STRUCTURAL DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTURE

Structural Design for Architecture 114 Fig. 4.18 Museum of Decorative Arts, Frankfurt on Main, Germany, 1979-85. Richard Meier, ...

conforming to 'form-active'^7 shapes. Many, for example, are based on the parabola, which is the 'form-active' shape for uniform ...

Structural Design for Architecture 116 Fig. 4.20 Vitra Design Museum, Basel, Switzerland, 1987-89, Frank Gehry, architect. This ...

are obviously an important consideration in relation to the selection of concrete as the structural material for a building. 4.2 ...

Structural Design for Architecture concrete structure therefore tends to be both more time consuming and more costly than that o ...

delivered to the site in liquid, ready-mixed form. The mix proportions can, however, be specified by the building's designer and ...

Fig. 4.22 Cracking of the concrete, shown exaggerated here, is inevitable in the parts of reinforced concrete elements in which ...

small-diameter wires of high-tensile steel, are stretched to a predetermined tensile stress in a pre-stressing bed (Fig. 4.24). ...

Structural Design for Architecture permits much lighter and more slender elements to be achieved than is possible with ordinary ...

Fig. 4.26 The relationship between the ultimate strength of concrete and the water/cement ratio. This graph demon- strates that ...

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 4.27 If aggregate is to form an effective bulking agent the relative sizes of the partic ...

particles is larger than if the same bulk is pro- vided with a smaller number of larger particles. A final consideration in rela ...

Structural Design for Architecture are required to produce a unit volume of fully compacted fresh concrete and the principal fac ...

reinforcement." To appreciate the way in which the two materials interact it is necessary to visualise the distribution of stres ...

Fig. 4.32 Failure of an unreinforced concrete beam. The unreinforced beam fails as a result of the formation of a crack situated ...

Fig. 4.34 Shear failure of a reinforced concrete beam. The beam depicted in Fig. 4.33 eventually fails due to the formation of a ...

4.4 Structural forms for reinforced concrete 4.4.1 Basic elements Beams Reinforced concrete beams are normally either rectangula ...

Reinforced concrete structures be adopted for columns is the need to avoid high slenderness, which would make the column suscept ...

Structural Design for Architecture Fig. 4.40 Coffered slab. The coffered slab is a two- way-spanning flat-slab structure (i.e. a ...

Fig. 4.41 Reinforced concrete stairs are simply one-way- spanning slabs which span between the landings. Fig. 4.42 Precast concr ...