This book is your one-stop, jargon-free guide to the properties, loads, stresses and tolerance of wood, steel and concrete members. The author's done all the heavy number - crunching for you, so you get instant, ready to apply data on: support reactions; bending and shear streses; deflections; dead and live loads; snow and wind loads; wooden joists, headers and trusses, steel beams and columns, concrete slabs, footings and walls, and much more.