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This textbook offers an introductory course to structural mechanics for architects, including problems and solutions. It follows a completely different approach to structural mechanics than the usual books for engineering schools, making it much more attractive for architecture students and practitioners. It also offers a different point of view for engineering students, as it provides them with a more intuitive understanding of structural mechanics and the models therein.Instead of studying the classical theory of linear elasticity and then particularizing it to simple structures, this book analyzes structures in a historic and also typological order. The book starts with cable structures and stone arches, followed by trusses and, finally, frame structures made of beams. For every typology, the latest, state-of-the-art theory in the field is introduced in a very didactic way.

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Preface.- 1 An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics.- 2 Cable Structures.- 3 Arches.- 4 Trusses.- 5 Beams (I) Geometric Description and Internal Forces.- 6 Beams (II) Normal Stresses.- 7 Beams (III) Shear Stresses.- 8 Beams (IV) Torsion.- 9 Statically Indeterminate Structures.- Appendix A: Indicial Notation.- Index.

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      Publisher Springer International Publishing AG
      Published 13 June 2018
      ISBN-13 9783319729343
      978-3319729343
      ISBN-10 3319729349
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      Architectural structure and design Building construction and materials

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This textbook offers an introductory course to structural mechanics for architects, including problems and solutions. It follows a completely different approach to structural mechanics than the usual books for engineering schools, making it much more attractive for architecture students and practitioners. It also offers a different point of view for engineering students, as it provides them with a more intuitive understanding of structural mechanics and the models therein.Instead of studying the classical theory of linear elasticity and then particularizing it to simple structures, this book analyzes structures in a historic and also typological order. The book starts with cable structures and stone arches, followed by trusses and, finally, frame structures made of beams. For every typology, the latest, state-of-the-art theory in the field is introduced in a very didactic way.

      Table of Contents
      Preface.- 1 An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics.- 2 Cable Structures.- 3 Arches.- 4 Trusses.- 5 Beams (I) Geometric Description and Internal Forces.- 6 Beams (II) Normal Stresses.- 7 Beams (III) Shear Stresses.- 8 Beams (IV) Torsion.- 9 Statically Indeterminate Structures.- Appendix A: Indicial Notation.- Index.

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