Structural design : a practical guide for architects

✍ Scribed by Chiuini, Michele; Underwood, James R

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 816
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written for the practicing architect, ''Structural Design'' addresses the process on both a conceptual and a mathematical level. Most importantly, it helps architects work with structural consultants and understand all the necessary considerations when designing structural systems. Using a minimum of simple math, this book shows you how to make correct design calculations for structures made from steel, wood, concrete, and masonry. What's more, this edition has been completely updated to reflect the latest design methods and codes, including LRFD for steel design. The book was also re-designed for easy navigation. Essential principles, as well as structural solutions, are visually reinforced with hundreds of drawings, photographs, and other illustrations--making this book truly architect-friendly

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction : understanding loads --
Load and resistance factor design --
Steel. Materials and properties
Structural elements and systems
Steel bending systems
preengineered systems
Steel beams
Lateral stability of beams
Supports
Web yielding and crippling
Built-up beams
Steel axially loaded systems
Columns
Tension members
Steel combined systems
Combined axial loading and bending
Trusses
Steel connections
Bolted connections
Welded connections --
Wood. Materials and properties
Wood structures in architecture
Wood bending systems
Bending members : floor and roof systems
Sheathing and diaphragm design
Timber and laminated timber beams
Wood axially loaded members
Compression and tension members
Wood combined systems
Timber truss design
Arches, vaults, and domes
Wood connections
Connections
Wood special systems
Permanent wood foundations --
Reinforced concrete (R/C). Materials and properties
Reinforced concrete in architecture
R/C bending members
Beam strength and theory
Beam design
Shear in beams
Slabs
Deflection
Footings
R/C axially loaded members
Columns
Walls
R/C connections
connections
R/C special systems
Prestressed and precast concrete --
Masonry. Materials and properties
Structural systems
Masonry axially loaded members
Empirical design of walls
Allowable stress method.