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Introduction to structures /
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 topi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, England ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; New Delhi, India :
Woodhead Publishing,
2011.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Colección: | Woodhead Publishing series in civil and structural engineering.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Introduction to Structures, 2nd Edition; Dedication; About our Author; Introduction to Structures; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Foreword to Second Edition; Chapter 1. Introduction and Review; 1.1 MODELING; 1.2 NOTATION; 1.3 RIGID BODY MECHANICS; 1.4 THE CONCEPT OF STRESS RESULTANTS; 1.5 EXERCISES; Chapter 2. Statically Determinate Structures; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 STATICALLY DETERMINATE TRUSSES; 2.3 FRAMES; 2.4 MEMBRANE SHELLS; 2.5 EXERCISES; Chapter 3. Deflection of Structures; 3.1 VIRTUAL WORK FOR TRUSSES; 3.2 Virtual Work for Plane Frames.
- 3.3 MORE GENERAL APPLICATIONS3.4 COMPUTATION OF DISCONTINUITIES; 3.5 REAL STRUCTURES versus VIRTUAL STRUCTURES; 3.6 EXERCISES; Chapter 4. Statically indeterminate structures; 4.1 THE FORCE METHOD; 4.2 THE DISPLACEMENT METHOD; 4.3 EXERCISES; Chapter 5. Plastic analysis; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 THE CONCEPT OF A PLASTIC HINGE; 5.3 PROPORTIONAL LOADING; 5.4 MOMENT REDISTRIBUTION; 5.5 ANALYSIS THEOREMS; 5.6 Computing Plastic Collapse Loads; 5.7 EXTENSIONS; 5.8 EXERCISES; Chapter 6. Uses of cables; 6.1 PLANE CABLES; 6.2 BEAMS WITH CABLES; 6.3 A STATICALLY DETERMINATE SUSPENSION BRIDGE.
- 6.4 A SIMPLE EXAMPLE OF AN AIR-SUPPORTED STRUCTURE6.5 CABLES IN THREE DIMENSIONS; 6.6 EXERCISES; Chapter 7. Moment distribution; 7.1 MEMBER STIFFNESS AND JOINT DISTRIBUTION FACTORS; 7.2 FRAME PROBLEMS AND SIDESWAY; 7.3 GENERALIZATIONS AND EXTENSIONS; 7.4 EXERCISES; Chapter 8. Influence lines and their application; 8.1 THE MUELLER-BRESLAU PRINCIPLE; 8.2 AN EXAMPLE FROM BUILDING DESIGN; 8.3 MOVING LOADS; 8.4 PLACING MOVING LOADS FOR MAXIMUM MOMENT; 8.5 EXERCISES; Chapter 9. References; Appendices; Appendix 1: The rotation matrix; APPENDIX 2: Force-displacement duality of geometric instability.
- APPENDIX 3: Discontinuous functionsAPPENDIX 4: The Frenet Formulas; APPENDIX 5: Kinematics of curved beams; APPENDIX 6: The degree of statical indeterminancy; APPENDIX 7: Some beam solutions; APPENDIX 8: A transcendental equation; APPENDIX 9: The effect of prestress; Index.