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" Structural design of buildings / "
Paul Smith
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BL
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662237
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Smith, Paul,1966 October 17-
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Structural design of buildings /\ Paul Smith
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1 online resource
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9781118839386
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: 1118839382
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: 9781118839393
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: 1118839390
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9781118865507
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1118865502
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9781118839416 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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The History of Buildings -- The development of building knowledge -- Styles of architecture and building construction -- Loadings and Aspects of Structural Theory Relating to Buildings -- Weight and mass -- Permanent actions or dead loads -- Variable actions or imposed loads -- Wind load -- Accidental actions -- Seismic action -- BS EN 1991: Actions on structures EC1 -- Combinations of load and factors of safety -- Stress -- Strain -- Young's modulus or modulus of elasticity -- Plastic deformation -- Buckling -- Local buckling -- Second moment of area -- Centre of gravity -- Lateral torsional buckling -- Neutral axis -- Bending force -- Shear force and bending moment -- Deflection -- Static equilibrium -- Internal forces -- Derivation of shear force -- Derivation of bending moment -- Derivation of deflection -- Basic theory of bending -- Moment of resistance -- Combined bending and direct stress -- External and internal statically determinate structures -- Connections and restraints -- Stiffness -- Buildings and load paths -- The Construction of Buildings -- Breathable and non-breathable construction -- Timber frame -- Stone -- Modern timber frame construction -- Solid brick construction -- Cavity construction -- Steel construction -- Commercial steel portal frames -- Precast concrete construction -- Steel -- Steel properties -- Lateral torsional buckling -- The effect of end restraints on a beam -- Bending failure -- Local buckling -- Shear failure -- Web bearing and buckling -- Deflection -- Fire and corrosion -- Concrete -- The history of cement and concrete -- Cement -- Water and workability - now known as consistence -- Failure of concrete -- Strength of concrete -- Concrete mix designs -- Creep -- Environment -- Air-entrained concrete -- Accelerators and retarders -- Plasticizers -- Fly ash, silica flume and ground granulated blast furnace slag -- Anti-corrosion -- Timber -- Grading of timber -- Moisture -- Air-dried timber -- Kiln-dried timber -- Dimensions of timber -- Shear -- Bending -- Deflection -- Foundations -- Purpose of foundations -- The history of foundations -- Building Regulation requirements -- Stepped foundation -- Types of foundation -- Piles -- Bearing pressure -- Bearing capacity -- Eccentric loading on foundations -- Climatic and moisture changes -- Physical damage by trees -- Underpinning -- Walls -- The strength of walls -- Masonry unit -- Frost resistance and soluble salts -- Concrete blocks -- Mortar -- Lime putty (non-hydraulic lime) -- Hydraulic lime -- Important rules in the use of lime mortars -- Cement -- Characteristic strength of masonry -- Slenderness ratio -- Flexural stiffness and the second moment of area -- Euler load -- Leaning walls and stability -- Movement joints -- Changes due to temperature changes -- Changes due to moisture changes -- Traditional design of walls -- Middle-third rule -- Timber frame walls and raking -- Floors -- The History of floors -- Modern solid floors -- Suspended floors and engineered floor joists -- Holes and notches in floor joists -- Limecrete -- The use of plaster and lime ash floors -- Beam and block suspended floors and hollow core floors -- Damp -- Salts -- Sulphate attack -- Ceilings -- Roofs -- Trussed and cut roofs -- Modern truss roofs -- Cut roofs -- Roof components -- Wind bracing -- Roof spread -- Overloading of roof members -- Alterations to roof structures -- Traditional timber frame building trusses -- Modern rafter design -- Flat roof construction -- Arches And Columns -- The history of arches -- Inversion theory -- Line of thrust -- Formation of hinges -- Visible line of thrust -- Height and thickness of an arch -- Gothic arch -- Domes -- Columns -- Geology -- The importance or understanding geology -- Sinkholes -- Landslips -- Mining -- Loess -- Quick sand -- Seismic activity -- Drainage and the water table -- Site Investigation -- Site investigation -- Boreholes -- Trenches -- Geophysics -- Gravity surveys -- Magnetic surveys -- Electromagnetic surveys -- Electrical surveys -- Ground-penetrating radar -- Seismic reflection surveys -- Seismic refraction -- Made-up ground or fill -- Walkover -- Japanese knotweed -- Buddleia -- Desk study -- Radon -- Stability of Buildings -- Disproportionate collapse -- Class 1 -- Class 2A -- Class 2B -- Class 3 -- Dimension of Buildings -- Building Regulations Part A -- Slenderness ratio -- Buttresses and end restraints -- Lateral restraint of walls and roofs -- Basements and Retaining Structures -- Structural considerations -- Safety factors -- Theory behind the design -- Loading -- Angle of shearing resistance -- Effects of water -- Proportions of walls -- Design example -- Specialist advice -- Types of wall -- Basements -- Structural Alterations -- Preliminary considerations -- Removal of walls -- Alterations to timbers and trusses -- Alterations to roof structures for dormers -- Loft conversions -- Flitch beams -- Lintels and openings -- Structural Defects in Buildings -- Structural defects -- Compression -- Tension -- Shear -- Random cracking -- Location of cracking -- Roof spread -- Settlement -- Shrinkage due to thermal and moisture movements -- Movement of brickwork along the damp-proof course -- Subsidence -- Chemical reactions -- High alumina cement (HAC) -- Wall tie failure -- Damp -- Overloading -- Professional advice -- The Ancient Use of Sign and Geometry in the Setting Out of Buildings -- Daisy wheel -- The golden number or golden mean -- Pythagoras -- Masonic markings -- Ordnance datum bench marks
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Structural design.
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Building-- Details.
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690/.1
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TA658
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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