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- Presents a new geometric method of structural analysis - Offers
new, geometric and visually engaging Muller-Breslau Method tools -
An essential resource for architecture and engineering students and
instructors that is novel and geometric - Includes over 300 black
and white illustrations - Includes open-ended, three dimensional
student exercises throughout
- Presents a new geometric method of structural analysis - Offers
new, geometric and visually engaging Muller-Breslau Method tools -
An essential resource for architecture and engineering students and
instructors that is novel and geometric - Includes over 300 black
and white illustrations - Includes open-ended, three dimensional
student exercises throughout
Understanding how gravity loads and wind and earthquake loads flow
through a building is of utmost importance to all structural
engineers and architects. Paradoxically, this critical idea is
practically not addressed in any textbook on the market. Meant as a
companion to the author's Structures: A Geometric Approach, this
textbook fills that need with qualitative techniques as well as
quantitative tools that use state of the art visual representation
of forces and deformations in structures. Structures: A Studio
Approach reaches out to both structural engineers and designers by
presenting structural engineering topics in an interdisciplinary
studio environment. Using many graphical techniques, it offers a
very rigorous approach, but also enables creativity. Cutting edge
finite element as well as parametric modeling tools are used, and
state of the art visual representations of force flow help both
groups of students realize that understanding three dimensional
load flow in a building is a requirement for channeling that flow
in a structurally efficient and visually expressive manner.
Ultimately, the reader is able to develop a unique structural
sensibility; an ethos that places structural design on an equal
footing with the design of program, skin, massing and site.
Understanding how gravity loads and wind and earthquake loads flow
through a building is of utmost importance to all structural
engineers and architects. Paradoxically, this critical idea is
practically not addressed in any textbook on the market. Meant as a
companion to the author's Structures: A Geometric Approach, this
textbook fills that need with qualitative techniques as well as
quantitative tools that use state of the art visual representation
of forces and deformations in structures. Structures: A Studio
Approach reaches out to both structural engineers and designers by
presenting structural engineering topics in an interdisciplinary
studio environment. Using many graphical techniques, it offers a
very rigorous approach, but also enables creativity. Cutting edge
finite element as well as parametric modeling tools are used, and
state of the art visual representations of force flow help both
groups of students realize that understanding three dimensional
load flow in a building is a requirement for channeling that flow
in a structurally efficient and visually expressive manner.
Ultimately, the reader is able to develop a unique structural
sensibility; an ethos that places structural design on an equal
footing with the design of program, skin, massing and site.
Graphic methods for structural design essentially translate
problems of algebra into geometric representations, allowing
solutions to be reached using geometric construction (ie: drawing
pictures) instead of tedious and error-prone arithmetic. This was
the common method before the invention of calculators and
computers, but had been largely abandoned in the last half century
in favor of numerical techniques. However, in recent years the
convenience and ease of graphic statics has made a comeback in
architecture and engineering. Several professors have begun using
graphic statics in the classroom.and.studio environment. But until
now, there had been no guidebook that rapidly brings students up to
speed on the fundamentals of how to create graphical solutions to
statics problems.Graphic Statics introduces all of the traditional
graphic statics techniques in a parametric drawing format, using
the free program GeoGebra. Then, advanced topics such as
indeterminate beams and three dimensional curved surfaces are be
covered. Along the way, links to wider design ideas are introduced
in a succinct summary of the steps needed to create elegant
solutions to many staticequilibrium problems.Meant for students in
civil and architectural engineering, architecture,and construction,
this practical introduction will also be useful to professionals
looking to add the power of graphic statics to their work.
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