Material properties: effect on deflection, rotation and vibration - Part 1

This article examines the detailing that is particular to a concrete bridge. All details need to consider buildability, durability and maintainability, as well as safety and aesthetic issues.

Modern building services cost up to three times as much as the structural steelwork in a typical commercial building. Steel frame design needs to be considered in the context of the overall building cost, where early design decisions concerning structural layouts have a significant impact on the building services.

Despite a lack of experimental examples, Tianjian Ji considers this a useful reference book for researchers and those who fi nd the conventional viscous damping model insufficient in their practical design and analysis.