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For courses in Structures or Structural Analysis and Design.

Structures offers single-volume coverage of all major topics in structural analysis and design. Focusing on how structures really work, the text discusses concepts from both engineering and architectural perspectives, exploring structural behavior, structural analysis, and design within a building context.

Structures: Pearson New International Edition

PART I: INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS

1. Structures: An Overview

2. Principles of Mechanics

3. Introduction to Structural Analysis and Design

PART II: ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS

4. Trusses

5. Funicular Structures: Cables and Arches

6. Beams

7. Members in Compression: Columns

8. Continuous Structures: Beams

9. Continuous Structures: Rigid Frames

10. Plate and Grid Structures

11. Membrane and Net Structures

12. Shell Structures

PART III: PRINCIPLES OF STRUCTURAL DESIGN

13. Structural Elements and Grids: General Design Strategies

14. Structural Systems: Design for Lateral Loadings

15. Structural Systems: Constructional Approaches

16. Structural Connections