Basic Structures For Engineers And Architects

by Philip Garrison

This book provides students of civil engineering and architecture with a grounding in the fundamentals of structures, and a 'feel' for the way buildings behave structurally. The book aims to explain structural concepts clearly, using analogies and examples to illustrate the points, and it expresses mathematical aspects of the subject in a straightforward way.

Fully worked solutions to examples available online for readers. Please see www.blackwellpublishing.com/garrison/

Genres: Architecture

294 pages, Paperback

First published May 25, 2005

Reviews

[فيروز · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Jayson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good supplement for a structures course. It contains good descriptions on some basic properties of materials and the nature of loads and stresses. It has a moderate amount of computation and some tutorial exercises with solutions that can be found on the link provided by the publisher.

I enjoyed reading it. In fact, I treated it as a nonfiction read - it is, obviously - but it felt more like a casual read with a little bit of computation in it rather than a tedious work that you feel when you read a textbook.

I did, however, notice some errors in the computational parts but if you have had units in structural mechanics then you will not be bothered that much. You will easily see the errors and think that they are only typographical. Some are major errors, though, like in the case of a wrong dimension input.

Anyway, the purpose of the book is to get a grasp of the structural properties of materials and the way a structure works in real case scenarios. I think the book does a great job about it!

[Syeda Hina Zeynep · Rating 5 out of 5]

Being a Civil Engineer I would recommend this book to the students who are weak in structural track. For me I started understanding structure in the beginning of my Fourth year (which is quite late I know ). With the help of this book I started working on my concepts and still looking forward to go through it when it will be needed.