Description:Presented in a clear structure and user-friendly style, the book goes through all the structural aspects of a building and assesses the importance of the different components. The aim is to explain the structural behaviour of buildings, giving some of the basics of structures together with plenty of real-life examples and guidance. Essentially a practical book, it will not over-complicate the theoretical aspects but will explain the structural importance of the different parts of a building and examine common problems, the most frequent causes of structural failures and their remedies. The book provides a better understanding of the structural importance of the different parts of a building for building surveyors and designers as well as building control officers and building owners and shows how structures differ between modern and traditional buildings and, in particular, the likely failures if the structural components are not given proper consideration. The guidance here is 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 and the book will be relevant to new build, renovations, alterations, conversions or examining an existing structural problem.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Structural Design of Buildings. To get started finding Structural Design of Buildings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Description: Presented in a clear structure and user-friendly style, the book goes through all the structural aspects of a building and assesses the importance of the different components. The aim is to explain the structural behaviour of buildings, giving some of the basics of structures together with plenty of real-life examples and guidance. Essentially a practical book, it will not over-complicate the theoretical aspects but will explain the structural importance of the different parts of a building and examine common problems, the most frequent causes of structural failures and their remedies. The book provides a better understanding of the structural importance of the different parts of a building for building surveyors and designers as well as building control officers and building owners and shows how structures differ between modern and traditional buildings and, in particular, the likely failures if the structural components are not given proper consideration. The guidance here is 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 and the book will be relevant to new build, renovations, alterations, conversions or examining an existing structural problem.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Structural Design of Buildings. To get started finding Structural Design of Buildings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.