Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is a handbook about the basic structure of things. Design students should be able to develop an understanding of essential structural principles and behaviour by the illustrative and largely non-mathematical approach. By means of sketches, Tony Hunt conveys in a clear way structures occurring in such diverse objects as a bridge, a box for packaging, furniture and buildings. This book covers all the common structural elements singly and in composite form.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction
• Structure
• Loads on structure
• Equilibrium
• Structural elements
• Structural types
• Structural materials
• Appendix I Bending and deflexion formulae for beams
• Appendix II Reading list and references