Understanding Structures: An Introduction to Structural Analysis

✍ Scribed by Mete A. Sozen (Author); Toshikatsu Ichinose (Author)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2009
• Leaves: 365
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Before structural mechanics became the common language of structural engineers, buildings were built based on observed behavior, with every new solution incurring high levels of risk. Today, the pendulum has swung in the other direction. The web of structural mechanics is so finely woven that it hides the role of experience in design, again leading to high levels of risk.

Understanding Structures brings the art and science of structures into the environment of a computer game.  The book imparts a basic understanding of how buildings and bridges resist gravity, wind, and earthquake loads. Its interactive presentation of topics spans elementary concepts of force in trusses to bending of beams and the response of multistory, multi-bay frames.

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✦ Table of Contents

Trusses

What is a Truss?

Bar in Tension or Compression

Symmetrical Truss with Two Elements of Equal Size at 90°

Symmetrical Truss with Two Elements at Various Orientations

Unsymmetrical Truss with Two Elements

Truss with Three Members

Hands-on Approach to Truss Design

Analysis of Statically Determinate Trusses

Stable Trusses

Building a Truss

Problems

Moments and Deflections in Cantilever Beams

What is a Bending Moment?

What is a Shear Force?

What is a Distributed Load?

What is a Couple?

The Effects of Moment on Stresses in a Beam

The Effects of Moment on Strains in a Beam

Deformation of a Beam—Spring Model

Deformation of a Beam—Continuously Deformable Model

Moment and Deflections in Simply Supported Beams

The Effect of a Concentrated Load on Shear, Moment, and Deflection

The Effect of Several Concentrated Loads on Shear, Moment, and  Deflection

Similarities between Beam and Truss Response

Construction and Test of a Timber Beam

Bending and Shear Stresses

First Moment

Second Moment and Section Modulus

Construction and Test of a Styrofoam Beam

Shear Stress

Frames

Introductory Concepts

A Simple Bent

A Portal Frame

Statically Indeterminate Frame

Multistory Frame

Three-Hinged Frame

Buckling

Simple Models

Continuously Deformable Model

Problems

List of Symbols

Index

✦ Subjects

Engineering & Technology;Civil, Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering;Structural Engineering;Mining, Mineral & Petroleum Engineering;Mining Engineering;Mining Construction