Basic Structures for Engineers and Architects

✍ Scribed by Philip Garrison

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Edition: 1
• 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

Basic Structures for Engineers & Architects
......Page 1
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction......Page 10
1 What is structural engineering?......Page 18
2 Learn the language......Page 27
3 How do structures (and parts of structures) behave?......Page 30
4 Force, mass and weight......Page 46
5 Loading – dead or alive......Page 53
6 Equilibrium – a balanced approach......Page 60
7 More about forces: resultants and components......Page 66
8 Moments......Page 77
9 Reactions......Page 87
10 Different types of support – and what's a pin?......Page 94
11 A few words about stability......Page 103
12 Introduction to the analysis of pin-jointed frames......Page 117
13 Method of resolution at joints......Page 122
14 Method of sections......Page 143
15 Graphical method......Page 151
16 Shear force and bending moments......Page 162
17 This thing called stress......Page 192
18 Direct (and shear) stress......Page 198
19 Bending stress......Page 208
20 Combined bending and axial stress......Page 231
21 Structural materials: steel, timber and masonry......Page 246
22 More on materials......Page 259
23 How far can I span?......Page 266
24 Calculating those loads......Page 275
Appendix 1: Weights of common building materials......Page 286
Appendix 2:Conversions and relationships between units......Page 288
Appendix 3: Mathematics associated with right-angled triangles......Page 290
Appendix 4: Symbols......Page 292
Index......Page 294