How Structures Work

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-9017-6
Verlag: Wiley¿Blackwell

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

Wie funktionieren Gebäude? Yeomans gibt darauf eine Antwort und erläutert Konstruktionskonzepte auf verständliche Weise, ohne sich dabei komplexer mathematischer Berechnungen zu bedienen. Am Beispiel unzähliger historischer und zeitgenössischer Gebäude werden allgemeine Konstruktionsprinzipien und mathematische Berechnungsgrundlagen erklärt, die dem Leser die konstruktionstechnischen Merkmale von Bauwerken eingängig und verständlich näher bringen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yeomans, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

David Yeomans is an engineer and an historian. He taughtstructural design at the Oxford and Liverpool Schools ofArchitecture and building construction, history and buildingconservation at Manchester University.
He currently teaches on the MSc course in timber conservation atthe Weald and Downland Museum (run on behalf of BournemouthUniversity) and is also Senior Research Fellow at LiverpoolUniversity. He also practices as a structural engineer specializingin timber structures - both new-build and conservation work -and was formerly secretary of the International ScientificCommittee for the Analysis and restoration of Structures ofArchitectural Heritage, an ICOMOS scientific committee.