Kenneth Leet is a Professor Emeritus of structural engineering at Northeastern University. He received his Ph.D. in structural engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a professor of civil engineering at Northeastern University, he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in reinforced concrete design, structural analysis, foundations, plates and shells, and capstone courses on comprehensive engineering projects for over thirty years. Professor Leet was given an Excellence in Teaching award at Northeastern University in 1992. He was also a faculty member for ten years at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

In addition to being the author of the first edition of this book on structural analysis, originally published by Macmillan in 1988, he is the author of Fundamentals of Reinforced Concrete, published by McGraw-Hill in 1982 and now in its third edition.

Before teaching, he was employed by the Corps of Army Engineers as a construction management engineer, by Catalytic Construction Company as a field engineer, and by several structural engineering firms as a structural designer. He has also served as a structural consultant to a number of government agencies and private firms, including the U.S. Department of Transportation, Procter & Gamble, Teledyne Engineering Services, and the City of Philadelphia and Boston Bridge Departments.

As a member of the American Arbitration Association, the American Concrete Institute, the ASCE, and the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Professor Leet actively participated in professional societies for many years.

Chia-Ming Uang is a Professor of structural engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He received a B.S. degree in civil engineering from National Taiwan University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. His research areas include seismic analysis and design of steel, composite, and timber structures.

Professor Uang also coauthored the text Ductile Design of Steel Structures for McGraw-Hill. He received the UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004. He is also the recipient of the ASCE Raymond C. Reese Research Prize in 2001 and the Moisseiff Award in 2004.

Anne Gilbert, PE, SECB, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in structural engineering at Yale University, School of Architecture. She is also a senior project engineer at Spiegel Zamecnik & Shah, Inc., structural engineers of New Haven, Conn., and Washington, D.C. She received a B.A. in architecture at the University of North Carolina, a B.S. in civil engineering from Northeastern University, and a M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Connecticut.

Gilbert specializes in structural design of hospitals, laboratories, university and residential buildings; in the preparation of plans and specifications; and in seismic evaluation (renovation of structures in high seismic areas); and in construction administration. Her experience in architectural design includes the new design of commercial and residential buildings, as well as the rehabilitation of urban brownstones.