Introduction to Structures
Published on 1. September 2002
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-898563-94-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
530 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-898563-94-5 (9781898563945)
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W. R. Spillers
Introduction to Structures
E-Book
09/2002
Woodhead Publishing
€68.95
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Person
William R. Spillers, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Content
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.