Research and Markets: How Structures Work: Design and Behaviour from Bridges to Buildings

DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/1877d6/how_structures_wor) has
announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "How Structures
Work: Design and Behaviour from Bridges to Buildings" to their offering.

The alliance between architecture and structural engineering is fundamental to
the design of the buildings and bridges around us. Anyone who needs or wants to
"understand" a building must have a good understanding of the structural
concepts involved. Yet "structure" is often cloaked in mathematics - which many
find difficult to get to grips with.

How Structures Work has been written to explain the behaviour of structures in a
clear way without resorting to complex mathematics. Using the minimum of
mathematics it explains the structural concepts clearly, illustrated by many
historical and contemporary examples, allowing readers to build up a general
understanding of structures. In this way they can easily comprehend the
structural aspects of buildings for themselves.

Primarily aimed at students who require a good qualitative understanding of the
behaviour of structures and their materials, it will be of particular interest
to students of architecture and building surveying, plus architectural
historians and conservationists. The straightforward, non-mathematical approach
ensures it will also be suitable for a wider audience including building
administrators, archaeologists and the interested layman.

Key Topics Covered:

Preface.

1 Brackets and Bridges.

2 Stiffening a Beam - Girder Bridges.

3 Arches and Suspension Bridges.

4 Bringing the Loads to the Ground - The Structural Scheme.

5 Safe as Houses? - Walls.

6 Frames - A Problem of Stability.

7 Floors and Beams - Deflections and Bending Moments.

8 Providing Shelter - Roofs.

9 Structures in a Three-dimensional World.

For more information visit
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/1877d6/how_structures_wor

Research and Markets
Laura Wood, Senior Manager
Fax from USA: 646-607-1907
Fax from rest of the world: +353-1-481-1716
press@researchandmarkets.com

Copyright Business Wire 2009