Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Leet, Kenneth M., author

Title Fundamentals of structural analysis / Kenneth M. Leet, [and 3 others]
Edition Fifth edition
Published New York, NY : McGraw-Hill Education, [2018]

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Contents Intro; Title; Copyright; About the Authors; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Overview of the Text; 1.2 The Design Process: Relationship of Analysis to Design; 1.3 Strength and Serviceability; 1.4 Historical Development of Structural Systems; 1.5 Basic Structural Elements; 1.6 Assembling Basic Elements to Form a Stable Structural System; 1.7 Analyzing by Computer; 1.8 Preparation of Computations; Summary; Chapter 2 Design Loads and Structural Framing; 2.1 Building and Design Code; 2.2 Loads; 2.3 Dead Loads and Gravity Framing; 2.4 Live Loads; 2.5 Snow Loads
2.6 Lateral Load-Resisting Systems2.7 Natural Hazards; 2.8 Wind Loads; 2.9 Earthquake Loads; 2.10 Tsunami Loads; 2.11 Other Loads; 2.12 Load Combinations; Summary; Chapter 3 Statics of Structures-Reactions; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Forces; 3.3 Supports; 3.4 Idealizing Structures; 3.5 Free-Body Diagrams; 3.6 Equations of Static Equilibrium; 3.7 Equations of Condition; 3.8 Influence of Reactions on Stability and Determinacy of Structures; 3.9 Classifying Structures; 3.10 Comparison between Determinate and Indeterminate Structures; Summary; Chapter 4 Trusses; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Types of Trusses
4.3 Analysis of Trusses4.4 Method of Joints; 4.5 Zero Bars; 4.6 Method of Sections; 4.7 Determinacy and Stability; 4.8 Computer Analysis of Trusses; Summary; Chapter 5 Beams and Frames; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Scope of Chapter; 5.3 Equations for Shear and Moment; 5.4 Shear and Moment Curves; 5.5 Principle of Superposition; 5.6 Sketching the Deflected Shape of a Beam or Frame; 5.7 Degree of Indeterminacy; 5.8 Approximate Indeterminate Structural Analysis; Summary; Chapter 6 Cables and Arches; 6.1 Cables; 6.2 Characteristics of Cables; 6.3 Variation of Cable Force
6.4 Analysis of a Cable Supporting Concentrated Gravity Loads6.5 General Cable Theorem; 6.6 Arches; 6.7 Types of Arches; 6.8 Three-Hinged Arches; 6.9 Funicular Shape of an Arch; 6.10 Funicular Shape for an Arch That Supports a Uniformly Distributed Load; Summary; Chapter 7 Deflections of Beams and Frames; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Double Integration Method; 7.3 Moment-Area Method; 7.4 Elastic Load Method; 7.5 Conjugate Beam Method; 7.6 Design Aids for Beams; Summary; Chapter 8 Work-Energy Methods for Computing Deflections; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Work; 8.3 Strain Energy
8.4 Deflections by the Work-Energy Method (Real Work)8.5 Virtual Work: Trusses; 8.6 Virtual Work: Beams and Frames; 8.7 Finite Summation; 8.8 Bernoulli's Principle of Virtual Displacements; 8.9 Maxwell-Betti Law of Reciprocal Deflections; Summary; Chapter 9 Analysis of Indeterminate Structures by the Flexibility Method; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Concept of a Redundant; 9.3 Fundamentals of the Flexibility Method; 9.4 Alternative View of the Flexibility Method (Closing a Gap); 9.5 Analysis Using Internal Releases; 9.6 Support Settlements, Temperature Change, and Fabrication Errors
Notes Includes index
9.7 Analysis of Structures with Several Degrees of Indeterminacy
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 09, 2019)
Subject Structural analysis (Engineering)
structural analysis.
Structural analysis (Engineering)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781260547146
1260547140