Analysis of Structures

An Introduction Including Numerical Methods

Joe G. Eisley, Antony M. Waas

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781119993544
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Aeronautic & Astronautic Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Analysis of Structures offers an original way of introducing engineering students to the subject of stress and deformation analysis of solid objects, and helps them become more familiar with how numerical methods such as the finite element method are used in industry.

Eisley and Waas secure for the reader a thorough understanding of the basic numerical skills and insight into interpreting the results these methods can generate.

Throughout the text, they include analytical development alongside the computational equivalent, providing the student with the understanding that is necessary to interpret and use the solutions that are obtained using software based on the finite element method. They then extend these methods to the analysis of solid and structural components that are used in modern aerospace, mechanical and civil engineering applications.

Analysis of Structures is accompanied by a book companion website www.wiley.com/go/waas housing exercises and examples that use modern software which generates color contour plots of deformation and internal stress.It offers invaluable guidance and understanding to senior level and graduate students studying courses in stress and deformation analysis as part of aerospace, mechanical and civil engineering degrees as well as to practicing engineers who want to re-train or re-engineer their set of analysis tools for contemporary stress and deformation analysis of solids and structures.

• Provides a fresh, practical perspective to the teaching of structural analysis using numerical methods for obtaining answers to real engineering applications

• Proposes a new way of introducing students to the subject of stress and deformation analysis of solid objects that are used in a wide variety of contemporary engineering applications

• Casts axial, torsional and bending deformations of thin walled objects in a framework that is closely amenable to the methods by which modern stress analysis software operates.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• About the Authors
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Forces and Moments
• Chapter 2: Static Equilibrium
• Chapter 3: Displacement, Strain, and Material Properties
• Chapter 4: Classical Analysis of the Axially Loaded Slender Bar
• Chapter 5: A General Method for the Axially Loaded Slender Bar
• Chapter 6: Torsion
• Chapter 7: Classical Analysis of the Bending of Beams
• Chapter 8: A General Method (FEM) for the Bending of Beams
• Chapter 9: More about Stress and Strain, and Material Properties
• Chapter 10: Combined Loadings on Slender Bars—Thin Walled Cross Sections
• Chapter 11: Work and Energy Methods—Virtual Work
• Chapter 12: Structural Analysis in Two and Three Dimensions
• Chapter 13: Analysis of Thin Laminated Composite Material Structures
• Chapter 14 : Buckling
• Chapter 15: Structural Dynamics
• Chapter 16: Evolution in the (Intelligent) Design and Analysis of Structural Members
• Appendix A: Matrix Definitions and Operations
• Appendix B: Area Properties of Cross Sections
• Appendix C: Solving Sets of Linear Algebraic Equations with Mathematica
• Appendix D: Orthogonality of Normal Modes
• References
• Index