Analysis, Design and Construction of Braced Barrel Vaults by Z.S. Makowski

Analysis, Design and Construction of Braced Barrel Vaults by Z.S. Makowski??By: Z.S. Makowski Publisher: routledge Print ISBN: 9780853343776, 0853343772 other ISBN: 9780203975947, 9781466576421, 1466576421 Edition: 1stThe industrial and technological developments which have taken place during the lastthree decades have had a far-reaching effect upon contemporary architecture and modernengineering. New building techniques, new constructional materials and new structuralforms have been introduced all over the world.The architectural search for new structural forms has resulted in the widespread use ofthree-dimensional structures. The evolution of effective computer techniques of analysisis undoubtedly one of the reasons for the truly phenomenal acceptance of spacestructures.Their popularity is growing steadily. The designers realise that with the demand forlarge unobstructed areas, long-span grids, braced barrel vaults and domes, andtriangulated hyperbolic paraboloids frequently provide the right answer for an economicsolution. During recent years, architects have re-discovered the advantages of barrelvaults as viable and often highly suitable forms for covering not only low-cost industrialbuildings, warehouses, large-span hangars, indoor sports stadia and gymnasia, but alsolarge cultural and leisure centres.