How Structures Work : Design and Behaviour

The alliance between architecture and structural engineering is fundamental to the design of the buildings and bridges around us. Anyone who needs or wants to "understand" a building must have a good understanding of the structural concepts involved. Yet "structure" is often cloaked in mathematics - which many find difficult to get to grips with.How Structures Work has been written to explain the behaviour of structures in a clear way without resorting to complex mathematics. Using the minimum of mathematics it explains the structural concepts clearly, illustrated by many historical and contemporary examples, allowing readers to build up a general understanding of structures. In this way they can easily comprehend the structural aspects of buildings for themselves.Primarily aimed at students who require a good qualitative understanding of the behaviour of structures and their materials, it will be of particular interest to students of architecture and building surveying, plus architectural historians and conservationists. The straightforward, non-mathematical approach ensures it will also be suitable for a wider audience including building administrators, archaeologists and the interested layman.

David Yeomans is an engineer and an historian. He taught structural design at the Oxford and Liverpool Schools of Architecture and building construction, history and building conservation at Manchester University.

He currently teaches on the MSc course in timber conservation at the Weald and Downland Museum (run on behalf of Bournemouth University) and is also Senior Research Fellow at Liverpool University. He also practices as a structural engineer specializing in timber structures – both new-build and conservation work. He is secretary of the International Scientific Committee for the Analysis and restoration of Structures of Architectural Heritage, which is an ICOMOS scientific committee.

Preface	p. ix
Brackets and Bridges	p. 1
Cooper's tragedy	p. 2
The Forth Bridge	p. 4
Members in compression	p. 7
The Quebec Bridge	p. 8
Forces in a bracket	p. 9
The design process	p. 13
Stresses	p. 14
Stiffening a Beam - Girder Bridges	p. 17
The simple truss	p. 23
Tension trusses	p. 27
Girder bridges: the Forth Bridge	p. 32
Arches and Suspension Bridges	p. 34
Building an arch	p. 35
Blackfriars Bridge	p. 38
Pontypridd Bridge	p. 40
The forces in an arch	p. 40
Practical issues	p. 42
Forces within the arch ring	p. 44
Edwards's failure	p. 50
An unexpected failure	p. 51
Arch with point load	p. 52
Iron and concrete arches	p. 53
The suspension bridge	p. 56
Arches in buildings - flying buttresses	p. 58
Arches in walls	p. 61
Bringing the Loads to the Ground - The Structural Scheme	p. 65
Introduction	p. 65
The alternatives	p. 66
Choices	p. 68
Nature of the loads	p. 71
'Flow of forces', or action and reaction	p. 73
Describing the structure	p. 75
Structures are three-dimensional	p. 77
Safe as Houses? - Walls	p. 80
Bricks and mortar	p. 81
Point loads and openings	p. 86
Cavity walls	p. 90
Thick walls	p. 91
Foundation loads	p. 94
Horizontal loads	p. 97
Foundation stresses	p. 101
Frames - A Problem of Stability	p. 104
Timber framing	p. 105
Bracing forces	p. 112
Bending in the post	p. 113
Light frame construction	p. 114
The coming of iron	p. 116
The frame today	p. 124
The multi-storey frame	p. 127
Columns	p. 131
Floors and Beams - Deflections and Bending Moments	p. 135
The need for science	p. 141
Floors and deflections	p. 142
The forces in the beam	p. 143
Strain	p. 144
Galileo's cantilever	p. 146
Finding the stresses	p. 149
From cantilever to beam	p. 149
Iron and steel beams	p. 151
Cast iron	p. 152
Reinforced and prestressed concrete	p. 155
Reinforced concrete beams	p. 157
Prestressing	p. 159
Two-way floors	p. 163
Other structures in bending	p. 168
Providing Shelter - Roofs	p. 174
Common rafter roofs	p. 175
Purlin roofs	p. 180
Longitudinal stability	p. 187
The roof truss	p. 190
The coming of iron	p. 192
Three-dimensional roofs	p. 194
Structures in a Three-dimensional World	p. 200
Vaults	p. 200
The pointed vault	p. 204
Elaborations on the basic vault form	p. 206
Building vaults	p. 208
Domes	p. 209
A dome analysis	p. 212
Some historical examples	p. 215
The modern three-dimensional structure	p. 218
Anticlastic forms	p. 223
Structures in tension	p. 225
Structures for their time and place	p. 227
Appendix: Some Elements of Grammar	p. 228
Glossary	p. 233
Index	p. 243
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

FREE SHIPPING

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

How Structures Work : Design and Behaviour from Bridges to Buildings

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials