Structural Mechanics Fundamentals
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Structural Mechanics Fundamentals

  1. 512 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Structural Mechanics Fundamentals

About this book

Structural Mechanics Fundamentals gives you a complete and uniform treatment of the most fundamental and essential topics in structural mechanics. Presenting a traditional subject in an updated and modernized way, it merges classical topics with ones that have taken shape in more recent times, such as duality. This book is extensively based on the introductory chapters to the author's Structural Mechanics: A Unified Approach.

Coverage includes:

  • The basic topics of geometry of areas and of kinematics and statics of rigid body systems
  • The mechanics of linear elastic solids—beams, plates, and three-dimensional solids—examined using a matrix approach
  • The analysis of strain and stress around a material point
  • The linear elastic constitutive law, with related Clapeyron's and Betti's theorems
  • Kinematic, static, and constitutive equations
  • The implication of the principle of virtual work
  • The Saint Venant problem
  • The theory of beam systems—statically determinate or indeterminate
  • Methods of forces and energy for the examination of indeterminate beam systems

The book draws on the author's many years of teaching experience and features a wealth of illustrations and worked examples to help explain the topics clearly yet rigorously. The book can be used as a text for senior undergraduate or graduate students in structural engineering or architecture and as a valuable reference for researchers and practicing engineers.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Author
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction
  7. Chapter 2: Geometry of areas
  8. Chapter 3: Kinematics and statics of rigid body systems
  9. Chapter 4: Determination of constraint reactions
  10. Chapter 5: Internal beam reactions
  11. Chapter 6: Statically determinate beam systems
  12. Chapter 7: Analysis of strain and stress
  13. Chapter 8: Theory of elasticity
  14. Chapter 9: Saint Venant problem
  15. Chapter 10: Beams and plates in flexure
  16. Chapter 11: Statically indeterminate beam systems: Method of forces
  17. Chapter 12: Energy methods for the solution of beam systems
  18. Appendix A: Calculation of the internal reactions in a circular arch subjected to a radial hydrostatic load
  19. Appendix B: Calculation of the internal reactions in a circular arch subjected to a uniformly distributed vertical load
  20. Appendix C: Anisotropic material
  21. Appendix D: Heterogeneous beam
  22. Appendix E: Heterogeneous plate
  23. Appendix F: Finite difference method
  24. Appendix G: Torsion of multiply connected thin-walled cross sections
  25. Back Cover