How To Build With Grid Beam
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How to Build with Grid Beam
Author: Phil Jergenson
language: en
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Release Date: 2008-06-01
Grid beam is a modular, reusable building system that is fast, easy, affordable and virtually goof-proof. Ordinary people, with few skills and even fewer tools (all you need is a wrench!) can tackle projects ranging from furniture and shop benches to more ambitious projects like wind turbines, truck racks, small buildings--even electric vehicles. Grid beam's modular pieces and bolt-together construction make the system fast and straightforward to work with. It has all the advantages of an industrial building system: standard, modular sizes; uniform materials; and interchangeable parts. Projects knock flat and are easy to transport. Since the pieces can be used over and over again, grid beam is easy both on your wallet and on the environment -- the authors have been using some of their components for over 30 years. How to Build with Grid Beam includes hundreds of photos of real projects built over a 60-year period, showing the many uses of grid beam, from shelves for college students to projects involving alternative energy. The versatility of grid beam is inspiring, for beginners, more experienced do-it-yourselfers, and innovators who will develop their own designs. Even school-age children can use grid beam to build simple projects.
The Way We Build Now
This book examines the structural and construction design of buildings. The first part presents an overview of materials and structural forms taking the point of view of the designer, architect and engineer. The second part is an extensive examination of over 70 case studies. They have been carefully selected and tightly structured to present a summary of established modern methods of building construction. It contains copious ready-reference charts of design information, numerous photographs and meticulous axonometric drawings. The book is international in scope. Dual units are used throughout (SI and Imperial) and nearly half the case studies are taken from the USA. Cases are also drawn from Canada, Europe, Africa, Malaysia, Hong Kong as well as 25 from the UK.
New Electron Beam Optics for the Preparation of Insulating Crystals by the Floating Zone Method
The problems involved in the preparation of single crystals of refractory insulating materials are briefly outlined. The current status of the preparation of insulating crystals by the electron beam heated floating-zone method is reviewed, and the disadvantages are noted. The conception, construction and test of a new electron beam optics are described, and the advantages are pointed out. Sapphire, ruby and tungsten rods were zoned in testing the new optics. The influence of zone length, liquid - solid interface geometry, foreheater and afterheater temperature, and mechanical translation and rotation systems on crystal perfection are discussed. (Author).