Structural and stress analysis

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Structural and Stress Analysis

Contents

Preface to First Edition

Preface to Second Edition

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

1.1 Function of a structure

1.2 Loads

1.3 Structural systems

BEAMS

TRUSSES

MOMENT FRAMES

ARCHES

CABLES

SHEAR AND CORE WALLS

CONTINUUM STRUCTURES

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

STEEL

CONCRETE

TIMBER

MASONRY

ALUMINIUM

CAST IRON, WROUGHT IRON

COMPOSITE MATERIALS

1.10 The use of computers

CHAPTER 2 Principles of Statics

2.1 Force

PARALLELOGRAM OF FORCES

THE RESULTANT OF A SYSTEM OF CONCURRENT FORCES

EQUILIBRANT OF A SYSTEM OF CONCURRENT FORCES

THE RESULTANT OF A SYSTEM OF NON-CONCURRENT FORCES

2.2 Moment of a force

COUPLES

EQUIVALENT FORCE SYSTEMS

2.3 The resultant of a system of parallel forces

2.4 Equilibrium of force systems

2.5 Calculation of support reactions

PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 3 Normal Force, Shear Force, Bending Moment and Torsion

3.1 Types of load

AXIAL LOAD

SHEAR LOAD

BENDING MOMENT

TORSION

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

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

CHAPTER 5 Cables

5.1 Lightweight cables carrying concentrated loads

5.2 Heavy cables

GOVERNING EQUATION FOR DEFLECTED SHAPE

CABLE UNDER ITS OWN WEIGHT

CABLE SUBJECTED TO A UNIFORM HORIZONTALLY DISTRIBUTED LOAD

SUSPENSION BRIDGES

PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 6 Arches

6.1 The linear arch

6.2 The three-pinned arch

SUPPORT REACTIONS

SUPPORTS ON SAME HORIZONTAL LEVEL

SUPPORT REACTIONS

SUPPORTS ON DIFFERENT LEVELS

6.3 A three-pinned parabolic arch carrying a uniform horizontally distributed load

6.4 Bending moment diagram for a three-pinned arch

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

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