Handbook of Staircases, Escalators and Moving Walkways

This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the analysis and design of staircases, escalators and moving walkways. It presents the various analytical and numerical designs, experimental methods and assessments in simplified form. Early chapters deal with staircases, covering the general requirements for the analysis, design and structural detailing of staircases in various materials. All the available classical methods including those developed by Taleb, Gould, Libenberg, Siev, Morgan and Cohen follow, with numerous examples. Several design examples are given of freestanding and other geometric staircases, along with ttheir elements and components. These examples relate to cases studies given in earlier chapters and all examples are checked using appropriate Euro, British, and American Codes. The section concludes with the necessary structural detailing. Escalators and moving walkways are described, beginning with manufacturers' data and various codified methods including design loads and materialsproperties. Static and dynamic analyses are given for various elements and components and the dynamic analysis of interaction of the escalators is given in detail. Structural detailing of escalators and their components is also covered. Planning, codified methods and analysis, and design case studies are included throughout. The appendices provide a comprehensive bibliography and facilitate a comparative study of different international practice and code requirements. This book is a definitive resource for engineers, designers and contractors. The full explanations will assist anyone faced with the task of designing or detailing complicated staircases and escalators with unusual boundary conditions. Contractors will also find this book useful in the preparation of construction drawings, and manufacturers will be interested in the guidance recording codified and newly developed methods.Bangash, M. Y. H. is the author of 'Handbook of Staircases, Escalators and Moving Walkways', published 2010 under ISBN 9781420074505 and ISBN 1420074504.