| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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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Many people undertake, supervise or survey buildings without fully understanding and appreciating the key structural parameters in their construction. This essential on-site guide to the behaviour of a building's structure gives some of the basics of structures, together with plenty of real-life examples. Essentially a practical book, it does not over-complicate the theoretical aspects but explains the structural importance of the different parts of a building and examines common problems ùthe most frequent causes of structural failures ù and their remedies |
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Written for building surveyors and designers, as well as building control officers and building owners, the book explains how structures differ between modern and traditional buildings and, in particular, the likely failures if the structural components are not given proper consideration |
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This is a resource forthe planning stages and also for use on site. The guidance offered has been developed from the author's many years of responding to requests from building professionals for clarification of the behaviour of the structural elements of buildings. The book is relevant to new builds, renovations, alterations, conversions or when examining an existing structural problem; it covers both domestic and commercial buildings. --Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Structural design.
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Building -- Details.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Construction -- General.
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Building -- Details
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Structural design
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015047715 |
| ISBN |
9781118839386 |
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1118839382 |
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9781118865507 |
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1118865502 |
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9781118839393 |
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1118839390 |
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9781118839409 |
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1118839404 |
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1118839412 |
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9781118839416 |
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