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Stablllty of structures: elastic, lnelastic, fracture and damage theories

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It is our hope that this book will serve both as a textbook for graduate courses on stability of structures and a reference volume for engineers and scientists. We assume the student has a background in mathematics and mechanics only at the level of the B.S. degree in civil or mechanical engineering, though in the last four chapters we assume a more advanced background. We cover subjects relevant to civil, structural, mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, as well as materials science, although in the first half of the book we place somewhat more emphasis on the civil engineering applications than on others. We include many original derivations as well as some new research results not yet published in periodicals.

Our desire is to achieve understanding rather than just knowledge. We try to proceed in each problem from special to general, from simple to complex, treating each subject as concisely as we can and at the lowest possible level of mathematical apparatus we know, but not so low as to sacrifice efficiency of presentation. We include a large number (almost 700) of exercise problems. Solving many of them is, in our experience, essential for the student to master the subject.

In some curricula, the teaching of stability is fragmented into courses on structural mechanics, design of steel structures, design of concrete structures, structural dynamics, plates and shells, finite elements, plasticity, viscoelasticity, and continuum mechanics. Stability theory, however, stands at the heart of
structural and continuum mechanics. Whoever understands it understands mechanics. The methods of stability analysis in various applications are similar, resting on the same principles. A fundamental understanding of these principles, which is not easy to acquire, is likely to be sacrificed when stability is taught by bits, in various courses. Therefore, in our opinion, it is preferable to teach stability in a single course, which should represent the core of the mechanics program in civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering.

Existing textbooks of structural stability, except for touching on elastoplastic columns, deal almost exclusively with elastic stability. The modern stability problems of fracture and damage, as well as the thermodynamic principles of stability of irreversible systems, have not been covered in textbooks. Even the
catastrophe theory, as general is it purports to be, has been limited to systems that possess a potential, which implies elastic behavior. Reflecting recent research results, we depart from tradition, devoting about half of the book to nonelastic stability.

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New York : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.., 2010

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xxi, 1011 Hlm.

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English

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978-981-4317-02-3

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TEKNIK SIPIL
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