Basic structures for engineers and architects / Philip Garrison.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 2005.Description: xiii, 278 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781405120531 (pbk.) :
- 9781405120531
- 9781405120531 :
- 1405120533
- 624.1 GAR
- TA637 .G37 2005
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Includes index.
1.What is structural engineering? -- 2.Learn the language: a simple explanation of terms used by structural engineers -- 3.How do structures (and parts of structures) behave? -- 4.Force, mass and weight -- 5.Loading - dead or alive -- 6.Equilibrium - a balanced approach -- 7.More about forces: resultants and components -- 8.Moments -- 9.Reactions -- 1-.Different types of support - and what\'s a pin? -- 11.A few words about stability -- 12.Introduction to the analysis of pin-jointed frames -- 13.Method of resolution at joints -- 13.Methods of sections -- 15.Graphical method -- 16.Shear force and bending moments -- 17.This thing called stress -- 18.Direct (and shear) stress -- 20.Combined bending and axial stress -- 21.Structural materials: concrete, steel, timber and masonry -- 22.More on materials -- 23.How far can I span? -- 24.Calculating those loads.
Students of civil engineering and architecture are provided with a grounding in the fundamentals of structures, and a 'feel' for the way buildings behave structurally.