Tall buildings : the proceedings of a symposium on tall buildings with particular reference to shear wall structures, held in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southampton, April 1966 / / editors, A. Coull, B. Stafford Smith

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822991003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York : , : Symposium Publications Division, Pergamon Press, , 1967
• ISBN: 1-4831-8096-4
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (638 pages)
• Disciplina: 721
• Soggetti: Tall buildings; Structural analysis (Engineering); Walls; Shear walls
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Sponsored by the University of Southampton and the Civil Engineering Research Association.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Tall Buildings; Copyright Page; FOREWORD; Table of Contents; PREFACE; LIST OF PARTICIPANTS; SECTION 1: WIND LOADING; CHAPTER 1. THE TREATMENT OF WIND LOADING ON TALL BUILDINGS; INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE; OBSERVATIONS OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF TALL BUILDINGS IN THE WIND; THE RELATIONSHIP OF METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS TO WIND LOADING; DYNAMIC ACTION OF THE WIND; DESIGN CRITERIA AGAINST WIND; APPROACHES TO DESIGN AGAINST WIND; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; SECTION 2: DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; CHAPTER 2. PLANNING CONCEPTS USING SHEAR WALLS; SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; DEFINITION; PLANNING; PLAN FORMS USING SHEAR WALLS CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; CHAPTER 3. SHEAR WALL STRUCTURES-DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS; SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; ANALYSIS OF SHEAR WALLS; WIND AND VIBRATION EFFECTS; DEFLECTION; METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION; PRECAST CONSTRUCTION; FOUNDATIONS; MODEL ANALYSIS; SECONDARY STRESSES; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; CHAPTER 4. THE USE OF SHEAR WALLS IN HIGH BUILDINGS; ; SUMMARY; SHEAR WALLS IN HIGH BUILDINGS; CHAPTER 5. SHEAR WALL CONSTRUCTION IN SYSTEM BUILDING; SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; DEVELOPMENT; CURRENT PRACTICE; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS; HIGH MAISONETTE BLOCKSWALL PANEL REINFORCEMENT; CONCLUSION; DISCUSSION; CHAPTER 6. DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; SECTION 3: RESEARCH; (a) THE PRESENT STATE OF RESEARCH; CHAPTER 7. ANALYSIS OF SHEAR WALL STRUCTURES (A Review of Previous Research); INTRODUCTION; 1. SHEAR WALL STRUCTURES; 2. SHEAR WALLS COMBINED WITH FRAMES; 3. INFILLED FRAMES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; SUPPLEMENT; (b) COUPLED SHEAR WALLS; CHAPTER 8. THE INTERACTION OF SHEAR WALLS CONNECTED SOLELY THROUGH SLABS; SUMMARY; INTRODUCTION; PART 1 : MODEL STUDIES; PART 2 SIMPLIFIED THEORY; APPENDIX 1. DERIVATION OF THE FORMULAS FOR MAXIMUM LAMINAE SHEAR AND ITS LOCATION APPENDIX 2. SAMPLE CALCULATION USING SIMPLIFIED THEORY; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; CHAPTER 9. MULTISTOREY PIERCED SHEAR WALLS OF VARIABLE CROSS-SECTION; SUMMARY; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. DETERMINATION OF STRESSES IN EACH SEPARATE WALL UNIT; 3. NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; 4. CRITICAL REMARKS AND CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; NOTATION; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; CHAPTER 10. THE ANALYSIS OF INTERCONNECTED SHEAR WALLS BY ANALOGUE COMPUTATION; INTRODUCTION; DERIVATION OF EQUATIONS; ANALOGUE COMPUTATION; EXAMPLES; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT NOTATION; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; CHAPTER 11. LATERAL STIFFNESS OF SHEAR WALLS WITH OPENINGS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. DISCUSSION OF THE VARIABLES INVOLVED; 3 . METHODS OF ANALYSIS; 4. COMPARISON OF METHODS; 5. COMMENTS ON FACTORS AFFECTING STIFFNESS; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; APPENDIX 1. BEAM STIFFNESS MATRIX FOR WIDE COLUMN FRAME; REFERENCES; DISCUSSION; CHAPTER 12. THE EFFECT OF LOCAL WALL DEFORMATIONS ON THE ELASTIC INTERACTION OF CROSS WALLS COUPLED BY BEAMS; SUMMARY; 1. THE PROBLEM; 2. A SIMPLIFYING THEORY; 3. DEFLECTIONS OF BEAMS CANTILEVERING FROM ELASTIC WALLS; 4. THE ""EQUIVALENT LENGTH"" METHOD
• Sommario/riassunto: Tall Buildings