Special Structure Topics covers specialty structural situations for students and professional architects and engineers, such as soil mechanics, structural retrofit, structural integrity, cladding design, blast considerations, vibration, and structural sustainability. As part of the Architect’s Guidebooks to Structures series it provides a comprehensive overview using both imperial and metric units of measurement with more than 150 black and white images. As a compact summary of key ideas, it is ideal for anyone needing a quick guide to specialty structural considerations.