1st Edition
Geometry of Construction: For Builders, Architects, Engineers
240 Pages
by
Routledge
Geometry of Construction has long been acknowledged as the most concise and instructive guide to the technical geometry of the construction industry, and a vital resource for students in architecture, carpentry, stonemasonry and engineering. Beginning with the very basics of technical drawing, it provides a series of increasingly complex exercises to clearly explain all that the reader... Read more
Contents: Lettering for Working Drawings; Some Definitions; Bisectors and Perpendiculars; Angles by Bisection; Angles and Triangles; Construction of Triangles; Scale of Chords; Quadrilaterals and Parallel Lines; Construction of Quadrilaterals; Regular Polygons and their Construction; The Circle; The Construction of Scales; Enlargement by Squares; Orthographic Projection; Arrangement of Projections; Isometric Projection; Oblique Projection; Axonometric Projection; The Projections of a Circle; Orthographic Projection: an Example; Isometric Projection: an Example; Axonometric Projection: an Example; Oblique Projection: an Example; The Circle in Mouldings; Arch Curves; Mouldings; Tangents to Circles; Construction; Circles in Contact; Tangents to Circles: External and Internal; Inscribed Circles; Foiled Figures; Continuous Curves; Loci: Locus of Centres; Fret Patterns; Patterns Based on Squares; Patterns Based on Circles; Patterns in Circles; The Ellipse as a Plane Figure; The Parabola and Hyperbola; Conic Sections in Mouldings; Approximations to Ellipse; Areas; Calculation of Areas; Calculations of Volumes; Similitude; Entasis of Column; Spiral Curves; Ionic Volute; Geometrical Solids; Projections of Solids: Cube: Triangular Prism: Hexagonal Prism: Cylinder: Square Pyramid: Triangular Pyramid: Hexagonal Pyramid: Cone : Auxiliary Projection; Sections of Solids; The Ellipse as a Conic Section; Projection of Points; Projection of Lines; Projection of Planes; The Lengths of Lines; The Oblique Plane; Roof Surfaces; The Parabola as a Conic Section; The Hyperbola as a Conic Section; Cuttings of Sphere; Developments; Interpenetration; Intersecting Mouldings; Pediment Mouldings; Tracery; Tracery Panels; Geometrical Tracery; Developments of Sphere; Hemispherical Dome; Barrel Vaulting; The Helix; Shadow Projection; Index
Biography
T.B. Nichols, N.P. Keep
