High-Rise Building Structures - Hardcover

Schueller, Wolfgang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0898748356 ISBN 13: 9780898748352

Publisher: Krieger Pub Co, 1986

Synopsis

"This book presents an orderly, comprehensive survey of high-rise structures with a strong emphasis on the visual presentation of structural concetps such as the nature of external forces, the response of different structure systems to force action, and the structure as an assemblage system of components."

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About the Author

Wolfgang Schueller, P.E., is a licensed structural engineer, an architect, and a retired professor of architecture. His experience in industry includes the design and construction of apartment buildings,industrial buildings, subsurface structures and bridges in the United States and abroad. His teaching positions include full professorships at the schools of architecture of Syracuse University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), and the University of Florida, as well as visiting professorships at several foreign universities.  He holds degrees in civil engineering, architectural engineering and architecture. He is a member of the honor societies Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi; he is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, Who's Who in American Education, and Who's Who in Science and Engineering.  He has presented papers, written book critiques, delivered seminars and public lectures on various topics on the relationship between design engineering - structural engineering in particular - and architecture, in the USA as well as in numerous countries in Asia. He has given workshops at several Chinese and Indian universities on: The Building Support Structure in Architecture: a visual analysis and design of structures with computers using SAP2000.
Among his five book publications, his most recent ones are:
·Building Support Structures, Analysis and Design with SAP2000 Software, 2nd ed., eBook by Wolfgang Schueller, 2015. The SAP2000V15 Examples and Problems SDB files are available on  the Computers & Structures, Inc. (CSI) website: csiamerica.com/go/schueller
·The Design of Building Structures (Vol.1, Vol. 2), rev. ed., PDF eBook by Wolfgang Schueller, 2016,  published originally by Prentice Hall, 1996, 868 pages
·Several lectures in support of the books are available at the Scribd Library    (scribd.com/wolfschueller ) as well as  LinkedIn SlideShare

Edition details

• Publisher: Krieger Pub Co
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898748356
• ISBN 13: 9780898748352
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 274