g e n e r al bui l d i n g
Hazards and the Built Environment
Seeing and Touching Structural Concepts
Attaining Built-in Resilience
Tianjian Ji and Adrian Bell, both at University of Manchester, UK
Edited by Lee Bosher, Loughborough University, UK
Presenting seven guiding principles, drawn from a broad range of disciplines and approaches, this book tackles the difficult questions about what can be done to attain built-in resilience. With contributions from many renowned experts and upcoming researchers in the fields concerned, it comprehensively assesses the wide range of issues faced by practitioners.
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: The Need for Built-In Resilience 2. Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management 3. Construction in Developing Nations: Towards Increased Resilience to Disasters 4. More to Lose: The Case for Prevention, Loans for Strengthening, and One Day ‘Safe Housing’ Insurance – The Case of Central Vietnam 5. Structural Adaptation in India: Learning Lessons from Tradition 6. Developments in Seismic Design and Retrofit of Structures: Modern Technology Built on ‘Ancient Wisdom’ 7. Residential Properties in England and Wales: An Evaluation of Repair Strategies Towards Attaining Flood Resilience 8. Public Attitudes to ‘Community Based’ Small Scale Flood Risk Reduction Measures in England: A Case Study in the Lower Thames Catchment 9. Facing the Future by Designing in Resilience – An Architectural Perspective 10. Community-Based Construction for Disaster Risk Reduction 11. Informal Settlements and Natural Hazard Vulnerability in Rapid Growth Cities 12. The Worm in the Bud: Corruption, Construction and Catastrophe 13. Building Resilience by Focusing on Legal and Contractual Frameworks for Disaster Reconstruction 14. The Implications of the Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) 2004 for Engineers in the UK 15. Security Planning in the Resilient City: Stimulating Integrated Emergency Planning and Management 16. ‘Planning Ahead’: Adapting Settlements Before Disasters Strike 17. Afterword: Integrating Resilience into Construction Practice
The pioneering website www.structuralconcepts.org, by Tianjian Ji and Adrian Bell, goes back to basics and explains in detail the basic principles of structural concepts and how they relate to the real world.
Following on from and expanding upon the website, comes this book. Essential for the civil engineering student, it examines the concepts in closer detail with formulae and technical terminology, while remaining grounded in the website’s practical approach. With hundreds of photographs and diagrams, you are encouraged to visualize each concept in turn and to understand how it applies to everyday life. With its recipe format and straight-forward explanations, this will be your companion through your engineering degree and early years of practice. Selected Contents: Preface. Part 1: Statics 1. Equilibrium 2. Centre of Mass 3. Effect of Different Cross Sections 4. Bending 5. Shear and Torsion 6. Stress Distribution 7. Span and Deflection 8. Direct Force Paths 9. Smaller Internal Forces 10. Buckling 11. Prestress 12. Horizontal Movements of Frame Structures Induced by Vertical Loads Part 2: Dynamics 13. Energy Exchange 14. Pendulum 15. Free Vibration 16. Resonance 17. Damping in Structures 18. Vibration Reduction 19. Human Body Models in Structural Vibration 2008: 246 x 174: 288pp Hb: 978-0-415-39773-5: £80.00 • Pb: 978-0-415-39774-2: £31.99 eBook: 978-0-203-96079-0 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415397742
2008: 234 x 156: 400pp Hb: 978-0-415-42729-6: £95.00 • Pb: 978-0-415-42730-2: £41.99 eBook: 978-0-203-93872-0 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415427302
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