The alliance between architecture and structural engineering isfundamental to the design of the buildings and bridges around us.Anyone who needs or wants to "understand" a buildingmust 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 thebehaviour of structures in a clear way without resorting to complexmathematics. Using the minimum of mathematics it explains thestructural concepts clearly, illustrated by many historical andcontemporary examples, allowing readers to build up a generalunderstanding of structures. In this way they can easily comprehendthe structural aspects of buildings for themselves.
Primarily aimed at students who require a good qualitativeunderstanding of the behaviour of structures and their materials,it will be of particular interest to students of architecture andbuilding surveying, plus architectural historians andconservationists. The straightforward, non-mathematical approachensures it will also be suitable for a wider audience includingbuilding administrators, archaeologists and the interestedlayman.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781405190176
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-9017-6
- Verlag: Wiley¿Blackwell
- Erscheinungstermin: 10.07.2009
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2009
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 465 g
- Seiten: 262
- Format (B x H x T): 173 x 243 x 18 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt