Part 1 book "Basic structures for engineers and architects" includes content: What is structural engineering; learn the language; how do structures (and parts of structures) behave; force, mass and weight; loading – dead or alive; equilibrium – a balanced approach; more about forces - resultants and components; moments; reactions; different types of support – and what's a pin; a few words about stability; introduction to the analysis of pin-jointed frames; method of resolution at joints. |
