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Structural Design And Drawing: Reinforced Concrete And Steel is a helpful guide for structural and civil engineering aspirants. Summary Of The Book Structural Design And Drawing: Reinforced Concrete And Steel is a helpful guide for anyone interested in civil and structural engineering, especially professional engineers. Practicing engineers will find handy examples and concepts in this book. Structural Design And Drawing: Reinforced Concrete And Steel contains various examples of designs which are concurrent with updated standard codes in India for structures made of concrete and steel. The book contains various insightful chapters along with helpful lists of common abbreviations and symbols. Some topics covered in the book include Columns and footing, Design principles for structures based on reinforced concrete, Mill bents, Staircases, Roof trusses and Plate girders. Proper importance is given to SI units along with examples from examination papers which are of immense help to students. Structural Design And Drawing: Reinforced Concrete And Steel also contains other helpful topics like Retaining walls, Portal frames, Reinforced concrete T-beam and slab floor system, Composite bridge deck systems, Flexural members and design principles. This book is slated to be an insightful and illuminating read for students and engineering professionals. About N. Krishna Raju N. Krishna Raju is an author, educator and writer of research papers and monographs. N. Krishna Raju has also written Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Design of Bridges, Design of Concrete Mixes, Prestressed Concrete Bridges and Numerical Methods for Engineering Problems. As a Commonwealth scholar, he completed his Ph.D from the University of Leeds. N. Krishna Raju works as a Civil Engineering Emeritus Professor at the MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology in Bangalore. He holds a BE degree from the University of Mysore and a M.Sc (Engg) degree from the University of Madras. He has been a teacher at Coventry’s Lanchester College of Technology, College of Engineering Guindy, Bangalore’s Indian Institute of Science, and Regional Engineering College. He has also worked at the University of Basrah as a Visiting Professor. N. Krishna Raju also holds membership at the Institution of Engineers, Institution of Structural Engineers and Indian Concrete Institute. Various awards have been conferred on him including the Naghadi Award, Birla Super Endowment award, Oomen Memorial Prize and Institution of Engineers prize.