The Masonry Construction Manual examines the wide range of possibilities stone and brickwork offer in building. It documents in great detail the technical principles and methods of building with these materials, examines their properties, the sizes and forms of bricks and stones, the bonds, and the behaviour of stone and brickwork under stress. In addition, full information is provided on the requirements with respect to heat, damp, sound-proofing and fire protection, and the most recent standards and norms are listed. Finally, a large number of built examples are presented, complete with plans and details, all of which illustrate the many applications of stone and brickwork in contemporary construction. All plans have been drawn at equal scale especially for this book to ensure best legibility and easy comparison. The construction manuals from Edition Detail have set new standards in the field of specialist literature, becoming an indispensable part of any architect's library.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German
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Best quality but refers to European building codes,
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There's nothing else quite like these construction manuals: highly technical information aimed at architects and engineers, presented very stylishly. Because this one concerns masonry, the most general purpose of building materials, it seems to cover all aspects of building science--energy efficiency, moisture and sound control, fire safety (very briefly) etc. It also gives basic overall structural engineering guidelines, e.g. allowable dimensions for unsupported walls, and more, for the reader who is already conversant with stresses, shear forces, and so on, and who is interested in reading several pages on, say, how to interpret cracks in walls. Apart from the historical overview which begins it, it is essentially a summary and explanation of the German building codes, and supplies voluminous data from them in the form of tables and graphs. And, of course, it ends with the detailed examples, with meticulous drawings, for which the publisher is famous.
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We rarely see the simplicity of building - the layering and jointing - at work on modern construction sites. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lightweight concrete units, slag aggregate units, building science properties, air space thermal insulation, airborne sound insulation index, perforations perpendicular, autoclaved aerated concrete units, dry gross density, containing mineral binders, sheet metal capping, plastering mixes, thermal insulation composite systems, condensing period, raking stretcher bond, water vapour diffusion resistance, balcony floor slab, flanking components, lightweight clay bricks, mortar sledge, shallow lintels, plastering systems, building materials classes, roller blind box, total energy transmittance, calcium silicate units Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Energy-savings Act, Rolf Ramcke, Openings Window, Ernst Gisel, Fritz Hbger, Gross Thermal, Ishtar Gate, National Application Document, Palazzo Pitti, Berlin Assistants, Hans Heinrich, Hans Poelzig, Hanseatic Gothic, Heinz Bienefeld, Hirschberg Palace, Library of the Technological Institute, River Leine, Single-leaf Clay, Through-bonding Obtuse New!
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- Crystal Palace (Architecture in Detail) by Joseph Paxton on page 15
- An Outline of European Architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner in Back Matter
- The Innocents Abroad (Dover Value Editions) by Mark Twain on page 15
- The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design (World of Art) by Nikolaus Pevsner in Back Matter
- Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures by Andrea Deplazes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Design-Tech: Building Science for Architects by Jason Alread on page 164, and Back Matter
- Massivbau in ganzer Breite: Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Konrad Zilch (German Edition) by Förderverein Massivbau der TU München e.V. on page 6, and page 5
- Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures by Andrea Deplazes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- In Detail: Building Simply by Christian Schittich in Back Matter
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