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Historic Steel Construction Manuals
Historic Steel Construction Manuals are only available to AISC members.
Notes about the PDFs:
- The manuals are best viewed using Adobe Reader, which displays a comprehensive table of contents within the application's bookmarks pane.
- Each file was processed using OCR (optical character recognition) software, so the contents are fully text searchable.
- The files vary between 30 MB and 100 MB in size.
Historic Steel Construction Manuals
First Edition
| Printing/Revision | Year | Notes |
| First | 1927 | December, 1927 |
| Second | 1928 | March, 1928 |
| Third | 1928 | May, 1928 |
| Fourth | 1928 | December, 1928 – Fortieth Thousand |
| Fifth | 1929 | April, 1929 – Fifty-fifth Thousand |
| Sixth | 1930 | January, 1930 – Sixty-fifth Thousand |
| Seventh | 1930 | April, 1930 – Seventy-fifth Thousand |
| Eighth | 1930 | December, 1930 – Eighty-fifth Thousand |
| Ninth | 1932 | January, 1932 – Ninety-fifth Thousand |
| Tenth | 1932 | October, 1932 – One hundredth Thousand |
Fifth Edition
| Printing/Revision | Year | Notes |
| First | 1946 | |
| Second | 1947 | |
| Third | 1947 | |
| Fourth | 1947 | |
| Fifth | 1948 | |
| Sixth | 1948 | |
| Seventh | 1948 | |
| Eighth | 1949 | |
| Ninth | 1949 | |
| Tenth | 1950 | |
| Eleventh | 1951 | |
| Twelfth | 1951 | |
| Thirteenth | 1952 | |
| Fourteenth | 1952 | |
| Fifteenth | 1953 | |
| Sixteenth | 1954 | |
| Seventeenth | 1955 | |
| Eighteenth | 1955 | |
| Nineteenth | 1956 | |
| Twentieth | 1956 | |
| Twenty-first | 1957 | |
| Twenty-second | 1957 | |
| Twenty-third | 1958 | |
| Twenty-fourth | 1959 | |
| Twenty-fifth | 1959 | |
| Twenty-sixth | 1960 | |
| Twenty-seventh | 1961 | |
| Twenty-eighth | 1961 | |
| Twenty-ninth | 1962 | |
| Thirtieth | 1962 |
Sixth Edition
| Printing/Revision | Year | Notes |
| First | 1963 | 7/63 with errata |
| First | 1963 | 8/63 with errata |
| First | 1963 | 12/63 with errata |
| First | 1964 | 3/64 with errata |
| First Revised | 1965 | 4/1/65 |
| Second Revised | 1965 | II on spine; 11/1/65 |
| Third Revised | 1966 | III on spine; 3/1/66 |
| Fourth Revised | 1967 | IV on spine; 3/1/67 |
Seventh Edition
| Printing/Revision | Year | Notes |
| First | 1970 | Not available at this time |
| First Revised | 1973 | First Revised Printing |
| First Revised | 1974 | First Revised Printing, Second Impression (1/74) |
| First Revised | 1975 | First Revised Printing, Fourth Impression (12/75) |