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Explains the structural concepts, illustrated by many historical and contemporary examples, allowing readers to build up a general understanding of structures. This book is suitable for students of architecture and building surveying, and architectural historians and conservationists.
Sommario
Preface.
1 Brackets and Bridges.
Cooper's tragedy.
The Forth Bridge.
Members in compression.
The Quebec Bridge.
Forces in a bracket.
The design process.
Stresses.
2 Stiffening a Beam - Girder Bridges.
The simple truss.
Tension trusses.
Girder bridges: the Forth Bridge.
3 Arches and Suspension Bridges.
Building an arch.
Blackfriars Bridge.
Pontypridd Bridge.
The forces in an arch.
Practical issues.
Forces within the arch ring.
Edwards's failure.
An unexpected failure.
Arch with point load.
Iron and concrete arches.
The suspension bridge.
Arches in buildings - flying buttresses.
Arches in walls.
4 Bringing the Loads to the Ground - The StructuralScheme.
Introduction.
The alternatives.
Choices.
Nature of the loads.
'Flow of forces', or action and reaction.
Describing the structure.
Structures are three-dimensional.
5 Safe as Houses? - Walls.
Bricks and mortar.
Point loads and openings.
Cavity walls.
Thick walls.
Foundation loads.
Horizontal loads.
Foundation stresses.
6 Frames - A Problem of Stability.
Timber framing.
Bracing forces.
Bending in the post.
Light frame construction.
The coming of iron.
The frame today.
The multi-storey frame.
Columns.
7 Floors and Beams - Deflections and BendingMoments.
The need for science.
Floors and deflections.
The forces in the beam.
Strain.
Galileo's cantilever.
Finding the stresses.
From cantilever to beam.
Iron and steel beams.
Cast iron.
Reinforced and prestressed concrete.
Reinforced concrete beams.
Prestressing.
Two-way floors.
Other structures in bending.
8 Providing Shelter - Roofs.
Common rafter roofs.
Purlin roofs.
Longitudinal stability.
The roof truss.
The coming of iron.
Three-dimensional roofs.
9 Structures in a Three-dimensional World.
Vaults.
The pointed vault.
Elaborations on the basic vault form.
Building vaults.
Domes.
A dome analysis.
Some historical examples.
The modern three-dimensional structure.
Anticlastic forms.
Structures in tension.
Structures for their time and place.
Appendix: Some Elements of Grammar.
Glossary.
Index.
Relazione
?The reader can equally well read How Structures Workstraight through or pick it up and wade in almost randomly.There are no two consecutive pages without some enlightenment.? ( Timber Framing , December 2009)
