Fundamentals of structural analysis
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Fundamentals of structural analysis
(The McGraw-Hill series in civil and environmental engineering)
McGraw-Hill, c2002
International Edition
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Description
This book introduces engineering and architectural students to the basic techniques for analysing most common structural elements, including beams, trusses, frames, cables and arches. The text covers the classical methods of analysis for determinate and indeterminate structures, and provides an introduction to matrix formulation, the basis of computer analysis. Extensive and fully worked out examples are used to illustrate all principles and techniques, and an increased number of homework problems gives the student in-depth understanding of structural behaviour. The discussion on approximate analysis will enable students to verify the accuracy of a computer analysis, as well as to estimate the preliminary design forces required to size individual components of multimember structures during the early design phase, when the tentative configuration and proportions of members are established.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction. 2. Design Loads. 3. Statics of Structures: Reactions. 4. Trusses. 5. Beams and Frames. 6. Cables. 7. Arches. 8. Live-Load Forces: Influence Lines for Determinate Structures. 9. Deflections of Beams and Frames. 10. Work-Energy Methods for Computing Deflections. 11. Analysis of Indeterminate Structures by the Flexibility Method. 12. Analysis of Indeterminate Beams and Frames by the Slope-Deflection Method. 13. Moment Distribution. 14. Indeterminate Structures: Influence Lines. 15. Approximate Analysis of Indeterminate Structures. 16. Introduction to the General Stiffness Method and Review of Basic Matrix Operations. 17. Matrix Analysis of Trusses by the Direct Stiffness Method. 18. Matrix Analysis of Beams and Frames by the Direct Stiffness Method. Appendix A. Appendix B. Solutions to Selected Problems. Index.
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