STRUCTURAL DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTURE

Fig. 5.35 Plans of walls showing various arrangements for incorporating vertical reinforcing bars. These give the walls the abil ...

4 The bending action which results from the application of out-of-plane forces to the external walls is minimised by providing l ...

Fig. 5.39 Tall single-storey building. A roof structure of timber or steel girders is supported on high masonry walls. Such buil ...

Masonry structures Fig. 5.40 Action of tall single-storey building in response to wind loading. The high walls span vertically b ...

Structural Design for Architecture sive collapse cannot occur and specify limits within which the collapse which is caused by a ...

Chapter 6 Timber structures 6.1 Introduction Timber is a structural material with a useful combination of physical properties. A ...

Structural Design for Architecture structures therefore involves the joining together of many separate components. Joints and co ...

Timber structures Fig. 6.3 Primary-secondary system. The primary elements here are laminated timber portal frames. These carry p ...

Structural Design for Architecture the least efficient type of structural element.^1 The maximum span which is possible is deter ...

supporting walls. Most earlier truss systems were hybrid arrangements in which some trian- gulation was used but which also reli ...

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 6.7 St Peter's Basilica, Rome, 4th century CE. A fully triangulated timber structure, wh ...

6.9). Both of these buildings are of the fourth century CE. They each consisted of a high central nave flanked by lower aisles. ...

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 6.11 The medieval half- timbered house was basically a loadbearing-wall structure. The w ...

The construction of half-timbered buildings declined in the seventeenth century for economic reasons. The very large sections of ...

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 6.14 The timber wallframe is a loadbearing-wall structure built up from sawn-timbered el ...

Timber structures Fig. 6.15 Ragnitz Church Hall, Graz, Austria, Szyszkowitz and Kowalski, architects. The roof of this building ...

Structural Design for Architecture are the practice of stress grading and the evolution of greatly improved jointing techniques. ...

reinforced concrete. This restricts the size of span which can be achieved and the number of storeys which can be constructed in ...

Structural Design for Architecture suitable for structures of moderately large span, especially if the level of imposed load is ...

the interiors of the cells and the only physical change which this causes is a reduction in density. At a moisture content of ar ...