Introduction to Structures

Revised
ISBN: 978-1-898563-94-5
Verlag: WOODHEAD PUB

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

Reihe: Woodhead Publishing Civil and

This book focuses on the changes made in building science and practice by the advent of computers. It explains many more tools now available in the contemporary engineering environment. The book discusses the more commonly used topics of structural failure, cable-nets and fabric structures, and topics of non-linear analysis. Problems with solutions are provided.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spillers, W. R.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Konstruktiver Ingenieurbau, Baustatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction and review; Statically determinate structures; Deflections of structures; Statically indeterminate structures; Plastic analysis; Uses of cables; Moment distribution; Influence lines and their application; References; Appendices 1 The rotation matrix; Appendices 2 Geometric instability; Appendices 3 Discontinuous functions; Appendices 4 The Frenet formulas; Appendices 5 Kinematics of curved beams; Appendices 6 The degree of statical indeterminacy; Appendices 7 Some beam solutions; Appendices 8 A transcendental equation; Appendices 9 Effect of pre-stress; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Spillers, W. R.
William R. Spillers, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA