Elementary Structures for Architects and Builders

Table of Contents

1. Overview

2. Statics

3. Structural Properties of Areas

4. Stress and Strain

5. Properties of Structural Materials

6. Shear and Moment

7. Flexural Stresses

8. Shearing Stresses

9. Deflection and Indeterminate Beams

10. Beam Design and Framing

11. Elastic Buckling of Columns

12. Trusses

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A DERIVATION OF BASIC FLEXURAL STRESS EQUATION

APPENDIX B DERIVATION OF BASIC HORIZONTAL SHEARING STRESS EQUATION

APPENDIX C DERIVATION OF EULER COLUMN BUCKLING EQUATION

APPENDIX D WEIGHTS OF SELECTED BUILDING MATERIALS

APPENDIX E PROPERTIES OF SELECTED MATERIALS

APPENDIX F PROPERTIES OF AREAS

APPENDIX G PROOF OF MOMENT-AREA THEOREMS

APPENDIX H ALLOWABLE STRESSES AND MODULUS OF ELASTICITY VALUES FOR SELECTED STRUCTURAL SAWN LUMBER

APPENDIX I WOOD SECTION PROPERTIES

APPENDIX J PROPERTIES OF SELECTED STEEL SECTIONS

APPENDIX K SHEAR, MOMENT, AND DEFLECTION EQUATIONS

APPENDIX L INTRODUCTION TO THE SI METRIC SYSTEM

ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS

INDEX