Introduction to Structures

This book focuses on the changes made in building science and practice by the advent of computers. It explains many more tools now available in the contemporary engineering environment. The book discusses the more commonly used topics of structural failure, cable-nets and fabric structures, and topics of non-linear analysis. Problems with solutions are provided.* Focusses on the changes made in building science and practice by the advent of computers * Discusses structural failure, cable-nets and fabric structures, and topics of non-linear analysis * Chapters discuss statically determinate and indeterminate structures, deflections of structures and provides solutions to problems Content: INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURES , Page i Dedication , Page i ABOUT OUR AUTHOR , Page ii Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv Foreword , Pages ix-x Foreword to Second Edition , Page x 1 - Introduction and Review , Pages 1-23 2 - Statically Determinate Structures , Pages 24-72 3 - Deflection of Structures , Pages 73-102 4 - Statically indeterminate structures , Pages 103-130 5 - Plastic analysis , Pages 131-161 6 - Uses of cables , Pages 162-184 7 - Moment distribution , Pages 185-203 8 - Influence lines and their application , Pages 204-212 References , Pages 213-216 Appendix 1 - The rotation matrix , Pages 217-220 APPENDIX 2 - Force-displacement duality of geometric instability , Page 221 APPENDIX 3 - Discontinuous functions , Pages 222-224 APPENDIX 4 - The Frenet Formulas , Pages 225-227 APPENDIX 5 - Kinematics of curved beams , Pages 228-229 APPENDIX 6 - The degree of statical indeterminancy , Pages 230-232 APPENDIX 7 - Some beam solutions , Page 233 APPENDIX 8 - A transcendental equation , Page 234 APPENDIX 9 - The effect of prestress , Pages 235-238 Index , Pages 239-240 This book focuses on the changes made in building science and practice by the advent of computers. It explains many more tools now available in the contemporary engineering environment. The book discusses the more commonly used topics of structural failure, cable-nets and fabric structures, and topics of non-linear analysis. Problems with solutions are provided.

• Focusses on the changes made in building science and practice by the advent of computers
• Discusses structural failure, cable-nets and fabric structures, and topics of non-linear analysis
• Chapters discuss statically determinate and indeterminate structures, deflections of structures and provides solutions to problems

Introduction to Structures covers basic structures concepts for architects and engineers, such as structural systems, material selection, statics, analysis, and the process of design and system selection.