Acquire the ability to perform design tasks for building structures. Study advanced connections, complex structures, and system-level building design. Learn advanced techniques to evaluate structures ...

SINCE its original publication about five years ago, this work has proved itself a very valuable introduction to the basic conceptions and principles of structural theory as related to trusses, rigid ...

“Once you read this book, you’ll see the world through different eyes—the eyes of an engineer,” promises this in-depth introduction to structural engineering. Chapters each examine a construction ...

Constructed between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, Great Zimbabwe features massive stone enclosures built entirely without mortar. Granite blocks were carefully shaped and stacked to create ...

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