"Throughout history, people have constructed simple timber lattice shelters such as the tepee or yurt, covered with animal skins, leaves, grasses and woven fabrics. Over the last fifty years, more sophisticated webs of wood have emerged, with timber gridshells in particular beco…
Well-being in a building depends on a number of factors. Visuals, ventilation, heat, cooling, and acoustics are all key. Its efficiency relates not only to the design of a building; it can also be optimized and automated using the latest technologies and innovative environmental…
With some 600 photos and 4000 drawings and plans, the Wood Construction Manual is an comprehensive and indispensable reference work in the specialist literature on wood. This latest Construction Manual looks at all types of wood and wood materials, also presenting detailed infor…
The new edition of this book presents the basic principles of classical and matrix structural analysis. It provides a smooth transition from the classical approaches that are based on physical behaviour of structures in terms of their deflected shapes to a formal treatment of a …
Esta nueva edición de la ya clásica obra de Eduardo Torroja pone de manifiesto el extraordinario interés que sigue manteniendo para el lector especializado. En esta ocasión se han incluido algunas imágenes nuevas como apoyo a la revisión que hizo el propio autor para la segunda …
Esta nueva edición de la ya clásica obra de Eduardo Torroja pone de manifiesto el extraordinario interés que sigue manteniendo para el lector especializado. En esta ocasión se han incluido algunas imágenes nuevas como apoyo a la revisión que hizo el propio autor para la segunda …
Structures, Seventh Edition, offers single-volume coverage of all major topics in structural analysis and design. Focusing on how structures really work, the text discusses concepts from both engineering and architectural perspectives, exploring structural behavior, structural a…
Discover the theory of structural stability and its applications in crucial areas in engineering Structural Stability Theory and Practice: Buckling of Columns, Beams, Plates, and Shells combines necessary information on structural stability into a single, comprehensive resource …
