Introduction
Designing structures for building involves the consideration of a wide range of factors. Building structural designers must not only understand structural behavior and how to provide for it adequately, but must also be knowledge able about building construction materials and processes, building codes and standards, and the economics of building. In addition, because the structure is merely a subsystem in the whole building .Structures should not only be logical in their own right, but should also relate well to the functional purposes of the building and to the other subsystems for power, lighting, plumbing, heating, and so on.
Formal education in structural design is usually focused heavily on learning the procedures for structural analysis and the techniques and problems of designing individual structural elements and systems in various materials. The whole problems of designing a structure for a building is not well documented, and learning it usually takes place primarily on the job in professional offices. Although this means of learning is valuable in some ways, it does not provide a good general understanding because it is usually limited to the highly specific situations of each design problem.
The procedure used in examples is to first present a general building design as a given condition, which is followed by the illustration of the selection and design of the various typical elements of the structural system. The buildings shown are not particularly intended as examples of good architectural design but merely as illustrations of common structural design situation.
Although most of the calculations shown are in reasonably complete form, it is assumed that the reader has previously mastered the fundamentals of analysis and design of simple structures. The word `` simplified`` implies some limit to the complexity of the work, and the general image for this limit is the level of complexity dealt .
Designing structures for building involves the consideration of a wide range of factors. Building structural designers must not only understand structural behavior and how to provide for it adequately, but must also be knowledge able about building construction materials and processes, building codes and standards, and the economics of building. In addition, because the structure is merely a subsystem in the whole building .Structures should not only be logical in their own right, but should also relate well to the functional purposes of the building and to the other subsystems for power, lighting, plumbing, heating, and so on.
Formal education in structural design is usually focused heavily on learning the procedures for structural analysis and the techniques and problems of designing individual structural elements and systems in various materials. The whole problems of designing a structure for a building is not well documented, and learning it usually takes place primarily on the job in professional offices. Although this means of learning is valuable in some ways, it does not provide a good general understanding because it is usually limited to the highly specific situations of each design problem.
The procedure used in examples is to first present a general building design as a given condition, which is followed by the illustration of the selection and design of the various typical elements of the structural system. The buildings shown are not particularly intended as examples of good architectural design but merely as illustrations of common structural design situation.
Although most of the calculations shown are in reasonably complete form, it is assumed that the reader has previously mastered the fundamentals of analysis and design of simple structures. The word `` simplified`` implies some limit to the complexity of the work, and the general image for this limit is the level of complexity dealt .
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