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This new resource covers the material selection, structural design
and connections detailing of truly sustainable timber buildings
through: consideration of the nature of wood and the heritage of
timber construction, including the importance of forestry and
conservation a review of modern techniques to improve the
durability, fire resistance and predictability of structural timber
elements and their vital connections analysis of the many
architectural and structural options, from roundwood shells through
glulam arches and gridshells to long span hybrid structures case
studies from around the world illustrating the principles discussed
and the true potential of timber construction Historically there
has been an imbalance between the availability of information on
structural timber design and the much more widespread familiarity
with traditional structural materials such as steel and concrete.
This book aims to help redress the balance by presenting the
essential design principles involved in the creation of elegant,
user-friendly timber buildings that are practical, economic, and
thoroughly sustainable. Designed to support specialist study into
the benefits of 21st Century timber engineering, this book also
offers architects, engineers and other construction professionals
practical advice on all aspects of modern timber architecture.
This new resource covers the material selection, structural design
and connections detailing of truly sustainable timber buildings
through: consideration of the nature of wood and the heritage of
timber construction, including the importance of forestry and
conservation a review of modern techniques to improve the
durability, fire resistance and predictability of structural timber
elements and their vital connections analysis of the many
architectural and structural options, from roundwood shells through
glulam arches and gridshells to long span hybrid structures case
studies from around the world illustrating the principles discussed
and the true potential of timber construction Historically there
has been an imbalance between the availability of information on
structural timber design and the much more widespread familiarity
with traditional structural materials such as steel and concrete.
This book aims to help redress the balance by presenting the
essential design principles involved in the creation of elegant,
user-friendly timber buildings that are practical, economic, and
thoroughly sustainable. Designed to support specialist study into
the benefits of 21st Century timber engineering, this book also
offers architects, engineers and other construction professionals
practical advice on all aspects of modern timber architecture.
This book examines in detail two of the fundamental questions
raised by quantum mechanics. Is the world indeterministic? Are
there connections between spatially separated objects? In the first
part of the book after outlining the formalism of quantum mechanics
and introducing the measurement problem, the author examines
several interpretations, focusing on how each proposes to solve the
measurement problem and on how each treats probability. In the
second part, the author argues that there can be non-trivial
relationships between probability (specifically, determinism and
indeterminism) and non-locality in an interpretation of quantum
mechanics. The author then re-examines some of the interpretations
of part one of the book in the light of this argument, and
considers how they are with regard to locality and Lorentz
invariance. One of the important lessons that comes out of this
discussion is that any examination of locality, and of the
relationship between quantum mechanics and the theory of
relativity, should be undertaken in the context of a detailed
interpretation of quantum mechanics. The book will appeal to anyone
with an interest in the interpretation of quantum mechanics,
including researchers in the philosophy of physics and theoretical
physics, as well as graduate students in those fields.
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