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Structural design of buildings /
Presented in a clear structure and user-friendly style, Paul Smith's Structural Design of Buildings goes through all the structural aspects of a building and assesses the importance of the different components.
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Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom :
Wiley Blackwell,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- The development of building knowledge
- Styles of architecture and building construction
- 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.
- 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 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
- 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
- Grading of timber
- Moisture
- Air-dried timber
- Kiln-dried timber
- Dimensions of timber
- Shear
- Bending
- Deflection.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The importance of understanding geology
- Sinkholes
- Landslips
- Mining
- Loess
- Quick sand
- Seismic activity
- Drainage and the water table
- 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
- Disproportionate collapse
- Class 1
- Class 2A
- Class 2B
- Class 3
- Building Regulations Part A
- Slenderness ratio
- Buttresses and end restraints
- Lateral restraint of walls and roofs
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Daisy wheel
- The golden number or golden mean
- Pythagoras
- Masonic markings
- Ordnance datum bench marks.