Structural analysis : a unified classical and matrix approach

This comprehensive textbook, now in its sixth edition, combines classical and matrix-based methods of structural analysis and develops them concurrently. New solved examples and problems have been added, giving over 140 worked examples and more than 400 problems with answers. The introductory chapter on structural analysis modelling gives a good grounding to the beginner, showing how structures can be modelled as beams, plane or space frames and trusses, plane grids or assemblages of finite element. Idealization of loads, anticipated deformations, deflected shapes and bending moment diagrams are presented. Readers are also shown how to idealize real three-dimensional structures into simplified models that can be analyzed with little or no calculation, or with more involved calculations using computers. Dynamic analysis, essential for structures subject to seismic ground motion, is further developed in this edition and in a code-neutral manner. The topic of structural reliability analysis is discussed in a new chapter. Translated into six languages, this textbook is of considerable international renown, and is widely recommended by many civil and structural engineering lecturers to their students because of its clear and thorough style and content. 1. Structural analysis modelling2. Statically determinate structures3. Introduction to the analysis of statically indeterminate structures4. Force method of analysis5. Displacement method of analysis6. Use of force and displacement methods7. Strain energy and virtual work8. Determination of displacements by virtual work9. Important energy theorems10. Displacement of elastic structures by special methods11. Application of force and displacement methods12. Influence lines for beams, frames grids, arches, and trusses13. Effects of axial forces on flexural stiffness14. Analysis of shear-wall structures15. Method of finite differences16. Finite-element method17. Further development of finite-element method18. Plastic analysis of continuous beams and frames19. Yield-line and strip methods for slabs20. Structural dynamics and seismic analysis21. Computer analysis of framed structures22. Implementation of computer analysis23. Nonlinear analysis24. Structural reliability analysisAppendices