Basic Structures for Engineers and Architects

✍ Scribed by Philip Garrison

• Publisher: Blackwell
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 294
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides students of civil engineering and architecture with a grounding in the fundamentals of structures, and a 'feel' for the way buildings behave structurally. The book aims to explain structural concepts clearly, using analogies and examples to illustrate the points, and it expresses mathematical aspects of the subject in a straightforward way.

Fully worked solutions to examples available online for readers. Please see www.blackwellpublishing.com/garrison/

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 15
1 What is structural engineering?......Page 17
2 Learn the language......Page 26
3 How do structures (and parts of structures) behave?......Page 29
4 Force, mass and weight......Page 45
5 Loading – dead or alive......Page 52
6 Equilibrium – a balanced approach......Page 59
7 More about forces: resultants and components......Page 65
8 Moments......Page 76
9 Reactions......Page 86
10 Different types of support – and what's a pin?......Page 93
11 A few words about stability......Page 102
12 Introduction to the analysis of pin-jointed frames......Page 116
13 Method of resolution at joints......Page 121
14 Method of sections......Page 142
15 Graphical method......Page 150
16 Shear force and bending moments......Page 161
17 This thing called stress......Page 191
18 Direct (and shear) stress......Page 197
19 Bending stress......Page 207
20 Combined bending and axial stress......Page 230
21 Structural materials: steel, timber and masonry......Page 245
22 More on materials......Page 258
23 How far can I span?......Page 265
24 Calculating those loads......Page 274
Appendix 1: Weights of common building materials......Page 285
Appendix 2:Conversions and relationships between units......Page 287
Appendix 3: Mathematics associated with right-angled triangles......Page 289
Appendix 4: Symbols......Page 291
Index......Page 293