Widespan Roof Structures

Widespan Roof Structures
Author: Michael Barnes
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2000
Genre: Architectural design
ISBN: 9780727728777

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Presents world thinking on the design and construction of large covered spaces. This book aims to offer insights into many of the innovative construction design projects. It explores the advances within stressed membrane roofing, atria and glass structures, with a focus on international developments. It also addresses the problems of construction.

Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures

Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures
Author: Eugenio Oñate
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2006-03-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1402033176

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This book collects state-of-the-art research and technology for design, analysis, construction and maintenance of textile and inflatable structures. Textile composites and inflatable structures have become increasingly popular for a variety of applications in OCo among many other fieldsaOCo civil engineering, architecture and aerospace engineering. Typical examples include membrane roofs and covers, sails, inflatable buildings and pavilions, airships, inflatable furniture, airspace structures etc. The book contains 18 invited contributions written by distinguished authors who participated in the International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflated Structures held in Barcelona from June 30th to July 2nd, 2003. The meeting was one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS). The different chapters discuss recent progress and future research directions in membrane and inflatable structures built with new textile composite materials. Approximately half of the book focuses on describing innovative numerical methods for structural analysis of such structures, such as new nonlinear membrane and shell finite elements. The rest of the chapters present advances in design, construction and maintenance procedures."

Tension Structures

Tension Structures
Author: Wanda J. Lewis
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2003
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780727732361

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The tension structures discussed in this book are predominantly roofing forms created from pre-stressed cable nets, cable trusses, and continuous membranes (fabric structures). A unique feature in their design is "form-finding" - an interactive process of defining the shape of a structure under tension. The book discusses the role of stable minimal surfaces (minimum energy forms occurring in natural objects, such as soap films) in finding optimal shapes of membrane and cable structures. The discussion of form-finding is extended to structural forms whose shape is supposedly known, such as suspension bridge cables.

Steel Structures

Steel Structures
Author: T.J. MacGinley
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2002-12-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0203474287

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The second edition of this well-known book provides a series of practical design studies of a range of steel structures. It is extensively revised and contains numerous worked examples, including comparative designs for many structures.

Steel Structures

Steel Structures
Author: Hassan Al Nageim
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1482263572

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The fourth edition of this popular steel structures book contains references to both Eurocodes and British Standards. All the material has been updated where necessary, and new and revised worked examples are included. Sections on the meaning, the purpose and limits of structural design, sustainable steel building and energy saving have been updated. The initial chapters cover the essentials of structural engineering and structural steel design. The remainder of the book is dedicated to a detail examination of the analysis and design of selected types of structures, presenting complex designs in an understandable and user-friendly way. These structures include a range of single and multi-storey buildings, floor systems and wide-span buildings. Each design example is illustrated with applications based on current Eurocodes or British Standard design data, thus assisting the reader to share in the environment of the design process that normally takes place in practical offices and develop real design skills. Two new chapters on the design of cased steel columns and plate girders with and without rigid end posts to EC4 & EC3 are included too. References have been fully updated and include useful website addresses. Emphasis is placed on practical design with a view to helping undergraduate students and newly qualified engineers bridge the gap between academic study and work in the design office. Practising engineers who need a refresher course on up-to-dates methods of design and analysis to EC3 and EC4 will also find the book useful, and numerous worked examples are included.

Steel Designers' Manual

Steel Designers' Manual
Author: SCI (Steel Construction Institute)
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1410
Release: 2016-06-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119249864

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In 2010 the then current European national standards for building and construction were replaced by the EN Eurocodes, a set of pan-European model building codes developed by the European Committee for Standardization. The Eurocodes are a series of 10 European Standards (EN 1990 – EN 1999) that provide a common approach for the design of buildings, other civil engineering works and construction products. The design standards embodied in these Eurocodes will be used for all European public works and are set to become the de-facto standard for the private sector in Europe, with probable adoption in many other countries. This classic manual on structural steelwork design was first published in 1955, since when it has sold many tens of thousands of copies worldwide. For the seventh edition of the Steel Designers' Manual all chapters have been comprehensively reviewed, revised to ensure they reflect current approaches and best practice, and brought in to compliance with EN 1993: Design of Steel Structures (the so-called Eurocode 3).

A Design Guide

A Design Guide
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 59
Release: 1977*
Genre: Building, Iron and Steel
ISBN:

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Advances in Structures

Advances in Structures
Author: Gregory J Hancock
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2003
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789058095893

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This volume is an outcome of the international conference on advances in structures: steel, concrete, composite and aluminium in Sydney in 2003. It focuses on researches in composite design, fire engineering, light gauge construction, advanced structural analysis and concrete filled tubes.

Contemporary Architecture and the Digital Design Process

Contemporary Architecture and the Digital Design Process
Author: Peter Szalapaj
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2014-04-23
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135392145

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Contemporary Architecture and the Digital Design Process introduces the reader to new developments in the computer modelling of design form in contemporary architectural practice through a series of detailed case studies. The book illustrates how evolving design practices use and exploit the potential of new computing technologies in a wide range of areas and application. A central thesis of this book is that technology follows design demand, rather than design adjusting to available new technology. Designers are not merely passive recipients of prescribed computing tools and techniques. Instead, they are increasingly able to express their intuitive design ideas through the rational medium of computing. The book features several contemporary building projects, each of which introduces a range of CAD and computing issues based upon the work of creative architectural and engineering design practices. These include the offices of Frank O. Gehry, Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, Anthony Hunt Associates, Peter Hubner, Szyskowitz-Kowalski, and Faulkner Brown. All these examples show what architects need to know and the skills they need to acquire to use advanced CAD technology.