An Introduction to Structural Mechanics for Architects (Structural Integrity, 4)

This textbook offers an introductory course to structural mechanics for architects, including problems and solutions. It follows a completely different approach to structural mechanics than the usual books for engineering schools, making it much more attractive for architecture students and practitioners. It also offers a different point of view for engineering students, as it provides them with a more intuitive understanding of structural mechanics and the models therein. Instead of studying the classical theory of linear elasticity and then particularizing it to simple structures, this book analyzes structures in a historic and also typological order. The book starts with cable structures and stone arches, followed by trusses and, finally, frame structures made of beams. For every typology, the latest, state-of-the-art theory in the field is introduced in a very didactic way. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics (Elías Cueto, David González)....Pages 1-31 Cable Structures (Elías Cueto, David González)....Pages 33-54 Arches (Elías Cueto, David González)....Pages 55-73 Trusses (Elías Cueto, David González)....Pages 75-101 Beams (I): Geometric Description and Internal Forces (Elías Cueto, David González)....Pages 103-126 Beams (II). Normal Stresses (Elías Cueto, David González)....Pages 127-146 Beams (III). Shear Stresses (Elías Cueto, David González)....Pages 147-167 Beams (IV). Torsion (Elías Cueto, David González)....Pages 169-190 Statically Indeterminate Structures (Elías Cueto, David González)....Pages 191-225 Back Matter ....Pages 227-235