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How structures work : design and behaviour from bridges to buildings /

Yeomans, David T.

How structures work : design and behaviour from bridges to buildings / David Yeomans. - Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. - xv, 248 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Brackets and bridges -- Stiffening a beam : girder bridges -- Arches and suspension bridges -- Bringing the loads to the ground : the structural scheme -- Safe as houses? : walls -- Frames : a problem of stability -- Floors and beams : deflections and bending moments -- Providing shelter : roofs -- Structures in a three-dimensional world.

This book has been written to explain the behaviour of structures in a clear way. Using the minimum of mathematics it explains the structural concepts, illustrating them with many historical and contemporary examples and allowing readers to build up a general understanding of structures.

9781405190176 (pbk.) : �29.99 9781405190176 �32.85

2009007675


Structural engineering.
Structural analysis (Engineering)
Technology.
Architecture
Civil engineering, surveying & building
Architectural structure & design
Structural engineering

TA633 / .Y46 2009

624.1 YEO

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