Wind, Snow and Temperature Effects on Structures Based on Probability [antikvár]

FOREWORDThe book has been developed primarily from the Románián edition, entitled "Wind., Snowand Temperature Loads on Structures" (1972). In its present form, it has been revised and enlarged to include the major contributions recorded in the field in the last three years.In 1973, the authors published a book on "Safety of Structures", which had grown from lectures for a postgraduate course that we taught at the Institute of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, since 1971. This work has been the basis of the revised chapters on the theory and practical application to design of advanced structural concepts based on probability.In its present form, about 80% of the book has been completely rewritten; thus the book has become a new work.The purpose of the text is to give a thorough understanding of the probabilistic design for wind, snow and temperature effects on buildings and structures. Although the probabilistic modelling of structural safety is not sufficiently developed yet to make possible a uniform probabilistic approach to structural design as a whole, future years will probably bring the implementation of the more advanced probability-based generations of codes in structural design.Ali through the book, the building code requirements have constantly been compared to each other, which revealed significant differences between the practices adopted by various countries. They are largely due to incomplete engineering knowledge of physical phenomena and their laws. Further research still seems > necessary in order to improve the understanding of load producing phenomena and structural safety.The book has had the chance to be written at a time when the field it deals with is undergoing great progress. The contributions made in this respect by the works of the following professors of structural engineering: Jack R. Benjámin (Stanford University), J. Ferry Borges and Mario Castanheta (Laboratório Nációnál de Engenharia Civil, Lisbon), C. Aliin Cornell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Alan G. Davenport (University of Western Ontario), Emilio Rosenblueth (Universidad Nációnál Autónoma de México) and Christopher Scruton (National Physical Laboratory, Teddington), have constantly served as reference and guidance.