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Bridging the gap between what is traditionally taught in textbooks and classrooms and what is actually practiced in engineering firms, this indispensible text clearly and linearly details every solution method in the framework of the traditional Force Method and the matrix displacement method of analysis. It covers influence lines, non-prismatic members, composite structures, secondary stress analysis, and the limits of linear and static structural analysis. Integrating classical and modern methodologies, it explains complicated analysis using simplified methods and numerous examples and provides an understanding of the underlying methodologies of finite element analysis.

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This book covers most important materials of a first course on structural analysis. It is organized logically, presented concisely and written well. Classical analysis methods and modern matrix stiffness methods are of good balance. ... a very readable textbook. -Liang-Jenq Leu, Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan This book has two important features that make it unique - Both the force and displacement methods of analysis are given equal emphasis, and the matrix method is introduced at a very early stage. While the force method is important for students to learn how structures behave, the displacement method on which the matrix method is based has indubitable practical significance. Dr. Mau has done a superb job in espousing both theory and practice in his textbook. -Eric Lui, Syracuse University, New York, USA This book covers most important materials of a first course on structural analysis. It is organized logically, presented concisely and written well. Classical analysis methods and modern matrix stiffness methods are of good balance. ... a very readable textbook. -Liang-Jenq Leu, Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan This book has two important features that make it unique - Both the force and displacement methods of analysis are given equal emphasis, and the matrix method is introduced at a very early stage. While the force method is important for students to learn how structures behave, the displacement method on which the matrix method is based has indubitable practical significance. Dr. Mau has done a superb job in espousing both theory and practice in his textbook. -Eric Lui, Syracuse University, New York, USA

This book covers most important materials of a first course on structural analysis. It is organized logically, presented concisely and written well. Classical analysis methods and modern matrix stiffness methods are of good balance. ... a very readable textbook. -Liang-Jenq Leu, Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

This book covers most important materials of a first course on structural analysis. It is organized logically, presented concisely and written well. Classical analysis methods and modern matrix stiffness methods are of good balance. ... a very readable textbook. --Liang-Jenq Leu, Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

This book covers most important materials of a first course on structural analysis. It is organized logically, presented concisely and written well. Classical analysis methods and modern matrix stiffness methods are of good balance. ... a very readable textbook. -Liang-Jenq Leu, Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan This book has two important features that make it unique - Both the force and displacement methods of analysis are given equal emphasis, and the matrix method is introduced at a very early stage. While the force method is important for students to learn how structures behave, the displacement method on which the matrix method is based has indubitable practical significance. Dr. Mau has done a superb job in espousing both theory and practice in his textbook. -Eric Lui, Syracuse University, New York, USA

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S.T. Mau, PhD, PE, is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics at California State University, Northridge. He was formerly Dean of Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology and California State University, Northridge, and department chair at National Taiwan University and University of Houston. He is also the co-author of a previous textbook, Elementary Theory of Structures, Fourth Edition (1995), and a recipient of the Moisseiff Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

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