maroon? Silver? What about orange? All engineers know what color their manual was when they first learned steel design. All of us have a green book and probably a blue book or a silver book at our disposal. It's likely that somewhere around your office, someone has a red book, too. The color of your steel manual says a lot about you-about your tenure, your history, and your preferred design method. AISC's new 13th Edition Steel Construction Manual was designed to unify the profession with one approach to steel design, so it seems only appropriate that we embrace all the colors of our history by bringing the best parts of our past into the present. ASD and LRFD have been combined into a single design method, and to represent that approach, the color chosen for the new manual is the perfect combination of all the colors of the artist's palette-black.