Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Methods & Materials

Beginning with an overview of the material types and potential health hazards presented by building materials, the book goes on to consider key plastic materials. Materials responsible for formaldehyde and volatile organic compound...

Timber Design covers timber fundamentals for students and professional architects and engineers, such as tension elements, flexural elements, shear and torsion, compression elements, connections, and lateral design. As part of the Architect's Guidebooks to Structures series, it provides a comprehensive overview using both imperial and metric units of measurement. Timber Design begins with an intriguing case study and uses a range of examples and visual aids, including more than 200 figures, to illustrate key concepts. As a compact summary of fundamental ideas, it...

Fussboden prasentiert in kompakter Form einen Uberblick uber die gangigen Fussbodenkonstruktionen und Bodenbelage fur den Hoch- und Industriebau. Die Autoren erlautern deren konstruktiven Eigenschaften; sie legen besonderes Augenmerk auf Materialwahl, Gestaltung und Verarbeitung und stellen den Bezug zu den geltenden Regelwerken und Normen im deutschsprachigen Raum her. Viele Beispiele aus der Praxis machen den Band zu einem wertvollen Handbuch.

Plywood is an astonishingly versatile material, made by gluing together layers of cross-grained veneers, creating a pliable board that can be stronger than solid wood. Stylish and practical, plywood offers huge possibilities for experimental design, and it has been used to make a wide range of products, from airplanes, boats, and automobiles to architecture and furniture. This book traces the history of plywood from its use in eighteenth-century furniture, through its emergence as an industrial product in the nineteenth century, to a material celebrated by twentieth-century modernists such...

Stability and Vibrations of Thin-Walled Composite Structures presents engineering and academic knowledge on the stability (buckling and post buckling) and vibrations of thin walled composite structures like columns, plates, and stringer stiffened plates and shells, which form the basic structures of the aeronautical and space sectors.

Currently, this knowledge is dispersed in several books and manuscripts, covering all aspects of composite materials. The book enables both engineers and academics to locate valuable, up-to-date knowledge on buckling and vibrations, be it...

This book presents a whole set of new results which have been published by the authors over the last 30 years in the field of continuum solid mechanics applied to the analysis and design of reinforced civil engineering structures.

The focus is on the development and application of up-scaling/homogenization methods in the design of such composite structures, with a special emphasis on the plastic behavior and ultimate strength of materials.

The specificity of the book is highlighted by at least two completely innovative concepts which lie at the very heart of the book's...

2016 New editorship

Elisabeth Blum, Jesko Fezer, Gunther Fischer, Angelika Schnell

Not unjustly referred to as legendary, this series of books on the history and theory of architecture and urban development was founded in 1963 by Ulrich Conrads, who was joined by Peter Neitzke as a co-editor of the series in the early 1980s. Now numbering over 150 titles, it is the most comprehensive German-language book series covering these fields. Following the deaths of the two longtime editors Ulrich Conrads (2013) and Peter Neitzke (2015), a...

Holz wird meist als "traditioneller" Werkstoff wahrgenommen. Seine Materialeigenschaften ermoglichen langst jedoch die Gestaltung von Freiformen und hochkomplexen Strukturen.

Das ursprunglich von Julius Natterer gegrundete Holzlabor der ETH Lausanne erprobt heute unter der Leitung von Professor Wienand mit digitalen Berechnungs- und computergestutzten Bearbeitungsmethoden die Herstellung von Origami-Strukturen, Rippenschalen, Gewebestrukturen und gekrummten Paneelen.
Diese Forschungsergebnisse werden in Prototypen erprobt, die so die Anwendungsmoglichkeiten fur gromastabliche...