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Contents of Structure For Architects
- CHAPTER Architects, Engineers, and Design
- CHAPTER Stability and Strength
- CHAPTER Loads
- Gravity Loads
- Lateral Loads
- Dynamic Loads
- Impact Loads
- Load Paths
- CHAPTER States of Stress
- Tension
- Compression
- Shear
- Torsion
- Bending
- CHAPTER Forces, Movement, Levers, and Moment
- Applied and Reactive Forces
- Translational Movement
- Rotational Movement
- Levers
- Moment
- CHAPTER Stability and Equilibrium
- Introduction
- Translational Equilibrium
- Rotational Equilibrium
- Sign Conventions
- The Equilibrium Equations
- Free-Body Diagrams and Familiar Examples of Equilibrium
- Introduction to Bending in Beams
- CHAPTER Working with Forces
- Forces, Vectors, and Lines of Action
- Combining and Resolving Concurrent Forces
- Familiar Examples of Concurrent Forces
- CHAPTER Supports, Reactions, and Restraint of Movement
- Roller and Frictionless-Surface Supports
- Pinned Supports
- Fixed Supports
- Hanger Supports
- Familiar Examples of Support Conditions
- Stable or Unstable?
- CHAPTER Load Distribution
- Point Loads
- Distributed Loads
- Equivalent Point Loads
- Uniformly Distributed Loads
- Non-Uniformly Distributed Loads
- CHAPTER Introduction to Beams
- Beam Types
- Predicting Deformation, Deflection, and Beam Behavior
- CHAPTER Introduction to Trusses
- Introduction
- Trusses as Beams
- Types of Trusses
- Design Considerations
- Truss Joints
- Truss Loading
- Truss Analysis
- CHAPTER Structural Walls
- Loads and Deformational Stresses
- Stresses and Wall Construction
- Retaining Walls
- CHAPTER Soils and Rock
- The Earth’s Interior
- The Earth’s Crust
- Natural Soils
- Groundwater
- Engineered Fill
- Foundation Settlement
- Soil-Bearing Capacity and Subsurface Conditions
- CHAPTER Foundations
- Shallow Foundations
- Deep Foundations
- CHAPTER Summing Up
