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Developments in structural form / Rowland Mainstone.

By: Mainstone, R. J. (Rowland J.), 1923-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Allen Lane, 1975Description: 350 p. : ill. ; 31 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0713903333.Subject(s): Building | Structural engineering | ArchitectureDDC classification: 721
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 721 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00156601
Total holds: 0

Bibliography: p. 327-[328] - Includes index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Part 1 Introductory
  • Introduction; Structural actions and materials
  • Construction and form
  • Structure and form
  • Part 2 Structural elements
  • Arches
  • vaults
  • domes
  • curved membranes
  • beams and slabs
  • trusses
  • portal frames
  • space frames
  • supports
  • walls
  • foundations
  • Part 3 Complete structures
  • Early forms; Pre-nineteenth-century wide-span buildings
  • Nineteenth-and twentieth-century wide-span buildings
  • Bridges
  • Multi-storey buildings and towers
  • Part 4 Design
  • Structural understanding and design