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By
Rowland Mainstone, Consulting engineer and contributor to Banister Fletcher
Description
In the critically acclaimed first edition of this book, Mainstone offered a brilliant and highly original account of the structural developments
that have made possible the achievements of architects and bridge builders throughout history.
In this extensively revised and expanded
new edition, now available in paperback, new insights and a full coverage of recent developments in both design and construction are
incorporated. The book identifies features that distinguish the forms built by man from those shaped by nature and discusses the physical
and other constraints on the choices that can be made. It then looks in turn at all the elementary forms - arches, domes, beams, slabs
and the like - which combine into the more complex forms of complete structures, and at the different classes of the complete forms themselves.
The development of each form is traced chronologically, but with an emphasis less on the chronology than on the problems that designers
have continually faced in trying to serve new ends with limited means or to serve old ones in new ways. The book concludes with a chapter
on the processes of design, showing how the designer's freedom of choice has been widened by a growing understanding of structural behaviour.
Audience
Architects, structural engineers, architectural historians
Contents
Preface; Part 1: Introductory: Introduction; Structural actions and materials; Construction and form; Structure and form; Part 2: Structural
elements: Arches, vaults, domes, curved membranes, beams and slabs, trusses, portal frames, space frames, supports, walls, foundations;
Part 3: Complete structures: Early forms; Pre-nineteenth-century wide-span buildings; Nineteenth-and twentieth-century wide-span buildings;
Bridges; Multi-storey buildings and towers; Part 4: Design: Structural understanding and design.
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 384 pages, publication date: SEP-2001
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-5451-7
ISBN-10: 0-7506-5451-1
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
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