Structures
ISBN: 9780131789395 | 0131789392
Edition: 6thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 7/25/2007
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With a focus on how structures really work, this book offers single-volume coverage of all major topics in structural analysis and design. Discussing concepts from both an engineering and architectural perspective, it explores structural behavior, structural analysis and design within a building context. This edition features a new co-author, new graphic format and expanded coverage in the areas of computer-aided analysis techniques, design of multi-story buildings, shell structures and cable supported beams. Reinforcing the real-world perspect... MORE
| Introductory Concepts | |
| Structures: An Overview | |
| Principles of Mechanics | |
| Introduction to Structural Analysis and Design | |
| Analysis And Design Of Structural Elements | |
| Trusses | |
| Funicular Structures: Cables and Arches | |
| Beams | |
| Members in Compression: Columns | |
| Continuous Structures: Beams | |
| ... MORE | |
| Plate and Grid Structures | |
| Membrane and Net Structures | |
| Shell Structures | |
| Principles Of Structural Design | |
| Structural Grids and Patterns: General Planning and Design | |
| Structural Systems: Design for Lateral Loadings | |
| Structural Systems: Constructional Approaches | |
| Structural Connections | |
| Appendices | |
| Conversions | |
| Nonconcurrent Force Systems | |
| Moments of Distributed Loads | |
| Centroids | |
| Moments of Inertia | |
| Bending Stresses in Beams | |
| Shearing Stresses in Beams | |
| Moment-Curvature Relations | |
| Deflections | |
| Moment-Area Theorems: Slopes and Deflections | |
| Other Methods of Analyzing Indeterminate Structures | |
| Reinforced-Concrete Beams: Detailed U.S. Design Procedures | |
| Critical Buckling Loads for Compression Members | |
| Computer-Based Methods of Analysis: Force and Matrix-Displacement Techniques | |
| Computer-Based Methods of Analysis: Finite-Element Techniques | |
| Properties | |
| Typical Material Properties | |
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