Structures, Seventh Edition, offers single-volume coverage of all major topics in structural analysis and design. Focusing on how structures really work, the text discusses concepts from both engineering and architectural perspectives, exploring structural behavior, structural analysis, and design within a building context. In addition to the seventh edition being significantly updated, the structural analysis software—Multiframe— is now available online for students and instructors to download.
Key Features
- Integrative approach discusses structures from both an engineering and architectural perspective.
- Part I Introductory Concepts focuses on fundamental concepts of analysis and design.
- Part II Analysis and Design of Structural Elements introduces readers to most of the primary structural elements used in buildings and their analysis and design.
- Part III Principles of Structural Design contains a unique examination of the logic of structural design.
- Flexible organization makes it easy to align material with one’s course goals.
- In-depth appendices discuss more advanced principles of structural analysis.
- Numerous examples, illustrations, and exercises show readers real-world applications and provide a context for learning.
New to This Edition
- Expanded! Load and resistant factor design approaches are now explained more in depth, and have been included in the coverage of detailed design approaches for steel and timber beams and columns.
- Expanded and Updated! The coverage of structural system design in chapter 13 has been expanded and revised.
- Streamlined! All construction and system integration topics have been consolidated in chapter 15.
- New! The impact of structural system choices on architectural space and form has been illustrated through many axonometric and perspective views inspired in part by Heino Engel’s illustration concepts.
- New! A number of new examples of actual building structures will enable students to make a better connection between the theory of structures and its actual application to design.
- New!Multiframe, the structural analysis software previously included on CD, is now freely available on the web.
Contents
PART I: INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS
- 1. Structures: An Overview
- 2. Principles of Mechanics
- 3. Introduction to Structural Analysis and Design
PART II: ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
- 4. Trusses
- 5. Funicular Structures: Cables and Arches
- 6. Beams
- 7. Members in Compression: Columns
- 8. Continuous Structures: Beams
- 9. Continuous Structures: Rigid Frames
- 10. Plate and Grid Structures
- 11. Membrane and Net Structures
- 12. Shell Structures
PART III: PRINCIPLES OF STRUCTURAL DESIGN
- 13. Structural Elements and Grids: General Design Strategies
- 14. Structural Systems: Design for Lateral Loadings
- 15. Structural Systems: Constructional Approaches
- 16. Structural Connections
Appendices
- 1. Conversions
- 2. Nonconcurrent Force Systems
- 3. Moments of Distributed Loads
- 4. Centroids
- 5. Moments of Inertia
- 6. Bending Stresses in Beams
- 7. Shearing Stresses in Beams
- 8. Moment-Curvature Relations
- 9. Deflections
- 10. Moment-Area Theorems: Slopes and Deflections
- 11. Other Methods of Analyzing Indeterminate Structures
- 12. Reinforced-Concrete Beams: Detailed U.S. Design Procedures
- 13. Critical Buckling Loads for Compression Members
- 14. Code Compliant Design of Timber Columns
- 15. Computer-Based Methods of Analysis: Force and Matrix-Displacement Techniques
- 16. Computer-Based Methods of Analysis: Finite-Element Techniques
- 17. Typical U.S. Steel Shapes: Properties
- 18. Typical Material Properties
Book Details
- Publisher Prentice Hall; 7th Revised edition (July 22, 2013)
- Language English
- ISBN-10 0132559137
- ISBN-13 978-0132559133
- List Price: $128.00