Research Catalog

Title

Structural design : a practical guide for architects / James R. Underwood and Michele Chiuini.

Author

Underwood, James R.

Publication

New York : John Wiley, ©1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Chiuini, Michele.

Description

xix, 697 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Subject

• Structural design
• Architectural design
• Constructions > Calcul
• Design architectural

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 675-678) and indexes.

Contents

Loads -- Materials and properties -- Structural elements and systems -- Preengineered systems -- Steel beams -- Lateral stability of beams -- Beam supports -- Web yielding and crippling -- built-up beams -- Columns -- Fabricated columns -- Tension members -- Combined axial loading and bending -- Trusses -- Bolted connections -- Welded connections -- Design for lateral loads -- Materials and properties -- Structural elements and systems -- Roof and floor systems -- Sheathing and diaphragm design -- Timber and laminated timber beams -- Compression and tension members -- Timber truss design -- Aches, vaults and domes -- Connections -- Permanent wood foundations -- Materials and properties -- Reinforced concrete in architecture -- Beams strength theory -- Beam design -- Shear in beams -- Slabs -- Deflection -- Footings -- Columns -- Walls -- Anchorage and embedment -- Prestressed and precase concrete -- Materials and properties -- Structural systems -- Empirical design of walls -- Working-stress method.

ISBN

• 047114066X
• 9780471140665

LCCN

97052009

OCLC

• ocm38097015
• 38097015
• SCSB-366651

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library