Part 1. The history of steel construction -- Lines of evolution in building with iron and steel -- Iron: the material of the Industrial Revolution -- Educating for iron -- 200 years of jointing and styling with iron and steel -- Cast iron elements - Columns, beams, arches -- Suspended constructions - Chains, rods, cables, nets -- The principle of the truss - Wrought iron as a prerequisite -- The truss as a beam - Trusses in multistorey construction -- Beams in bending - Rigid frame, braced frame, "tube" -- Building systems from Paxton to Fuller -- Synopsis of developments -- Part 2. The material steel -- The material and its manufacture -- Turning the material into semifinished products -- The subsequent processing and machining of the semifinished products -- The properties of steel -- Part 3. Steel construction technology -- Surface treatments -- Anti-corrosion measures -- Fire protection -- Thermal insulation -- Sound insulation in steelwork -- Erection and dismantling -- Recycling -- Part 4. Shaping and connecting semifinished products to form primary components -- Shaping and connecting semifinished products to form primary components -- Jointing and connecting: the different types of construction -- Elementary stresses and strains: linear members -- Elementary stresses and strains: planar members -- The detailing of openings and the transfer of forces -- The subsoil as part of the construction: foundations for steel structures -- Part 5. The formation of structures by assembling primary components -- The formation of structures by assembling primary components -- The loadbearing structure as part of the whole construction -- Loads and forces -- Structures: stability, serviceability and design -- Two-dimensional loadbearing systems -- Three-dimensional frames and continua -- Part 6. Built examples.

Built examples in detail Overview of examples 1-54 -- Appendix -- References -- Directives and standards for structural steelwork -- Index -- Picture credits.