Developments in Structural Form

Rowland J. Mainstone

382 pages, parution le 01/09/2001 (2^eme édition)

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Résumé

In the critically acclaimed first edition of this book, Mainstone offered a brilliant and highly original account of the structural developments that have made possible the achievements of architects and bridge builders throughout history.

In this extensively revised and expanded new edition, now available in paperback, new insights and a full coverage of recent developments in both design and construction are incorporated. The book identifies features that distinguish the forms built by man from those shaped by nature and discusses the physical and other constraints on the choices that can be made. It then looks in turn at all the elementary forms - arches, domes, beams, slabs and the like - which combine into the more complex forms of complete structures, and at the different classes of the complete forms themselves. The development of each form is traced chronologically, but with an emphasis less on the chronology than on the problems that designers have continually faced in trying to serve new ends with limited means or to serve old ones in new ways. The book concludes with a chapter on the processes of design, showing how the designer's freedom of choice has been widened by a growing understanding of structural behaviour.

Contents

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.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Architectural Press
Auteur(s)	Rowland J. Mainstone
Parution	01/09/2001
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	382
Format	21 x 29,7
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1449g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780750654517
ISBN13	978-0-7506-5451-7