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Basic Structures
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2016.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The purpose of this book
- The intended readership
- A word about computers
- The website
- An overview of this book
- How to use this book
- Let's keep it simple
- 1 What is structural engineering?
- Introduction
- What is a structure?
- What is an engineer?
- The structural engineer in the context of related professions
- Structural understanding
- Safety and serviceability
- The composition of a building structure
- A few words for students on architecture courses
- 2 Learn the language
- Introduction
- 3 How do structures (and parts of structures) behave?
- Introduction
- Compression
- Tension
- Bending
- Shear
- Structural elements and their behaviour
- Cross-sectional types
- Appraisal of existing structures
- What you should remember from this chapter
- 4 Force, mass and weight
- Introduction
- The relationship between weight and mass
- Density and unit weight
- Units generally
- Relationships with other measuring systems
- What you should remember from this chapter
- Tutorial examples
- 5 Loading
- dead or alive
- Introduction: what is a load?
- Nature of load
- Load paths
- 6 Equilibrium
- a balanced approach
- Introduction
- Vertical equilibrium
- Horizontal equilibrium
- The application of equilibrium
- What you should remember from this chapter
- 7 More about forces
- Introduction
- The Underground analogy
- Resolution of forces
- The 'Donald and Tristan' analogy
- Resultants of forces
- Components of forces
- What you should remember from this chapter
- Tutorial examples
- 8 Moments
- Introduction
- What is a moment?
- Practical examples of moments
- Numerical problems involving moments
- Moment equilibrium
- What you should remember from this chapter
- Tutorial examples
- 9 Reactions
- Introduction
- Moment equilibrium
- Calculation of reactions
- Calculation of reactions when uniformly distributed loads are present
- What you should remember from this chapter
- Tutorial examples
- 10 Different types of support
- and what's a pin?
- What is a pin?
- Different types of support
- Restraints
- Simultaneous equations
- What you should remember from this chapter
- Tutorial examples
- 11 A few words about stability
- Introduction
- Stability of structural frameworks
- Internal stability of framed structures
- a summary
- Examples
- General cases
- Frames on supports
- Examples
- Stability of 'real' structures
- What you should remember from this chapter
- Tutorial examples
- 12 Introduction to the analysis of pin-jointed frames
- Simple beams, lattice girders and trusses
- What is a pin-jointed frame?
- How are pin-jointed frames analysed?
- 13 Method of resolution at joints
- Introduction
- The rules
- The general approach
- Standard cases
- The influence of diagonal members
- Worked example 1
- Worked example 2
- Worked example 3