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Modern structural analysis : modelling process and guidance / Iain A. MacLeod.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Thomas Telford, 2005.Description: xiv, 191 p. : ill. ; casedISBN:
  • 6610932352 (electronic bk.)
  • 9786610932351 (electronic bk.)
  • 072773279X (Cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 624.171
Contents:
Scope and definitions -- Why 'modern' structural analysis? -- Issues for practice -- Issues for education -- Finite elements -- Accuracy of the information provided in the text -- Website -- Basic principles -- Managing the analysis process -- Modelling principles -- Principles in the use of structural mechanics -- Understanding structural behaviour -- The modelling process -- Overview of the modelling process -- Defining the system to be modelled -- The model development process -- Validation of the analysis model -- The solution process -- Verifying the results -- The modelling review -- Case studies -- Modelling with finite elements -- Introduction -- Elements -- Mesh refinement -- Case study -- convergence analysis of a plane stress cantilever beam model -- Constraints -- Symmetry.
Skeletal frames -- modelling with line elements -- Introduction -- Bending --Axial effects -- Torsion -- Bar elements and beam elements -- Connections -- Distribution of load in skeletal frames -- Modelling curved and non-uniform members -- Triangulated frames -- Parallel chord trusses -- Vierendeel frames -- Grillage models -- 3D models -- Plastic collapse of frames -- Plates in bending and slabs -- Introduction -- Plate bending elements -- Concrete slabs -- Material models -- Introduction -- Linear elastic behaviour -- Non-linear material behaviour -- Support models -- Introduction -- Modelling support fixity -- Modelling the ground -- Foundation structures -- Loading -- Introduction -- Dead loading -- Live loading -- Wind loading -- Earthquake loading -- Fire -- Temperature -- Influence lines for moving loads.
Prestressing -- Impact loading -- Non-linear geometry -- Introduction -- Modelling for geometric non-linearity -- Critical load analysis of skeletal frames -- Global critical load analysis of building structures -- Dynamic behaviour -- Introduction -- Dynamic behaviour of a single mass and spring system -- Multi-degree of freedom systems -- Resonance -- Transient load -- Checking models for natural frequencies -- Case studies -- Case study 1 -- vierendeel frame -- Case study 2 -- four-storey building -- Appendix -- Tables of material and geometric properties -- Bibliography -- References -- Index -- Last Page.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Scope and definitions -- Why 'modern' structural analysis? -- Issues for practice -- Issues for education -- Finite elements -- Accuracy of the information provided in the text -- Website -- Basic principles -- Managing the analysis process -- Modelling principles -- Principles in the use of structural mechanics -- Understanding structural behaviour -- The modelling process -- Overview of the modelling process -- Defining the system to be modelled -- The model development process -- Validation of the analysis model -- The solution process -- Verifying the results -- The modelling review -- Case studies -- Modelling with finite elements -- Introduction -- Elements -- Mesh refinement -- Case study -- convergence analysis of a plane stress cantilever beam model -- Constraints -- Symmetry.

Skeletal frames -- modelling with line elements -- Introduction -- Bending --Axial effects -- Torsion -- Bar elements and beam elements -- Connections -- Distribution of load in skeletal frames -- Modelling curved and non-uniform members -- Triangulated frames -- Parallel chord trusses -- Vierendeel frames -- Grillage models -- 3D models -- Plastic collapse of frames -- Plates in bending and slabs -- Introduction -- Plate bending elements -- Concrete slabs -- Material models -- Introduction -- Linear elastic behaviour -- Non-linear material behaviour -- Support models -- Introduction -- Modelling support fixity -- Modelling the ground -- Foundation structures -- Loading -- Introduction -- Dead loading -- Live loading -- Wind loading -- Earthquake loading -- Fire -- Temperature -- Influence lines for moving loads.

Prestressing -- Impact loading -- Non-linear geometry -- Introduction -- Modelling for geometric non-linearity -- Critical load analysis of skeletal frames -- Global critical load analysis of building structures -- Dynamic behaviour -- Introduction -- Dynamic behaviour of a single mass and spring system -- Multi-degree of freedom systems -- Resonance -- Transient load -- Checking models for natural frequencies -- Case studies -- Case study 1 -- vierendeel frame -- Case study 2 -- four-storey building -- Appendix -- Tables of material and geometric properties -- Bibliography -- References -- Index -- Last Page.

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