Umfang:
1 online resource (505 pages)
Ausgabe:
4th ed.
ISBN:
9783035607710
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Introduction to fourth edition -- Structure and envelope -- Parametric design -- 1. MATERIALS -- 1. Steel -- Production -- Performance -- Applications -- 2. Aluminium -- Production -- Performance -- Applications -- 3. Copper, zinc and lead -- Production -- Performance -- Applications -- 4. Stone -- Production -- Performance -- Applications -- 5. Glass -- Production -- Performance -- 6. Concrete -- Production -- Performance -- Applications -- 7. Fibre reinforced concrete -- Production -- Performance -- Applications -- 8. Ceramics -- Production -- Performance -- Applications -- 9. Timber -- Production -- Performance -- Applications -- 10. Polymers -- Production -- Performance -- 11. Material testing -- Testing of building materials -- 2. WALLS -- Trends in facade design -- Generic wall types -- Metal -- 1. Sheet metal -- 2. Profiled cladding -- 3. Composite panels -- 4. Rainscreens -- 5. Mesh screens -- 6. Louvre screens -- Glass systems -- 1. Stick systems -- 2. Unitised glazing -- 3. Clamped glazing -- 4. Bolt fixed glazing -- 5. Glass blocks and channels -- 6. Steel windows -- 7. Aluminium windows -- 8. Timber windows -- 1. Cast in-situ -- 2. Storey height panels -- 3. Small precast panels -- Masonry -- 1. Loadbearing walls -- 2. Cavity walls Brick -- Stone and block -- 3. Cladding -- 4. Rainscreens -- Fibre reinforced polymers -- 1. FRP cladding -- 2. FRP rainscreens -- Timber -- 1. Timber frame -- 2. Cladding panels -- 3. ROOFS -- Trends in roof design -- Metal roofs -- 1. Metal standing seam -- 2. Profiled metal sheet -- 3. Composite panels -- 4. Rainscreens -- 5. Metal louvres -- Glass roofs -- 1. Greenhouse glazing and capped systems -- 2. Silicone-sealed glazing and rooflights -- 3. Bolt fixed glazing -- 4. Bonded glass rooflights -- Concrete roofs -- 1. Concealed membrane -- 2. Exposed membrane
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3. Planted roof -- Timber roofs -- 1. Flat roof: mastic asphalt coverings -- 2. Flat roof: bitumen-based sheet -- 3. Pitched roof: tiles -- Fibre reinforced polymer roofs -- 1. FRP rooflights -- 2. FRP panels and shells -- Fabric systems -- 1. ETFE cushions -- 2. Single membrane: cone-shaped roof -- 3. Single membrane: barrel-shaped roof -- 4. STRUCTURE -- Material systems for structures -- Elements of structures -- Braced frames -- 1. Reinforced concrete -- 2. Steel -- 3. Timber -- Portal frames -- Loadbearing boxes -- 1. Reinforced concrete -- 2. Brick -- 3. Glass -- Trusses -- Arches and shells -- Space grids -- Floor structures -- 1. Cast in-situ / cast-in-place concrete -- 2. Precast concrete -- 3. Steel and steel mesh -- 4. Timber -- 5. Glass -- Stairs -- 1. Concrete -- 2. Steel -- 3. Timber -- 4. Glass -- 5. ENVIRONMENT -- Environmental studies for envelopes -- Analysis for design -- 1. Solar radiation -- 2. Daylight -- 3. Thermal performance -- 4. Wind -- 5. Solar shading -- 6. Double skin facades -- 7. Natural ventilation -- 8. Thermal mass -- Low energy material systems -- 1. Embodied energy -- 2. Green walls -- Active design -- 1. Liquid based heating/cooling systems -- 2. Mechanical heating/cooling systems -- 3. Electrical lighting -- 4. Raised floors -- 5. Internal ceilings -- Support services -- 1. Sanitation and drainage -- 1. Maintenance and cleaning -- 2. Lifts -- Performance testing of facade material systems -- Performance testing of roof material systems -- 6. APPLICATIONS -- 1. Working with industry -- 2. Triangular panels for twisted facades -- 3. Twisted panels with flat glass for curved facades -- 4. Solar shading louvres -- 5. Double-skin facades -- 6. Precast concrete panels for facades of complex geometry -- 7. Exoskeleton facades of complex geometry -- 8. Diagrid structures
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9. Hybrid systems forming facades of complex geometry -- 10. Opaque cladding interface with full-height glazing -- 11. Complex curved glazed roofs -- 12. Large-scale glazed facades -- 13. Panelisation of complex building surface geometry -- 14. Opaque rainscreen cladding -- 15. Full-height glazing with GRP-clad structural frame -- 16. GRC cladding interfaces -- 17. Full-height entrance glazing -- 18. GRP louvres on stick glazing system -- 19. GRC cladding -- 20. Windows in GRC cladding -- 21. Windows and unitised glazing with GRC cladding -- 22. Unitised glazing with GRC cladding -- 23. Complex glazed roofs with supporting steel structure -- 24. Glazed roofs with complex geometry -- 25. Louvres and stick glazing -- REFERENCES -- Glossary of terms -- Authorship -- Photo credits -- Index
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Print version Watts, Andrew Modern Construction Handbook Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,c2016 ISBN 9783035609592
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Englisch
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