Structures, CourseSmart eTextbook, 6th Edition

For courses in Structures or Structural Analysis and Design.

 

With a focus on how structures really work, this book offers single-volume coverage of all major topics in structural analysis and design. Discussing concepts from both an engineering and architectural perspective, it explores structural behavior, structural analysis and design within a building context. This edition features a new co-author, new graphic format and expanded coverage in the areas of computer-aided analysis techniques, design of multi-story buildings, shell structures and cable supported beams. Reinforcing the real-world perspective of the text, each book contains Multiframe structural analysis software to engage students in sophisticated analysis and design activities.

PART I: INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS

1. Structures: An Overview

2. Principles of Mechanics

3. Introduction to Structural Analysis and Design

 

PART II: ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS

4. Trusses

5. Funicular Structures: Cables and Arches

6. Beams

7. Members in Compression: Columns

8. Continuous Structures: Beams

9. Continuous Structures: Rigid Frames

10. Plate and Grid Structures

11. Membrane and Net Structures

12. Shell Structures

 

PART III: PRINCIPLES OF STRUCTURAL DESIGN

13. Structural Grids and Patterns: General Planning and Design

14. Structural Systems: Design for Lateral Loadings

15. Structural Systems: Constructional Approaches

16. Structural Connections

 

APPENDICES

1. Conversions

2. Nonconcurrent Force Systems

3. Moments of Distributed Loads

4. Centroids

5. Moments of Inertia

6. Bending Stresses in Beams

7. Shearing Stresses in Beams

8. Moment-Curvature Relations

9. Deflections

10. Moment-Area Theorems: Slopes and Deflections

11. Other Methods of Analyzing Indeterminate Structures

12. Reinforced-Concrete Beams: Detailed U.S. Design Procedures

13. Critical Buckling Loads for Compression Members

14. Computer-Based Methods of Analysis: Force and Matrix-Displacement Techniques

15. Computer-Based Methods of Analysis: Finite-Element Techniques

16. Properties

17. Typical Material Properties