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Foreword Preface Acknowledgements About the Editors About the Contributors Introduction
Chapter 1. Structural design of reinforced concrete elements to EC2; Owen Brooker and Ashraf Ashour
1.1 Introduction
1.2 System selection
1.3 Preliminary sizing 1
.4 Stability
1.5 Detailed design
1.6 Conclusions
Chapter 2. Steelwork; John Rushton
2.1 Introduction
2.2 What is a successful steel design?
2.3 Design responsibility
2.4 Design/Analysis/Detail design-a virtuous circle
2.5 Preliminary structural steelwork arrangements
2.6 Challenges and opportunities
2.7 Reconstruction of a 1920s steel framed office building
2.8 Conclusion
Chapter 3. Timber and wood-based products; Bernardino D'Amico
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Timber for structural use
3.3 Solid timber and engineered wood products
3.4 Mechanical properties of timber and engineered wood products
3.5 Design rules for ultimate limit states
3.6 Design rules for serviceability limit states
3.7 Connections
3.8 Glued composite sections
3.9 Conclusions
Chapter 4. Masonry; Andrew Rolf
4.1 Introduction
4.2 System Selection
4.3 Preliminary Sizing
4.4 Final Design
4.5 Design Examples
4.6 Other Aspects of Final Design
Chapter 5. Aluminium in Civil Engineering structures; Federico Massimo Mazzolani
5.1 Birth of Aluminium
5.2 The first applications
5.3 Why Aluminium in Structural Engineering
5.4. Aluminium alloys for structural use
5.5. The development of Eurocode
5.6. Some relevant features of Eurocode 9
5.7. Real examples of Aluminium Structures
Chapter 6. Glass in Façades and Other Applications; Mauro Overend
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Manufacture and Mechanical Properties
6.3 Use of glass in buildings
6.4. Engineering design of glass
6.5 Use of glass in buildings;
6.6 Engineering design of glass
6.7 Designing environmentally sustainable glass.
Chapter 7. Retrofitting, materials for the thermal upgrade of existing building and life cycle impacts; Chiara Piccardo
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Energy efficiency standards
7.3 Measures for energy-efficient renovations
7.4 Materials for energy-efficient renovations
7.5 Life cycle of energy-efficient renovations
7.6. Energy and carbon implications of renovations