Description
Efnisyfirlit
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Function of a structure
- 1.2 Loads
- 1.3 Structural systems
- 1.4 Support systems
- 1.5 Statically determinate and indeterminate structures
- 1.6 Analysis and design
- 1.7 Structural and load idealization
- 1.8 Structural elements
- 1.9 Materials of construction
- 1.10 The use of computers
- Chapter 2. Principles of Statics
- 2.1 Force
- 2.2 Moment of a force
- 2.3 The resultant of a system of parallel forces
- 2.4 Equilibrium of force systems
- 2.5 Calculation of support reactions
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 2 Problems
- Chapter 3. Normal Force, Shear Force, Bending Moment and Torsion
- 3.1 Types of load
- 3.2 Notation and sign convention
- 3.3 Normal force
- 3.4 Shear force and bending moment
- 3.5 Load, shear force and bending moment relationships
- 3.6 Torsion
- 3.7 Principle of superposition
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 3 Problems
- Chapter 4. Analysis of Pin-Jointed Trusses
- 4.1 Types of truss
- 4.2 Assumptions in truss analysis
- 4.3 Idealization of a truss
- 4.4 Statical determinacy
- 4.5 Resistance of a truss to shear force and bending moment
- 4.6 Method of joints
- 4.7 Method of sections
- 4.8 Method of tension coefficients
- 4.9 Graphical method of solution
- 4.10 Compound trusses
- 4.11 Space trusses
- 4.12 A computer-based approach
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 4 Problems
- Chapter 5. Cables
- 5.1 Lightweight cables carrying concentrated loads
- 5.2 Heavy cables
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 5 Problems
- Chapter 6. Arches
- 6.1 The linear arch
- 6.2 The three-pinned arch
- 6.3 A three-pinned parabolic arch carrying a uniform horizontally distributed load
- 6.4 Bending moment diagram for a three-pinned arch
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 6 Problems
- Chapter 7. Stress and Strain
- 7.1 Direct stress in tension and compression
- 7.2 Shear stress in shear and torsion
- 7.3 Complementary shear stress
- 7.4 Direct strain
- 7.5 Shear strain
- 7.6 Volumetric strain due to hydrostatic pressure
- 7.7 Stress–strain relationships
- 7.8 Poisson effect
- 7.9 Relationships between the elastic constants
- 7.10 Strain energy in simple tension or compression
- 7.11 Plane stress
- 7.12 Plane strain
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 7 Problems
- Chapter 8. Properties of Engineering Materials
- 8.1 Classification of engineering materials
- 8.2 Testing of engineering materials
- 8.3 Stress–strain curves
- 8.4 Strain hardening
- 8.5 Creep and relaxation
- 8.6 Fatigue
- 8.7 Design methods
- 8.8 Material properties
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 8 Problems
- Chapter 9. Bending of Beams
- 9.1 Symmetrical bending
- 9.2 Combined bending and axial load
- 9.3 Anticlastic bending
- 9.4 Strain energy in bending
- 9.5 Unsymmetrical bending
- 9.6 Calculation of section properties
- 9.7 Principal axes and principal second moments of area
- 9.8 Effect of shear forces on the theory of bending
- 9.9 Load, shear force and bending moment relationships, general case
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 9 Problems
- Chapter 10. Shear of Beams
- 10.1 Shear stress distribution in a beam of unsymmetrical section
- 10.2 Shear stress distribution in symmetrical sections
- 10.3 Strain energy due to shear
- 10.4 Shear stress distribution in thin-walled open section beams
- 10.5 Shear stress distribution in thin-walled closed section beams
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 10 Problems
- Chapter 11. Torsion of Beams
- 11.1 Torsion of solid and hollow circular section bars
- 11.2 Strain energy due to torsion
- 11.3 Plastic torsion of circular section bars
- 11.4 Torsion of a thin-walled closed section beam
- 11.5 Torsion of solid section beams
- 11.6 Warping of cross sections under torsion
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 11 Problems
- Chapter 12. Composite Beams
- 12.1 Steel-reinforced timber beams
- 12.2 Reinforced concrete beams
- 12.3 Steel and concrete beams
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 12 Problems
- Chapter 13. Deflection of Beams
- 13.1 Differential equation of symmetrical bending
- 13.2 Singularity functions
- 13.3 Moment-area method for symmetrical bending
- 13.4 Deflections due to unsymmetrical bending
- 13.5 Deflection due to shear
- 13.6 Statically indeterminate beams
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 13 Problems
- Chapter 14. Complex Stress and Strain
- 14.1 Representation of stress at a point
- 14.2 Determination of stresses on inclined planes
- 14.3 Principal stresses
- 14.4 Mohr’s circle of stress
- 14.5 Stress trajectories
- 14.6 Determination of strains on inclined planes
- 14.7 Principal strains
- 14.8 Mohr’s circle of strain
- 14.9 Experimental measurement of surface strains and stresses
- 14.10 Theories of elastic failure
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 14 Problems
- Chapter 15. Virtual Work and Energy Methods
- 15.1 Work
- 15.2 Principle of virtual work
- 15.3 Energy methods
- 15.4 Reciprocal theorems
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 15 Problems
- Chapter 16. Analysis of Statically Indeterminate Structures
- 16.1 Flexibility and stiffness methods
- 16.2 Degree of statical indeterminacy
- 16.3 Kinematic indeterminacy
- 16.4 Statically indeterminate beams
- 16.5 Statically indeterminate trusses
- 16.6 Braced beams
- 16.7 Portal frames
- 16.8 Two-pinned arches
- 16.9 Slope–deflection method
- 16.10 Moment distribution
- 16.11 Portal frames
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 16 Problems
- Chapter 17. Matrix Methods of Analysis
- 17.1 Axially loaded members
- 17.2 Stiffness matrix for a uniform beam
- 17.3 Finite element method for continuum structures
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 17 Problems
- Chapter 18. Plastic Analysis of Beams and Frames
- 18.1 Theorems of plastic analysis
- 18.2 Plastic analysis of beams
- 18.3 Plastic analysis of frames
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 18 Problems
- Chapter 19. Yield Line Analysis of Slabs
- 19.1 Yield line theory
- 19.2 Discussion
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 19 Problems
- Chapter 20. Influence Lines
- 20.1 Influence lines for beams in contact with the load
- 20.2 Mueller-Breslau principle
- 20.3 Systems of travelling loads
- 20.4 Influence lines for beams not in contact with the load
- 20.5 Forces in the members of a truss
- 20.6 Influence lines for continuous beams
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 20 Problems
- Chapter 21. Structural Instability
- 21.1 Euler theory for slender columns
- 21.2 Limitations of the Euler theory
- 21.3 Failure of columns of any length
- 21.4 Effect of cross section on the buckling of columns
- 21.5 Stability of beams under transverse and axial loads
- 21.6 Energy method for the calculation of buckling loads in columns (Rayleigh–Ritz Method)
- Problems
- Solutions to Chapter 21 Problems
- Appendix A. Table of Section Properties
- Appendix B. Bending of Beams: Standard Cases
- Index




