For the first time in nearly 40 years, here is a completely new professional handbook for designing structural systems in architecture.

Based on a thorough examination of all the old formulas and guidelines in light of the latest environmental research and digital technology, this volume provides essential criteria for designing wood, steel, aluminum, concrete, masonry, even fabric structures for any building, from total systems to tiny details.

Best of all, this book's interactive ce-rom allows you to solve the most complex problems at lightning speed! It's incredibly easy. Simply access the formula you need, click on the variable you want to solve, enter numerical values for the other unknowns, click compute and there's your answer! No math! No mistakes!

Together, this thick volume and its accompanying cd offer you fingertip access to these invaluable aids and features:

• Text guidelines for selecting and sizing more than 220 structural system components in modern buildings
• New and accurate formulas for impact loads, horizontal shear, metal decking, staircases, and many more design scenarios
• Concise no-math menus for each formula that describes each unknown (no more rummaging through the text for the meaning of an unknown)
• 360 illustrations and 57 sizing tables that summarize vital data
• Latest developments regarding computerized operation of buidings, from tiny detectors to total management systems
• Latest environmental considerations relating to sitting and comfort

Contents

Tables

1. Introduction

2. Structural Basics
   General
   Loads and Forces
   Structural Systems

3. Wood
   General
   Beams
   Floor and Roof Systems
   Columns
   Bracing
   Connections
   Oblique Loads

4. Steel
   General
   Beams
   Trusses
   Floor and Roof Systems
   Columns
   Bracing
   Connections

5. Concrete
   General
   Beams
   Floor and Roof Systems
   Columns
   Walls
   Bracing
   Connections
   Footings

6. Masonry
   General
   Nonreinforced Masonry
   Reinforced Masonry
   Earth Construction

7. Other Structure
   Aluminum
   Plastic
   Fabric Structures
   Seismic Design

8. Design
   General
   Land Use
   Access Drives
   Excavation
   Circulation
   Occupancies
   Opening Areas
   Color Composition
   Plan Geometry
   Fire Safet
   Accessibility
   Waste handling
   Computer-Aided Design

Appendices

• Useful Formulas
• Derivation of Formulas

Index

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