Matrix Methods of Structural Analysis

✍ Scribed by R.K. Livesley

• Publisher: Pergamon, Oxford
• Year: 1964
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 471
• Edition: 1st Edition/1st Printing
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Stability of Elastic Systems presents some of the most important aspects of the stability and the non-linear behavior at finite deformations of several types of structural elastic systems, which are important for a more precise understanding of the static performance of such systems.

This book is divided into eight chapters that aim to complete parts of classical, eigenvalue, theories of buckling and to demonstrate the important role played by finite deformations in the theoretical analyses of stability. Other chapters discuss the properties of prismatic members and the post-buckling behavior of plane frameworks. A chapter describes the elastic buckling and stability of statically determinate space frameworks. The remaining chapters cover the elastic buckling of statically indeterminate pin-jointed systems and space frameworks. These chapters also examine the non-conservative aspects of structural systems.

This book will be of great value to practicing engineers and students.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Pergamon Unified Engineering Series, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Inside Front Cover, Page v
Preface, Pages xi-xii
Introduction, Pages xiii-xvii
1 - Principal Forms of Equilibrium Paths and their Stability, Pages 1-136
2 - Analysis of Prismatic Members as Constitutive Elements of a System, Pages 137-195
3 - Elastic Buckling and Stability of Statically Determinate Plane Frameworks, Pages 196-248
4 - Elastic Buckling of Continuous Rigidly-jointed Plane Frameworks, Pages 249-268
5 - Elastic Buckling of Rigidly-jointed Plane Trusses, Pages 269-311
6 - Elastic Buckling and Stability of Statically Determinate Space Frameworks, Pages 312-328
7 - Elastic Buckling of Statically Indeterminate Pin-jointed Systems and Space Frameworks, Pages 329-389
8 - Non-conservative Aspects of Structural Systems, Pages 390-422
Appendix I, Pages 423-425
Appendix II - Effect of Axial Extensibility on the Equilibrium Configurations of Elastic Bars, Pages 426-427
Appendix III - Buckling Characteristics of a Single Member of the Frame†, Pages 428-430
Appendix IV - Motion of the System Near a Critical State, Pages 431-433
Appendix V - Developments of the More Accurate Solutions for Prismatic Members Under Large Axial forces in the Initial Stages of Plane Buckling, Pages 434-439
Appendix VI - Prismatic Members Under Small Axial Forces in the Initial Stages of Plane Buckling, Pages 440-443
Appendix VII - Two Exercises on Portal Frames, Pages 444-447
References and Related Bibliography†, Pages 449-454
Index, Pages 455-460
TITLES IN THE PERGAMON UNIFIED ENGINEERING SERIES, Page ibc1