Ramsey Dabby, Ashwani Bedi. -- Honoken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

x, 262 p.; 29 cm.

ISBN 978-0-470-63376-2.

Incluye índice.

Contenido: Architects, engineers, and design -- Stability and strength -- Loads -- States of stress -- Forces, movement, levers, and moment -- Stability and equilibrium -- Working with forces -- Supports, reactions, and restraint of movement -- Load distribution -- Introduction to beams -- Framing systems and load tributary areas -- Shear and moment diagrams for beams -- Stress, strain, and properties of materials -- Introduction to columns -- Frames, rigidity, and lateral resistance systems -- Introduction to trusses -- Structural walls -- Soils and rock -- Foundations -- Summing up -- Appendix 1. Structural forms -- Appendix 2. Structural materials-steel -- Appendix 3. Structural materials-reinforced concrete -- Structural materials-wood -- Appendix 5. Properties of sections -- Appendix 6. Basic trigonometry.