ebooks Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings: Restoration; Preservation; and Adaptive Reuse Applications for Architects and Engineers by J. Stanley Rabun in Arts-Photography

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Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings offers the most complete; detailed; and authentic data available on the materials; calculation methods; and design techniques used by architects and engineers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It provides todays building professionals with information needed to analyze; modify; and certify historic buildings for modern use. Among the many important features of this book not available in any other single volume are: * More than 350 line drawings and diagrams taken directly from original sources such as the Carnegie Steele Companys Pocket Companion (1893) and Frank Kidders The Architects and Builders Pocketbook (1902) * Hard-to-find data on period structural components; such as cast-iron columns and beams; wrought-iron columns and beams; and fireproof terra cotta floor arches * Methods for determining what kind of loads structural components were originally designed to bear and methods to determine if they are still capable of performing as intended * Extensive coverage of historical foundation systems and empirical design methods for load-bearing masonry buildings For any building professional involved in the rapidly growing field of restoring; preserving; and adapting historic buildings; Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings is an invaluable structural handbook.