This Jupyterbook serves as design guideline that will eventually replace the PDF textbooks Quick Reference and Vademecum.
Structural Engineering educators in the Faculties of Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CEG) and Architecture and the Built Environment (A&BE) make extensive use of a self-produced reference books that contain drawing instructions, design tables, material properties, equations, examples of structural elements, examples of calculations for dimensioning of structural elements and good design examples. Students use these reference books while participating in the many Structural Design classes at the faculties of CiTG and A&BE. In 2004, the “Info Map Constructieleer” was published by prof. Wagemans et al., in the format of a A4 ring binder which, over the years, has been used by thousands of students in structural design education since. In 2011, the content was updated and translated into English. This Quick Reference, as the name is, further abbreviated here as QR, can be found here as PDF (https://tinyurl.com/Reference-Tables). In 2021 the large parts of the QR were used to create a similar resource at the Architecture faculty called ‘Vademecum voor draagconstructies van gebouwen’, further abbreviated here as VDM. Until 2022, the QR and VDM were available as hardcopy and distributed by the VSSD shop, with copyrights remaining at the Faculty of CEG and A&BE.
This book is authored by:
- Roel Schipper (CEG -3md) project leader
- Sander Pasterkamp (CEG - 3md)
- Ate Snijder (A&BE - AE&T)
- Marco Schuurman (CEG - 3md)
- Geert Ravenshorst (CEG - ES)
The following Teaching Assistants were involved in the creation of this jupyterbook:
- Guus Meinema (MSc student CEG)
- Niels van Vliet (MSc student CEG)
The project was funded by the Open Education Stimulation Fund from the TU Delft.
Tom van Woudenberg, Robert Lanzafame, Freek Pols and their student army have made it possible to develop this Teachbook with minimal effort from our side on the infrastructure. Many thanks for your groundbraking preparations and supportive availability throughout the process!