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Plastic Design of Frames

Plastic Design of Frames

Plastic Design of Frames

Volume 2: Applications
March 2012
2. Applications
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    A good grasp of the theory of structures - the theoretical basis by which the strength, stiffness and stability of a building can be understood - is fundamental to structural engineers and architects. Yet most modern structural analysis and design is carried out by computer, with the user isolated from the processes in action. Plastic Design of Frames; Volume 1. Fundamentals provides a broad introduction to the mathematics behind a range of structural processes. Some of the techniques used in this book may be familiar to the reader, and some may not, but each of the topics examined will give the structural engineer valuable insight into the basis of the subject. This companion book Plastic Design of Frames; Volume 2. Applications provides additional advanced topics and case studies. This lucid second volume provides a valuable read for structural engineers and others who wish to deepen their knowledge of the structural analysis and design of buildings.

    • Includes graded, solved example exercises
    • Chapter 8 covers numerical analysis
    • Chapter 10 is on a design example

    Reviews & endorsements

    'This well produced book can be warmly recommended.' Civil Engineering

    'There is no doubt that this book will come to be regarded as one of the best, if not the best, basic teaching book on plastic design and analysis of frames.' Aeronautical Journal

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    Product details

    March 2012
    Adobe eBook Reader
    9781139118194
    0 pages
    0kg
    38 tables 68 exercises
    This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.

    Table of Contents

    • 1. The yield surface
    • 2. Elementary space frames
    • 3. Unsymmetrical bending
    • 4. Reinforced concrete and masonry
    • 5. Elastic-plastic analysis
    • 6. Repeated loading
    • 7. Minimum weight design
    • 8. Numerical analysis
    • 9. Multi-storey frames
    • 10. A design example.
      Author
    • Jaques Heyman

      Jaques Heyman is the former Head of the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and the author of ten books, including The Stone Skeleton, Elements of the Theory of Structures, Structural Analysis: A Historical Approach, Elements of Stress Analysis, the two-volume set Plastic Design Frames: Volume 1 Fundamentals and Volume 2 Applications, with Lord Baker, and the forthcoming Basic Structural Theory. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He acted as a consulting engineer for a number of English cathedrals and as a member of the Architectural Advisory Panel for Westminster Abbey and of the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England, and he has served on many British Standards committees. The Stone Skeleton won the Choice Outstanding Academic Books Award in 1996.