In the critically acclaimed first edition of this book, Mainstone
offered a brilliant and highly original account of the structural
developments that have made possible the achievements of architects
and bridge builders throughout history. In this extensively revised
and expanded new edition, now available in paperback, new insights
and a full coverage of recent developments in both design and
construction are incorporated. The book identifies features that
distinguish the forms built by man from those shaped by nature and
discusses the physical and other constraints on the choices that
can be made. It then looks in turn at all the elementary forms -
arches, domes, beams, slabs and the like - which combine into the
more complex forms of complete structures, and at the different
classes of the complete forms themselves. The development of each
form is traced chronologically, but with an emphasis less on the
chronology than on the problems that designers have continually
faced in trying to serve new ends with limited means or to serve
old ones in new ways. The book concludes with a chapter on the
processes of design, showing how the designer's freedom of choice
has been widened by a growing understanding of structural
behaviour.
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