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ISBN
9781475702255
Subject Area
Architecture, Technology & Engineering
Publication Name
Introduction to Shell Structures : the Art and Science of Vaulting
Publisher
Springer
Item Length
10 in
Subject
Structural, General, Civil / General
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.4 in
Author
Michele Melaragno
Item Weight
29.6 Oz
Item Width
7 in
Number of Pages
Xiii, 428 Pages
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Publisher
Springer
ISBN-10
1475702256
ISBN-13
9781475702255
eBay Product ID (ePID)
164665654

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Number of Pages
Xiii, 428 Pages
Publication Name
Introduction to Shell Structures : the Art and Science of Vaulting
Language
English
Subject
Structural, General, Civil / General
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Author
Michele Melaragno
Subject Area
Architecture, Technology & Engineering
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
29.6 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in

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Number of Volumes
1 vol.
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Table Of Content
I Wood and Masonry Domes.- 1. Domes: Their Morphological Significance.- 2. Domes: From Ancient to Islamic.- 3. Domes from the Romanesque to the Present.- 4. Dome Technologies.- II Concrete Shells: Fundamentals and Case Studies.- 5. Thin Shells US.- 6. Selected Shapes of Shells.- 7. Significant Examples of Concrete Shells in the Twentieth Century.- 8. Construction Aspects of Shells.- 9. Computer Analysis of Shells and Domes.- III Practical Aids for the Preliminary Design of Thin Shells.- 10. Empirical Design of Masonry Vaulting.- 11. Spherical Shells.- 12. Barrel Shells.- 13. The Design of Hyperbolic Paraboloids.- IV Skeletal Steel Structures and Megadomes.- 14. Trussed Domes.- 15. Computer Analysis of Trussed Domes.- Epilogue.- Appendix A ACI Building Code Requirements for Thin Shells and Folded Plates.- Appendix B Excerpts from The Engineering Index Manual 1989.- Selected Bibliography.
Synopsis
The art of building dome shell structures has given to the baroque for its assumed pompo- been with us since ancient times. Current ex- sity in glorifying curves. In practical terms amples in the Astrodome, the Superdome, such an attitude in design is clearly mani- the Kingdome, and the Florida Suncoast fested in the present cityscapes that are to- Dome stand to remind us of the counterpoint tally free of arches, domes, shells, and any they play to the Pantheon, S. Sophia, S. other form that is not rectilinear. Is this what Maria del Fiore, and St. Peter. The latter we really want-plans and elevations with may be thought of by some as being ancient only straight lines, ninety-degree angles, or, history, but they are present in the twentieth in some daring cases, forty-five-degree century and hence are a part of our present angles? It does not seem so. and future. Why do scholars continue to Similarly, the curricula in both civil engi- study them? What can they teach us? A re- neering and architecture in structures seem vival of interest in curvilinear structures is to ignore intentionally arches and vaults, lim- under way, as the current examples just cited iting these subjects to graduate programs in thin-shell design as being a specialized eso- testify. At the beginning of this century, under teric subject., The art of building dome shell structures has given to the baroque for its assumed pompo­ been with us since ancient times. Current ex­ sity in glorifying curves. In practical terms amples in the Astrodome, the Superdome, such an attitude in design is clearly mani­ the Kingdome, and the Florida Suncoast fested in the present cityscapes that are to­ Dome stand to remind us of the counterpoint tally free of arches, domes, shells, and any they play to the Pantheon, S. Sophia, S. other form that is not rectilinear. Is this what Maria del Fiore, and St. Peter. The latter we really want-plans and elevations with may be thought of by some as being ancient only straight lines, ninety-degree angles, or, history, but they are present in the twentieth in some daring cases, forty-five-degree century and hence are a part of our present angles? It does not seem so. and future. Why do scholars continue to Similarly, the curricula in both civil engi­ study them? What can they teach us? A re­ neering and architecture in structures seem vival of interest in curvilinear structures is to ignore intentionally arches and vaults, lim­ under way, as the current examples just cited iting these subjects to graduate programs in thin-shell design as being a specialized eso­ testify. At the beginning of this century, under teric subject.
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TA1-2040

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