Structural Engineering Art and Approximation - Softcover

Morrison, Hugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1917336861 ISBN 13: 9781917336864

Publisher: Hugh Morrison, 2024

Synopsis

"It is better to be roughly night than precisely wrong." John Maynard Keynes

LOOK INSIDE? Samples and chapter summaries may be found on the website www.struartapp.com

This book contains approximate structural calculation methods for engineers and architects. For easy reference and assimilation it is broken down into categories from simple beams to more complex examples. With numerous figures and photographs it closely relates theory to real structures. Engineering structures is mostly formally taught in a lecture room with little time devoted to real examples. On graduation an engineer has to cope with turning this eagerly acquired knowledge into reality. To make sense of this a designer needs to be able to test their ideas with a simple set of tools which involve little more than pen, paper and calculator. Architects often wonder if there is an easier way to evaluate alternative structural solutions in their designs.

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About the Author

Book Website: www.struartapp.com - Hugh graduated in Architectural Engineering from Leeds University in 1984. He has worked at: British Aerospace on space structures, Arup Associates and Arup in London, Anthony Hunt Associates, Stephen Morley Partnership and was a director at Scott Hughes Design. He set up Hugh Morrison Associates in 2010, a sole trading company, further developing his expertise in SIPs, timber frame and special structures such as glass staircases.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hugh Morrison
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1917336861
• ISBN 13: 9781917336864
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 170