Basic Structural Engineering Principles

Basic Structural Engineering Principles

This book seeks to introduce non-engineering construction professionals to the principles of structural design from the initial calculation of loads, to the calculation of the internal actions in members resulting from such loads and finally to a comparison between those internal actions and the member capacities. The design process will be illustrated with reference particularly to timber design but the design of reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete, steel, brick and glass is also presented in a simplified approach.

Principles of Structural Design

Many important advances in designing high-performance structures have occurred over the last several years. Structural engineers need an authoritative source of information that thoroughly and concisely covers the foundational principles of the field. Comprising chapters selected from the second edition of the best-selling Handbook of Structural Engineering, this book provides a tightly focused, economical guide to the theoretical, practical, and computational aspects of structural design. Expert contributors discuss a wide variety of structures, including steel, aluminum, timber, and prestressed concrete, as well as reliability-based design and structures based on wind engineering.

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