Kết cấu xây dựng là cơ kết cấu của các cấu kiện xây dựng. Kết tiếng Hán (結) có nghĩa là thắt nút, liên kết và cấu (構) có nghĩa là làm ra, tạo ra hay tác phẩm. Kết cấu hoặc tĩnh học (tiếng Anh là statics, tiếng Đức là Statik) trong tiếng Hy Lạp cổ là statike (techne) có nghĩa (nghệ thuật của) cân bằng, hoặc statikos là mang lại trạng thái cân bằng. | DESIGN OF MASONRY STRUCTURES Third edition of Load Bearing Brickwork Design A. . . . . . . B. . . . . . C. Eng. and . . . . Department of Civil Engineering University of Edinburgh UK E FN SPON An Imprint of Chapman Hall London Weinheim New York Tokyo Melbourne Madras 2004 Taylor Francis Published by E FN Spon an imprint of Chapman Hall 2-6 Boundary ROw London SE1 8HN UK Chapman Hall 2-6 Boundary Row London SE1 8HN UK Chapman Hall GmbH Pappelallee 3 69469 Weinheim Germany Chapman Hall USA 115 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10003 USA Chapman Hall Japan ITP-Japan Kyowa Building 3F 2-2-1 Hirakawacho Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 102 Japan Chapman Hall Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne Victoria 3205 Australia Chapman Hall India 32 Second Main Road CIT East Madras 600 035 India This edition published in the Taylor Francis e-Library 2004. First edition 1997 1997 and First published as Load Bearing Brickwork Design First edition 1981. Second edition 1986 ISBN 0-203-36240-3 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-37498-3 Adobe eReader Format ISBN 0 419 21560 3 Print Edition Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study or criticism or review as permitted under the UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 this publication may not be reproduced stored or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing of the publishers or in the case of reprographic reproduction only in accordance with the terms of the licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK or in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the appropriate Reproduction Rights Organization outside the UK. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the terms stated here should be sent to the publishers at the London address printed on this page. The publisher makes no representation express or implied with regard