| ISBN |
9781135143053 |
| 9780750654517 |
| Author |
Mainstone, Rowland |
| Title |
Developments in structural form |
| Description |
1 online resource (383 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Developments in Structural Form -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Part 1: Introductory -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Natural and man-made forms -- Practical limitations on the choice of man-made forms -- Other aspects of choice -- The development of structural forms -- Chapter 2: Structural actions -- Loads and their effects -- Active and reactive loads -- Associated movements and deformations -- Dynamic and static loads -- Internal actions -- Tension, compression, bending, torsion, and shear -- Actions of the human frame -- Actions of the built structure -- Structural requirements -- The basic geometrical requirement -- The complementary needs for adequate strengths and stiffnesses -- Static equilibrium -- The equilibrium of some structural elements acting in simple tension or compression -- The catenary and the arch -- Equilibrium calling for both tension and compression -- The simply supported beam -- The domical shell and the dome -- Buckling -- Structural interdependence -- Statically determinate behaviour -- Statically indeterminate behaviour -- Cracks and deformations as clues to structural actions -- Chapter 3: Structural materials -- Stone -- Brick -- Concrete -- Timber -- Iron and steel -- Reinforced concrete -- Prestressed concrete -- New composite materials -- Chapter 4: Construction and form -- Operational aspects -- Setting out -- The use of in situ centering or formwork -- The use of prefabricated elements or components -- Intermediate possibilities -- Other operational aspects -- Structural aspects -- Ensuring adequate strengths during construction -- Ensuring the stability of the incomplete structure -- The use of centring for arches and vaults -- Construction without centring -- The effects of deformations occurring during construction Prestressing. |
| Chapter 5: Structure and form -- Simple elemental forms -- Ties, struts, and columns -- Plane membranes and walls -- Catenaries and arches -- Singly-curved membranes and vaults -- Doubly-curved membranes, vaults, and shells -- Beams -- Slabs -- Trussed and framed analogues -- Portal frames -- Plane trusses and space frames -- Proportions -- Complete structures -- Part 2: Structural elements -- Chapter 6: Arches and catenaries -- Origins -- Masonry and concrete arches -- Timber, iron, and steel arches -- Reinforced- and prestressed-concrete arches -- Catenaries -- Chapter 7: Vaults, domes, and curved membranes -- Origins -- Concrete and masonry domes and related forms -- Concrete and masonry groined and ribbed vaults -- Masonry spires and fan vaults -- Thin reinforced-concrete shells -- Timber counterparts -- Slung membranes and cable nets -- Air-supported and pneumatic membranes -- Chapter 8: Beams and slabs -- Early forms -- Later timber and iron and steel beams -- Reinforced-masonry beams -- Reinforced- and prestressed-concrete beams and related forms -- Floor and deck systems and slabs -- Chapter 9: Trusses, portal frames, and space frames -- Origins -- Roof trusses -- Trussed equivalents of the beam and arch -- Portal frames -- Space frames -- Chapter 10: Supports, walls, and foundations -- Early forms -- Later masonry and concrete and reinforced-concrete columns, piers, and walls -- Later timber and iron and steel columns and struts -- Hangers and ties -- Foundations -- Part 3: Complete structures -- Chapter 11: Early forms -- Primitive shelters and later house forms -- Column-and-beam temples and palace and public halls -- Tombs, pyramids, and some other structures -- Chapter 12: Pre-nineteenth-century wide-span buildings -- Roman timber-roofed basilicas and large vaulted and domed halls. |
| Early domed churches and related later churches and mosques -- Pre-Gothic timber-roofed and stone-vaulted churches -- Timber barns and Gothic stone-vaulted churches -- Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century vaulted and domed churches -- Chapter 13: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century wide-span buildings -- Halls with framed and trussed counterparts of arched and domed roofs -- Halls with reinforced-concrete arched and shell roofs -- Halls with beam, slab, truss, and space-frame roofs -- Halls with cable-supported beam, truss, or space-frame roofs -- Halls with cable-net and membrane roofs or canopies -- Chapter 14: Bridges -- Masonry arch bridges -- Timber, iron, steel, and reinforced-concrete arch bridges -- Beam (including cantilever) bridges -- Simple cable and stressed-ribbon bridges -- Bridges with cable-supported decks -- Suspension bridges -- Cable-stayed bridges -- Chapter 15: Multi-storey buildings and towers -- Towers -- Pre-twentieth-century bearing-wall buildings -- Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century fully-framed buildings -- Later twentieth-century framed and bearing-wall buildings of medium height -- Taller framed and core-stiffened buildings of the 1960s and 1970s -- Later twentieth-century taller framed and core-stiffened buildings -- Alternative forms -- Part 4: Design -- Chapter 16: Structural understanding and design -- Understanding and design up to the Renaissance -- Growing understanding and its impact on design from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century -- Further developments from the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century -- The use of physical models and computers as aids to design in the later twentieth century -- Changes and underlying continuities -- Glossary of structural terms -- Notes -- Indexes. |
| Subject |
Architecture |
| Building |
| Structural engineering |
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