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Building Structures

Building Structures
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This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in buildings. Both interested layman and all types of building professional will benefit from the explanations given for the behaviour of structures as they form part of buildings. Absolutely no prior knowledge is assumed and no mathematics is used in the explanations, which are reinforced by over 900 user-friendly diagrams.

Starting from the basic ideas of load and load transfer, the ideas are introduced step by step. Chapters one to seven form the core of the book and clearly explain all the conceptual ideas needed to obtain a sophisticated level of understanding. Chapters eight and nine then show how these ideas apply to the structural behaviour of actual buildings.

The Introduction gives a brief history of the search for understanding and Chapter 11 looks at the interaction of structures with architecture. The final Chapter shows how from the conceptual understanding simple numerical calculations can be done, using no more than the basic arithmetic operations. At the end of Chapter twelve, a few examples are given showing how significant calculations can be done for real buildings, these include some calculations for the famous Centre Pompidou.
Spon Press; December 2004
541 pages; ISBN 9781134306503
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