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Form and forces : designing efficient, expressive structures /

Title:
Form and forces : designing efficient, expressive structures /
Format:
Book
Institution:
MassArt, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Contents:
Designing a series of suspension footbridges -- Designing a suspended roof -- Designing a concrete cylindrical shell roof -- Master lesson: designing a trussed roof -- Designing a building on a vertical site -- Designing with multipanel trusses -- Designing a fanlike roof -- Designing unreinforced masonry -- Master lesson: designing a concrete shell roof for a grandstand -- Desiging efficient trusses -- Designing restraints for funicular structures -- Designing shell and membrane structures -- Structural materials -- Master lesson: designing with the flow of forces -- Designing a bay of framing -- Bending actions on beams -- How beams resist bending -- Bending resistance in beams of any shape -- Designing columns, frames, and load-bearing walls -- Designing a sitecast concrete building -- Master lesson: designing in precast concrete -- Designing an entrance canopy -- Afterword: engineers and architects.

Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
MassArt Main
TA658 .F67 2010Available
Wentworth Stacks--Upper Level
624.1771 .F67 2010Available