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Understanding structures : analysis, materials, design / Derek Seward.

By: Material type: TextTextBasingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Edition: Fifth editionDescription: viii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781137376565
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 624.17 SE.U 2014 23
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Design -- 2. Basics -- 3. Materials -- 4. Loads -- 5. Pin-jointed trusses -- 6. Tension -- 7. Beams -- 8.Compression -- 9.Combined axial and bending stresses -- 10. Torsion -- 11. Connections -- 12. Arches and portal frames -- 13. Foundations and retaining walls -- 14. Deflection -- 15. Indeterminate structures and computers.
Summary: This is an introductory text for undergraduate students of civil engineering, building, surveying and architecture. It deals with the topics of structural analysis, materials and design and introduces all three topics in an integrated way so that the reader can quickly tackle the task of designing real structures.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Design -- 2. Basics -- 3. Materials -- 4. Loads -- 5. Pin-jointed trusses -- 6. Tension -- 7. Beams -- 8.Compression -- 9.Combined axial and bending stresses -- 10. Torsion -- 11. Connections -- 12. Arches and portal frames -- 13. Foundations and retaining walls -- 14. Deflection -- 15. Indeterminate structures and computers.

This is an introductory text for undergraduate students of civil engineering, building, surveying and architecture. It deals with the topics of structural analysis, materials and design and introduces all three topics in an integrated way so that the reader can quickly tackle the task of designing real structures.

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