Concrete Structure Design Taboos and Examples

Author: Li Guosheng
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book addresses some issues in the design of reinforced concrete structures using the "taboo" hint method, warning readers about what not to do and how to do it correctly. The book consists of 15 chapters: Important Concepts in Structural Design, Loads and Earthquake Actions, Basic Regulations for Structural Design, Foundations and Substructures, Floor (Story) Structures, Frame Structures, Shear Wall Structures, Frame-Shear Wall Structures, Plate-Column-Shear Wall Structures, Shear Wall Structures with Large Openings at the Base, Tube Structures, Multi-Tower Structures, Linked Structures, Irregular Structures, Hybrid Structures, Other Topics, and Case Studies. The book also includes numerous practical charts and tables. It is suitable for civil engineering and structural design professionals, construction drawing review personnel, supervisors, construction workers, researchers, and students and faculty of civil engineering programs in universities and colleges.