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Structural engineering art and approximation / Hugh Morrison.

By: Morrison, Hugh [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: England : Paragon Publishing, 2016Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Third edition.Description: 155 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781782223160 (paperback); 1782223169 (paperback).Subject(s): Structural design | Structural engineeringDDC classification: 624.17
Contents:
Part 1:Introduction -- Introduction -- Part 2:A visual approach to design with examples -- Structural engineering: efficacy, balance and grace -- Simply supported chapter beams -- Cantilever beams -- Continuous beams -- Framed structures -- Trusses and vierendeel structures -- Tension and suspended structures -- Arches, vaults and domes -- Torsion structures and ring beams -- Plate structures -- Deep beams and diaphragms -- Dynamics -- Part 3:A review of failures and practice -- Learning from failure -- To conclude.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.' John Maynard Keynes

Engineering Structures is mostly formally taught in a lecture room with little time devoted to real examples. On graduation an engineer has to cope with turning this eagerly acquired knowledge into reality.

To make sense of this a designer needs to be able to test their ideas with a simple set of tools which involve little more than pen, paper and calculator. Architects often wonder if there is an easier way to evaluate alternative structural solutions in their designs.

For more information see www.struartapp.com

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1:Introduction -- Introduction -- Part 2:A visual approach to design with examples -- Structural engineering: efficacy, balance and grace -- Simply supported chapter beams -- Cantilever beams -- Continuous beams -- Framed structures -- Trusses and vierendeel structures -- Tension and suspended structures -- Arches, vaults and domes -- Torsion structures and ring beams -- Plate structures -- Deep beams and diaphragms -- Dynamics -- Part 3:A review of failures and practice -- Learning from failure -- To conclude.

CIT Module CIVL 8028 - Supplementary reading.