Structures
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Author(s): P. Bhatt
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN:  0582312221
Format: softback
  597pp
Price: £26.99
Review Date: May 23, 2000
Review: This textbook provides undergraduates with a comprehensive up-to-date understanding of the subject matter covered in courses on solid and structural mechanics. It has chapters on: the statics and analysis of statically determinate structures; influence lines for statically determinate structures; simple stress systems; deformation of elements; deformation of structures; the stiffness method; the moment distribution method; elastic stability analysis; structural dynamics; virtual work and energy principles; and limit analysis plane frames. It enables the student to obtain a thorough understanding of the techniques available for analysing and predicting stress in any skeletal structure. There are simple practical examples and end-of-chapter problems.