Newly released textbook cover provided by Charles W. Dolan

Charles Dolan Releases Textbook

August 20. 2009 -Dr. Charles Dolan, H.T. Person Chair and Professor of Civil and Architectural Engineering, recently released a co-authored text Design of Concrete Structures. The textbook, released by McGraw-Hill, is the fourteenth edition of the text and according to Dr. Dolan, “one of the oldest continuous running copyrights in the United States.”

Design of Concrete Structures is revised using the newly released 2008 American Concrete Institute Code. The objective of the text is to establish a firm understanding of the behavior of structural concrete as well as develop proficiency in the methods used in current design practice. The text also outlines basic mechanics of structural concrete, methods for the design of individual members for bending, shear, torsion, and axial force, and provides detail on the various types of structural systems applications. Dolan co-authored the new edition with colleagues Dr. Arthur H. Nilson, emeritus faculty member of the College of Engineering at Cornell University, and Dr. David Darwin, faculty member at the University of Kansas and director of the Structural Engineering and Materials Laboratory.

Dolan has been a faculty member at the University of Wyoming since 1991, serving as head of the Civil and Architectural Engineering Department from 1998 to 2001. He was appointed H.T. Person Chair in Engineering in 2002. A Fellow in ACI and the Prestressed Concrete Institute, he is an internationally recognized leader in the development of fiber reinforced polymers for concrete reinforcement. In private design practice for nearly 20 years, he was the project engineer on the Walt Disney World Monorail, the Detroit Downtown Peoplemover guideway, and the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport transit system guideway. In addition, he is responsible for the conceptual design of the Dubai Palm Island monorail. A registered professional engineer and consultant in the design of structural concrete, he received his B.S. from the University of Massachusetts in 1965 and M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1967 and 1989.