How Structures Work: Design and Behaviour from Bridges to Buildings

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How Structures Work:
Design and Behaviour from Bridges to Buildings

Author: David Yeomans
Edition: illustrated
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, 2009
ISBN: 1405190175, 9781405190176
Length: 248 pages
Pdf: 14.4 mb
Pdf Quality Condition: 8 points (over 10), scanned copy

The alliance between architecture and structural engineering is fundamental to the design of the buildings and bridges around us. Anyone who needs or wants to “understand” a building must have a good understanding of the structural concepts involved. Yet “structure” is often cloaked in mathematics – which many find difficult to get to grips with.

How Structures Work has been written to explain the behaviour of structures in a clear way without resorting to complex mathematics. Using the minimum of mathematics it explains the structural concepts clearly, illustrated by many historical and contemporary examples, allowing readers to build up a general understanding of structures. In this way they can easily comprehend the structural aspects of buildings for themselves.


Primarily aimed at students who require a good qualitative understanding of the behaviour of structures and their materials, it will be of particular interest to students of architecture and building surveying, plus architectural historians and conservationists. The straightforward, non-mathematical approach ensures it will also be suitable for a wider audience including building administrators, archaeologists and the interested layman.

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How Structures Work: Design and Behaviour from Bridges to Buildings. 2ED

Author(s)/Editor(s): David T. Yeomans | Size: 14.4 MB | Format: PDF | Quality: Original preprint | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2 edition | Year: 2016 | pages: 272 | ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-1119012276 ISBN-10: 1119012279

Structural engineering is central to the design of a building. How the building behaves when subjected to various forces – the weight of the materials used to build it, the weight of the occupants or the traffic it carries, the force of the wind etc – is fundamental to its stability. The alliance between architecture and structural engineering is therefore critical to the successful design and completion of the buildings and infrastructure that surrounds us. Yet structure is often cloaked in mathematics which many architects and surveyors find difficult to understand.

How Structures Work has been written to explain the behaviour of structures in a clear way without resorting to complex mathematics. This new edition includes a new chapter on construction materials, and significant revisions to, and reordering of the existing chapters. It is aimed at all who require a good qualitative understanding of structures and their behaviour, and as such will be of benefit to students of architecture, architectural history, building surveying and civil engineering. The straightforward, non-mathematical approach ensures it will also be suitable for a wider audience including building administrators, archaeologists and the interested layman.

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