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UNINA9910809983303321 |
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Smith Paul <1966 October 17-> |
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Structural design of buildings / / Paul Smith |
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West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2016 |
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1-118-83939-0 |
1-118-83938-2 |
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1 online resource (481 p.) |
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Structural design |
Building - Details |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Title Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Introduction; Health and Safety; Building Regulations, Listed Buildings and Planning Consent; Chapter 1: The History of Buildings; The development of building knowledge; Styles of architecture and building construction; Chapter 2: Loadings and Aspects of Structural Theory Relating to Buildings; Weight and mass; Permanent actions or dead loads; Variable actions or imposed loads; Wind load; Accidental actions; Seismic action; BS EN 1991: Actions on structures EC1; Combinations of load and factors of safety; Stress; Strain |
Young's modulus or modulus of elasticityPlastic deformation; Buckling; Local buckling; Second moment of area; Centre of gravity; Lateral torsional buckling; Neutral axis; Bending force; Shear force and bending moment; Deflection; Static equilibrium; Internal forces; Derivation of shear force; Derivation of bending moment; Derivation of deflection; Basic theory of bending; Moment of resistance; Combined bending and direct stress; External and internal statically determinate structures; Connections and restraints; Stiffness; Buildings and load paths; Chapter 3: The Construction of Buildings |
Breathable and non-breathable constructionTimber frame; Stone; Modern timber frame construction; Solid brick construction; Cavity construction; Steel construction; Commercial steel portal frames; |
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Precast concrete construction; Chapter 4: Steel; Steel properties; Lateral torsional buckling; The effect of end restraints on a beam; Bending failure; Local buckling; Shear failure; Web bearing and buckling; Deflection; Fire and corrosion; Chapter 5: Concrete; The history of cement and concrete; Cement; Water and workability - now known as consistence; Failure of concrete; Strength of concrete |
Concrete mix designsCreep; Environment; Air-entrained concrete; Accelerators and retarders; Plasticizers; Fly ash, silica flume and ground granulated blast furnace slag; Anti-corrosion; Chapter 6: Timber; Grading of timber; Moisture; Air-dried timber; Kiln-dried timber; Dimensions of timber; Shear; Bending; Deflection; Chapter 7: Foundations; Purpose of foundations; The history of foundations; Building Regulation requirements; Stepped foundation; Types of foundation; Piles; Bearing pressure; Bearing capacity; Eccentric loading on foundations; Climatic and moisture changes |
Physical damage by treesUnderpinning; Chapter 8: Walls; The strength of walls; Masonry unit; Frost resistance and soluble salts; Concrete blocks; Mortar; Lime putty (non-hydraulic lime); Hydraulic lime; Important rules in the use of lime mortars; Cement; Characteristic strength of masonry; Slenderness ratio; Flexural stiffness and the second moment of area; Euler load; Leaning walls and stability; Movement joints; Changes due to temperature changes; Changes due to moisture changes; Traditional design of walls; Middle-third rule; Timber frame walls and raking; Chapter 9: Floors |
The history of floors |
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UNINA9910298329803321 |
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Fletcher Amy Lynn |
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Mendel's Ark : Biotechnology and the Future of Extinction / / by Amy Lynn Fletcher |
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Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
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[1st ed. 2014.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (104 p.) |
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344.046 |
36370561 |
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Biodiversity |
Social sciences |
Environmental law |
Environmental policy |
Nature conservation |
Wildlife |
Fishes |
Nature |
Ecology |
Social Sciences, general |
Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice |
Nature Conservation |
Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management |
Popular Science in Nature and Environment |
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""Contents""; ""Chapter 1 The Future of Extinction""; ""1.1 Goodbye to the Baiji""; ""1.2 Hello to the Anthropocene""; ""1.3 Wicked Problems and Socio-Technical Imaginaries""; ""1.4 Telling Stories about Extinction""; ""1.5 Taking Control of Nature's Realm""; ""1.6 The Once and Future Baiji""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2 A Political History of |
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Extinction""; ""2.1 From Eden to Extinction� and Back Again?""; ""2.2 Fossils and Frontiers: Debating Extinction During the Enlightenment""; ""2.3 The Politics of Extinction in the Progressive Era"" |
""2.4 Spaceship Earth: Twentieth Century Environmentalism""""2.5 Climate, Catastrophe and Conservation Biology""; ""2.6 Everything Old is New Again: Biotechnology and De-Extinction""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3 Bio-Inventories: The Digitization of Nature""; ""3.1 They Had to Count Them All: Bioinformatics and DNA Barcoding""; ""3.2 Cracking the Code of Life: Bioinformatics in the Twentieth Century""; ""3.3 The Encyclopedia of Life""; ""3.4 A Barcode for Every Species""; ""3.4.1 Transforming Ecology: From Species to Genes""; ""3.4.2 The Taxonomic Impediment""; ""3.5 Digital Natures"" |
""References""""Chapter 4 Bio-Interventions: Cloning Endangered Species as Wildlife Conservation""; ""4.1 Is Nature Over?""; ""4.2 The Molecular Frontier: Biotechnology and Life as Code""; ""4.3 From Wistar Rats to Oncomice: Engineering Animals""; ""4.4 Dolly and Polly: Animal Cloning Hits the Big Time""; ""4.5 Noah's Ark: Cloning on the Edge of Extinction""; ""4.6 Preservation in a Petri Dish""; ""References""; ""Chapter 5 Bio-Identities: Cloning the Recently Extinct""; ""5.1 Liminal Lives: The Biopolitics of De-extinction""; ""5.2 The Past Comes Alive: Ancient DNA as Time Travel"" |
""5.2.1 No Longer Dead as a Dodo""""5.2.2 Everything Old is New Again""; ""5.3 Tasmanian Tiger Tales""; ""5.3.1 You don't know what you got until you lose it""; ""5.3.1.1 The Thylacine as Environmental Icon""; ""5.4 Spectacular Science""; ""5.5 Pickled Pups and Promises""; ""5.6 Reviving and Restoring""; ""5.7 See It Now, While It's Still Extinct""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6 Bio-Imaginaries: Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth""; ""6.1 Entering the Hall of Extinct Monsters""; ""6.2 How to Resurrect a Woolly Mammoth""; ""6.2.1 Raising the Mammoth""; ""6.2.2 Pleistocene Dreams"" |
""6.3 Engineering Life: Synthetic Biology""""6.4 In Search of Lost Worlds""; ""References"" |
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Does extinction have to be forever? As the global extinction crisis accelerates, conservationists and policy-makers increasingly use advanced biotechnologies such as reproductive cloning, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and bioinformatics in the urgent effort to save species. Mendel's Ark considers the ethical, cultural and social implications of using these tools for wildlife conservation. Drawing upon sources ranging from science to science fiction, it focuses on the stories we tell about extinction and the meanings we ascribe to nature and technology. The use of biotechnology in conservation is redrawing the boundaries between animals and machines, nature and artifacts, and life and death. The new rhetoric and practice of de-extinction will thus have significant repercussions for wilderness and for society. The degree to which we engage collectively with both the prosaic and the fantastic aspects of biotechnological conservation will shape the boundaries and ethics of our desire to restore lost worlds. |
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