Stability Analysis and Design of Structures

✍ Scribed by Dr. Murari Lal Gambhir (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 541
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Rapid advances in analytical methods and computing enable engineers to apply stability/stiffness methods to increasingly complex real-life cases. This advanced and graduate-level text and self-tutorial teaches readers to understand and to apply analytical design principles across the breadth of the engineering sciences. Emphasizing fundamentals, the book addresses the stability of key engineering elements such as rigid-body assemblage, beam-columns, rigid frames, thin plates, arches, rings, or shells. Each chapter contains numerous worked-out problems that clarify practical application and aid comprehension of the basics of stability theory, plus end-of-chapter review exercises. Others key features are the citing and comparison of different national building standards, use of non-dimensional parameters, and many tables with much practical data and simplified formula, that enable readers to use them in the design of structural components.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Basic Principles....Pages 11-85
Rigid-Body Assemblages....Pages 87-117
Buckling of Axially Loaded Members (Columns)....Pages 119-169
Stability Analysis of Beam-Columns....Pages 171-212
Stability Analysis of Frames....Pages 213-290
Buckling of Members Having Open Sections....Pages 291-333
Elastic Buckling of Thin Flat Plates....Pages 335-396
Stability Analysis of Arches, Rings and Shells....Pages 397-424
Inelastic Buckling of Structures....Pages 425-452
Structural Design for Stability of Members....Pages 453-492
Back Matter....Pages 493-535

✦ Subjects

Structural Mechanics; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Engineering, general; Mechanical Engineering; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics