Structural appraisal is important to professionals concerned with the repair; maintenance or refurbishment of traditional buildings. It involves recognizing and establishing the cause of any structural damage and; if the damage is still active predicting its course. Such knowledge forms the basis for appropriate and efficient action. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the common causes of structural damage. It examines the techniques for collecting evidence including desk study; visual inspection; distortion survey; testing and ground investigation as well as offering advice on managing liability. Each appraisal is unique. A wide range of investigative techniques are described covering most of the circumstances that are likely to occur in practice. The second edition has been substantially re-written and includes more than 150 diagrams illustrating the main principles. There is additional material on; structural behaviour; initial appraisal; building types; use of iron in buildings; and the problems that occur with buildings built on clay.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Here is a wonderful read about the unusual and gifted Richard BellamyBy Michael KleinHere is a wonderful read about the unusual and gifted Richard Bellamy. a rare kind of art dealer one who loved the art more than the business.But here too is a snapshot of a young art world before the world turned contemporary art into a billion dollar industry. This is a book about people who made history and it is an important story to know and enjoy.6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Bringing an Eye to the Sixties and attention to one of its great conductors.By Stuart RomeThis is a wonderful book; beautifully researched and written by Judith Stein about one of the most important figures of the 60s new york art scene and one of the least known. Dick Bellamy was a priest caste art dealer; try and put those two images together today - it aint gonna happen.This is a great feat - of love. curiosity and intelligence. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy - NOW!!!3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. The Zen-hedonism of a Celebrated Art DealerBy J. WilsonMiracles cant be explained. They can only be documented. In "Eye of the Sixties" Judith E. Stein scrupulously documents the uncanny prescience and Zen-hedonism (oxymoron intended) that made Richard Bellamys career unique in the history of art merchants.The period Stein covers is one of the most fecund in modern cultural history. On one hand. the book shows the art markets sudden transformation into something as giddy and glamorous as Wall Street would become two decades later. On the other. we see artists doing their damnedest to escape the clutches of convention and materialism--by making junk art. conflating such traditionally distinct mediums as dance. drama. sculpture and painting. recycling mass culture imagery. erasing signs of the artists hand. making art at scales that couldnt be corralled in galleries or museums. and finally distilling aesthetic experience into the transmission of ineffable ideas.Within this seething. churning cultural landscape. the figure of Richard Bellamy seems to float like a butterfly. He was definitely on the artists side. Yet his brilliant intuitions launched careers and fed movements integral to an art market boom he largely shunned. Along with the economic perils of his professional contradictions. Stein lets us glimpse some of the inner turbulence that accompanied the mans ability to quietly absorb the gist of all the conflicting stylistic impulses of the time.As someone who arrived in New York in the 1970s and stayed until 1990. I felt enlightened by the books multifaceted descriptions of people. places and events I either knew at a later date or heard vaguely sketched as legends and rumors. I closed its pages saddened by an unexpected sense of loss. I wonder how it will read to people more distanced from the magic time and places "Eye of the Sixties" so lovingly describes.
