Shaping structures statics

This book uses the basic conditions of statics to show readers how to understand and create elegant, highly efficient forms for suspended and cable-stayed structures, arches, trusses, and shells. It offers a contextual understanding of the natural flow of forces and shows how to calculate the stress...

Full description

Main Author: Zalewski, Wacllaw
Other Authors: Allen, Edward
Published: New York John Wiley & Sons 1998
Subjects:
LEADER 01351cam a2200205 7i4500
001 0000029967
005 20091030090000.0
020 0 0 |a 0471169684 
090 0 0 |a TA648  |b .Z35 1998 
100 1 0 |a Zalewski, Wacllaw 
245 1 0 |a Shaping structures  |b statics  |c Wacllaw Zalewski and Edward Allen ; drawings by Joseph Iano 
260 0 0 |a New York  |b John Wiley & Sons  |c 1998 
300 |a vii, 408 p.  |b ill.  |c 23 x 28 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 404-405) and index 
520 |a This book uses the basic conditions of statics to show readers how to understand and create elegant, highly efficient forms for suspended and cable-stayed structures, arches, trusses, and shells. It offers a contextual understanding of the natural flow of forces and shows how to calculate the stresses of various forms using both numerical and graphical techniques. Throughout the book, the authors inspire their readers by analyzing and illustrating in detail the simple, powerful design techniques of the world's great engineers and architects. It is an innovative, highly visual book that can be used for the "statics" portion of the mandatory structures sequence in the architecture curriculum 
650 0 0 |a Statics 
650 0 0 |a Structural analysis (Engineering) 
700 1 1 |a Allen, Edward 
999 |a 17729 
999 |a 17729  |b Book  |c General Collection  |e JKR Library