Introduction to Structures
Published on 1. September 2002
256 pages
978-1-78242-055-2 (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.
- Focusses on the changes made in building science and practice by the advent of computers
- Discusses structural failure, cable-nets and fabric structures, and topics of non-linear analysis
- Chapters discuss statically determinate and indeterminate structures, deflections of structures and provides solutions to problems
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W. R. Spillers
Introduction to Structures
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09/2002
Horwood Publishing Ltd
€89.32
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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.
