Developments in Structural FormIn 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. |
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Table des matières
Early forms | |
Columnandbeam temples and palace and public halls | |
Tombs pyramids and some other structures | |
Prenineteenthcentury widespan buildings | |
Early domed churches and related later churches and mosques | |
PreGothic timberroofed and stonevaulted churches | |
Timber barns and Gothic stonevaulted churches | |
Seventeenth and eighteenthcentury vaulted and domed | |
Structural aspects | |
The effects of deformations occurring during construction | |
Structure and form | |
Simple elemental forms | |
Origins | |
Timber iron and steel arches | |
Catenaries | |
Concrete and masonry groined and ribbed vaults | |
Thin reinforcedconcrete shells | |
Airsupported and pneumatic membranes | |
Reinforcedmasonry beams | |
Floor and deck systems and slabs | |
Trussed equivalents of the beam and arch | |
Trussed and framed analogues | |
Proportions | |
Nineteenth and twentiethcentury widespan | |
Bridges | |
Timber iron steel and reinforcedconcrete arch bridges | |
Beam including cantilever bridges | |
Simple cable and stressedribbon bridges | |
Cablestayed bridges | |
Multistorey buildings and towers | |
Towers | |
Pretwentiethcentury bearingwall buildings | |
Nineteenth and earlytwentieth century fullyframed buildings | |
Later twentiethcentury framed and bearingwall buildings | |
Taller framed and corestiffened buildings of the 1960s | |
Later twentiethcentury taller framed and corestiffened | |
Structural understanding and design | |
Further developments from the nineteenth century to the mid | |
Changes and underlying continuities | |
Notes | |
Structural elements | |
Indexes | |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
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