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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807904903321

Autore

Heyman Jacques

Titolo

Basic structural theory / / Jacques Heyman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-107-18803-2

1-281-38348-1

9786611383480

0-511-39769-0

0-511-39844-1

0-511-39928-6

0-511-39619-8

0-511-40312-7

0-511-75448-5

0-511-39692-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 134 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

624.1/7

Soggetti

Structural analysis (Engineering) - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Structural assumptions -- Structural equations -- Strength -- Trussed frameworks -- Virtual work -- Structures in bending -- Plastic theory -- Masonry -- The structural state -- Stiffness -- The truss -- Bending stiffness -- Matrix formulation -- Elastic analysis -- Elastic properties: Reciprocal theorems; influence lines; indirect model tests; energy methods -- Methods of calculation: Slope-deflexion equations; moment distribution -- Stability -- Elastic buckling -- Practical behaviour -- Other buckling phenomena -- Appendix A: Virtual work -- Structures in bending -- Trusses -- Appendix B: The plastic theorems -- Appendix C: Buckling calculations.

Sommario/riassunto

This text introduces the basic equations of the theory of structures. Conventional presentations of these equations follow the ideas of elastic analysis, introduced nearly two hundred years ago. The book is written against the background of advances made in structural theory



during the last fifty years, notably by the introduction of so-called plastic theory. The emphasis throughout is on the derivation and application of the structural equations, rather than on details of their solution (nowadays best done by computer), and the numerical examples are deliberately kept simple.