Form and Forces: Designing Efficient, Expressive Structures [Hardcover]

Here, in one volume, is all the architect needs to know to participate in the entire process of designing structures. Emphasizing bestselling author Edward Allen's graphical approach, the book enables you to quickly determine the desired form of a building or other structure and easily design it without the need for complex mathematics. This unique text teaches the whole process of structural design for architects, including selection of suitable materials, finding a suitable configuration, finding forces and size members, designing appropriate connections, and proposing a feasible method of erection. Chapters are centered on the design of a whole structure, from conception through construction planning.Project Team and Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1 Designing a Series of Suspension Footbridges.

Basic definitions of statics: Loads, Forces, Tension, Compression, Stress.

Free-body diagrams; Vectors and scalars; Static equilibrium of concurrent forces.

The force polygon and funicular polygon for funicular structures; Bow’s notation.

Detailing steel rod elements in tension and anchoring to rock.

Lateral stability; stiffening a tensile structure.

Construction detailing and planning.

2 Designing a Suspended Roof.

Designing and detailing a suspended roof.

Designing funicular curves with specified properties.

Families of funicular curves.

Static equilibrium.

Components of forces.

Steel cable fastenings and details.

Lateral bracing.

Regulating forces on masts and backstays.

3 Designing a Concrete Cylindrical Shell Roof.&l,