<p>This book was developed while I was teaching graduate courses on analysis, design and optimization of structures, in the United States, Europe and Israel. Structural analysis is a main part of any design problem, and the analysis often must be repeated many times during the design process. Much w
Design-Oriented Analysis of Structures A Unified Approach
β Scribed by Uri Kirsch
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 257
- Series
- Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, Volume 95
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book deals with problems of multiple repeated analyses (reanalysis) of structures. It introduces various concepts and methods, and presents them in a unified approach. This should prove useful to students, researchers, consultants, and practising engineers involved in analysis and design of structures. Reanalysis is common to numerous analysis and design tasks, and it is needed in such areas as structural optimisation, damage analysis, non-linear analysis, and probabilistic analysis. The material presented in the text is related to a wide range of applications in such fields as aerospace engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, and naval architecture. The book discusses various analysis models, including linear and non-linear analysis, static and dynamic analysis, and design sensitivity analysis. It presents direct as well as approximate methods, and demonstrates how various concepts and methods are integrated to achieve effective solution procedures. Previous books on structural analysis do not cover most of the material presented in the book. To clarify the presentation, many illustrative examples and numerical results are demonstrated.
β¦ Table of Contents
Preliminaries......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 12
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 16
INTRODUCTION......Page 20
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS......Page 34
REANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES......Page 58
DIRECT METHODS......Page 72
LOCAL APPROXIMATIONS......Page 82
GLOBAL APPROXIMATIONS......Page 102
COMBINED APPROXIMATIONS (CA)......Page 126
SIMPLIFIED SOLUTION PROCEDURES......Page 154
TOPLOGICAL AND GEOMETRICAL CHANGES......Page 178
DESIGN SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS......Page 204
NONLINEAR REANALYSIS......Page 224
VIBRATION REANALYSIS......Page 238
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 250
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