Introduction to Structures
Author:   W R Spillers (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science & Technology
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Volume:   10
ISBN:  

9781898563945


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 September 2002
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained


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This compact coverage of the main topics of a structural analysis course focuses on changes in building science, and practice made by the advent of computers. It explains many more tools now available in contemporary engineering environment of which the engineer must have greater knowledge. 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 provided, make the text useable to both students and instructors.

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Author:   W R Spillers (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science & Technology
Imprint:   Horwood Publishing Ltd
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Volume:   10
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9781898563945


ISBN 10:   1898563942
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 September 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

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.

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