‘It is better to be roughly night than precisely wrong.’ John Maynard Keynes
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This book contains approximate structural calculation methods for engineers and architects. For easy reference and assimilation it is broken down into categories from simple beams to more complex examples. With numerous figures and photographs it closely relates theory to real structures. Engineering structures is mostly formally taught in a lecture room with little time devoted to real examples. On graduation an engineer has to cope with turning this eagerly acquired knowledge into reality. To make sense of this a designer needs to be able to test their ideas with a simple set of tools which involve little more than pen, paper and calculator. Architects often wonder if there is an easier way to evaluate alternative structural solutions in their designs.
Inhoudsopgave
Part 1 Introduction
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Chapter 1.1 Introduction 6 -8
Part 2 A Visual Approach to Design with Examples
Chapter 2.1 Structural Engineering: Efficacy, Balance and Grace 9 – 12 Chapter 2.2 Simply Supported Beams 13 – 22
Chapter 2.3 Cantilevers 23 – 30
Chapter 2.4 Continuous Beams 31 – 38
Chapter 2.5 Framed Structures 39 – 48
Chapter 2.6 Trusses and Vierendeel Structures 49 – 64
Chapter 2.7 Tension and Suspension Structures 65 – 80
Chapter 2.8 Arches, Vaults and Domes 81 – 100
Chapter 2.9 Torsion Structures and Ring Beams 101 – 114
Chapter 2.10 Plate Structures 115 – 120
Chapter 2.11 Deep Beams, Load Carrying Walls and Diaphragms 121 – 126 Chapter 2.12 Dynamics 127 – 142
Chapter 2.13 Foundations 143 – 156
Part 3 A Review of Failures and Practice
Chapter 3.1 Learning from Failure 157 – 159
Chapter 3.2 To Conclude 160
Famous Structural Engineers 161
References 161
List of Figures 162 – 165
Full List of Photographs with Credits 166
Index 167 – 169
Over de auteur
Book Website: www.struartapp.com – Hugh graduated in Architectural Engineering from Leeds University in 1984. He has worked at: British Aerospace on space structures, Arup Associates and Arup in London, Anthony Hunt Associates, Stephen Morley Partnership and was a director at Scott Hughes Design. He set up Hugh Morrison Associates in 2010, a sole trading company, further developing his expertise in SIPs, timber frame and special structures such as glass staircases.
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