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Official Council publications include principally the Technical Memoranda and the various editions of the Guide.
Technical Memoranda
T. M. 1--"The Basic Column Formula" was issued in May of 1952. In conjunction with this release a statement as to the desirability of the tangent modulus formula as a suitable expression for determining the buckling load of a straight, prismatic, axially loaded member was published in the July 17, 1952 issue of the Engineering News-Record.
T. M. 2--"Notes on the Compression Testing Metals" was published initially in July 1956 ASTM Bulletin, p. 61.
T. M. 3--"Stub-Column Test Procedure" issued initially as an appendix to T. M. 2, was revised in 1962 by an International Institute of Welding Working Group and later was further revised in 1974 by Task Group 6.
T. M. 4--"Procedure for Testing Centrally Loaded Columns" was prepared by Task Group 6 of the Council and was based on an earlier report authored by N. Tebedge and L. Tall (1970).
T. M. 5--"General Principles for the Stability Design of Metal Structures." Completed in 1979 by an Ad-hoc Committee on Column Problems, under the chairmanship of T. V. Galambos, this memorandum updates and re-establishes the basic philosophy of the Council regarding column design. (Published by Civil Engineering Magazine, Feb. 1981. p. 53.)
T. M. 6--"Determination of Residual Stresses." Completed in 1979 by Task Group 6, this memorandum is based on earlier work at Lehigh by L. Tall and associated research workers. (To be published by the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis.)
Design Guides--Dr. Friedrich Bleich's book on "Buckling Strength of Metal Structures" has been described earlier in connection with its function as a major first step in the development of the Council's research program. It was also a forerunner of the design guides. After Dr. Bleich's sudden death in February of 1950, the book was completed later that year by his son, Dr. Hans Bleich, who was employed at the time by the firm of Hardesty and Hanover. The book is still widely used as a reference.
The concept of a "design guide" was introduced in 1956 by Jonathan Jones and L. S. Beedle. The purpose was to provide an authorative source of stability design information for engineers and specification writing bodies. The first two editions were titled "The Guide to Design Criteria for Metal Structures" (11). The following comparative summary illustrates the growth cycle of the Guide:
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1960 | 1966 | 1976 |
| 5 | 7 | 19 |
| 93 | 217 | 616 |
| 157 | 327 | 902 |
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