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Make sure your next building project is free of the conceptual erros that can cause structural failure with Building Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide to Why Structures Work.
Packed with a wealth of informative diagrams and illustrations, this essential volume drills deep into the concepts behind structural systems to give you a critical understanding of how they work. From potential loads, load combinations, and superstructure to lateral support systems, foundations, and site soil and geology, Building Anatomy can help you design structures that will stand the test of time.
Written in easy-to-understand language by an award-winning architect and professor, Building Anatomy delivers easy access to critical information, to help you:
- Select structural systems based on the pros and cons of each system.
- Size and arrange major structural components.
- Identify concerns for each type of structural system.
- Anticipate probable failure scenarios.
- Explain each system's behavior under loads such as seismic and wind.
- Understand construction issues encountered during fabrication and erection of each structure type.
- And more!
Building Anatomy: An Illustrated Guide to Why Structures Work provides an understanding of the essential concepts behind structural systems, offering a unique visual approach to which system would work and which would not for each type of structure. Using this guide, you will be able to size and arrange the major components of a building, identify special structural concerns, anticipate probable failures, understand each system's behavior under stress, and understand construction issues related to fabrication and erection.
- Site studies reveal that structures usually fail due to conceptual rather than mathematical errors, and this valuable guide drastically reduces that margin of error.
From the Preface
Most architecture schools slowly reveal the secrets of building technology over the first three years of their programs. At the University of Oklahoma a clear decision was recently made to reveal the conceptual aspects of building technology in the first year with the math aspects following along in a more traditional manner. This has allowed students to immediately integrate structural behavior into their first design studio. The motivation for this text was born of that change. This is a book about technical concepts, alternatives, and choices directed at those just beginning their study of architecture, engineering, and construction. Initially basic structural fundamentals are introduced. Next traditional "families" of structures are described. Finally some assistance is offered to the young designer in selecting a structure from these alternative families. Since a traditional solution may not always be appropriate, an additional chapter concerning structural creativity has been provided. Because structure is a "life support" system, a chapter encouraging quality assurance was chosen to conclude this text.
This book is intended to be read from beginning to end, rather than used as a reference book. Later chapters will build upon the knowledge gained in previous chapters. Important words have been emphasized, and are grouped together in a "vocabulary" section at the end of each chapter. A set of study questions is also provided at the end of each chapter. All sources, end notes, and recommended readings have been collected in a single bibliography at the end of the text, rather than at the end of each chapter.
Where appropriate, photos of failed structures have been provided as illustrations. These have been collected by the author during disaster site reconnaissance over the past fifteen years.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Overview. Chapter 2: Process. Chapter 3: Structural Failure. Chapter 4: Loads. Chapter 5: Lateral Support. Chapter 6: Geology and Soil. Chapter 7: Foundations. Chapter 8: Cable Structures. Chapter 9: Arches. Chapter 10: Post and Beam. Chapter 11: Rigid Frames. Chapter 12: Bearing Wall and Slab. Chapter 13: Trusses. Chapter 14: Space Frames. Chapter 15: Folded Plates. Chapter 16: Vaults. Chapter 17: Domes. Chapter 18: Shells. Chapter 19: Tents. Chapter 20: Pneumatics. Chapter 21: Hybrids and Exotics. Chapter 22: Structural Selection. Chapter 23: Structural Creativity. Chapter 24: Quality Assurance.
About the Author:
Iver Wahl (Norman, OK) is an award-winning architect and an associate professor of architecture at the University of
Oklahoma where he teaches structures and architectural design. He is certified by the National
Council of Architectural Registration Boards and is a member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the Architectural Engineering Institute. He
has conducted disaster site reconnaissance for over 15 years, sometimes with the International
Center for Disaster Research in the United States or in cooperation with the Disaster Prevention Research Institute in Japan. This
work has included forensic analysis of collapsed buildings during or after earthquakes, typhoons, floods, tornadoes, terrorist bombings, riots, and war.
He received awards for his vertical rebound theory which offered an explanation for vertically collapsed buildings in the Kobe earthquake. |
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