Basic Structural Theory

Jacques Heyman
Cambridge University Press, 7/17/2014
EAN 9781107427273, ISBN10: 1107427274

Paperback, 150 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm
Language: English

This text introduces the basic equations of the theory of structures. Conventional presentations of these equations follow the ideas of elastic analysis, introduced nearly two hundred years ago. The book is written against the background of advances made in structural theory during the last fifty years, notably by the introduction of so-called plastic theory. The emphasis throughout is on the derivation and application of the structural equations, rather than on details of their solution (nowadays best done by computer), and the numerical examples are deliberately kept simple.

1. Introduction
2. Strength
3. Stiffness
4. Elastic analysis
5. Stability
Appendix A. Virtual work
Appendix B. The plastic theorems
Appendix C. Buckling calculations.