Introduction. Laterally restrained and unrestrained steel beams. Buckling of columns, trusses and arches. Buckling of plate girders and box girders. Steel-concrete composite beams. Reinforced concrete beams. Reinforced concrete subjected to stress concentrations. Mechanics of crack control in concrete. Prestressed concrete. Timber.
Michael Byfield is a lecturer at the University of Southampton, UK and runs his own engineering consultancy. He was awarded the Parkman Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers and his research focuses on blast loading of buildings.
If you read this book, absorb its timeless principles and work your
way through the examples, you will learn a great deal and it will
serve you well in your career. --Allan Mann, FREng"The skill of the
structural engineer lies in creating possibilities where others see
the impossible. This skill requires years of nurture and practice,
which is why this book is a must have on any book shelf. It focuses
on the embedment of fundamental principles in structural mechanics
to design. Read it! Enjoy it! Apply it!"-- Tim Ibell, University of
Cambridge and past-president of the Institution of Structural
Engineers"Mike Byfield has hit on an essential first principle of
his own: To make things as simple as possible but no simpler. His
illustrations are deceptively minimal, but they demonstrate another
engineering first principle….to an engineer, a line is not just a
line….it is short-hand, code, for a real structure, responding to
mathematics, physics, environment, gravity, people, money, time,
weather. The structure to which these first principle should apply
are practical, useful, modest, connected to the rest of the
world….they have foundations, mass, structural integrity, and in
the right hands can be made to actually work beginning with the
principles in the book. Here is an approach that brings first
principles in an accessible way to everyone whether student
engineer or ancient practitioner. After all, why would any engineer
learn "second principles", without nailing the first ones first? As
I looked through his examples I found myself thinking: "You know
what, perhaps engineering’s not quite so hard after all…."-- Chris
Wise, FREng, HonFRIBA, Expedition, UK"I consider this book to be
good value for money. I would recommend it especially to those who
are interested in crossovers between building structure design and
bridge structure design."-- John Lyness in The Structural
Engineer"...simplifies and demystifies the theory of structural
design and, through practical examples, makes the principles simple
and easy to understand."-- Yancheng Cai in Civil Engineering
(Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers)
If you read this book, absorb its timeless principles and work your
way through the examples, you will learn a great deal and it will
serve you well in your career. --Allan Mann, FREng"The skill of the
structural engineer lies in creating possibilities where others see
the impossible. This skill requires years of nurture and practice,
which is why this book is a must have on any book shelf. It focuses
on the embedment of fundamental principles in structural mechanics
to design. Read it! Enjoy it! Apply it!"-- Tim Ibell, University of
Cambridge and past-president of the Institution of Structural
Engineers"Mike Byfield has hit on an essential first principle of
his own: To make things as simple as possible but no simpler. His
illustrations are deceptively minimal, but they demonstrate another
engineering first principle ... to an engineer, a line is not just
a line ... it is short-hand, code, for a real structure, responding
to mathematics, physics, environment, gravity, people, money, time,
weather. The structure to which these first principle should apply
are practical, useful, modest, connected to the rest of the
world... they have foundations, mass, structural integrity, and in
the right hands can be made to actually work beginning with the
principles in the book. Here is an approach that brings first
principles in an accessible way to everyone whether student
engineer or ancient practitioner. After all, why would any engineer
learn "second principles", without nailing the first ones first? As
I looked through his examples I found myself thinking: "You know
what, perhaps engineering's not quite so hard after all."-- Chris
Wise, FREng, HonFRIBA, Expedition, UK"I consider this book to be
good value for money. I would recommend it especially to those who
are interested in crossovers between building structure design and
bridge structure design."-- John Lyness in The Structural
Engineer"...simplifies and demystifies the theory of structural
design and, through practical examples, makes the principles simple
and easy to understand."-- Yancheng Cai in Civil Engineering
(Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers)
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