Structural Analysis and Design : Some Microcomputer Applications.

Front Cover -- Structural Analysis and Design: Some Microcomputer Applications -- Copyrigh Page -- Tabe of Contents -- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- NOTATION -- CHAPTER 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL COMPUTATION -- 1.1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.2. THE MINICOMPUTER -- 1.3. LANGUAGES -- 1.4. SOME SMALL STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS -- 1.6. COMMENTS -- 1.7. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2. SOME BEAM CALCULATIONS -- 2.1. INTRODUCTION -- 2.2. THE SIMPLE UNIFORM BEAM -- 2.3. THE NON-UNIFORM BEAM -- 2.4. DESIGN OF PLATE GIRDERS -- 2.5. COMMENTS -- 2.6. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3. COMPUTATION OF BENDING STRESSES -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION -- 3.2. SIMPLE FLEXURAL THEORY -- 3.3. PROGRAMMING THE AREA CALCULATIONS -- 3.4. COMMENTS -- CHAPTER 4. ECCENTRICALLY LOADED CONNECTIONS -- 4.1. INTRODUCTION -- 4.2. ANALYSIS FOR BOLTED SHEAR CONNECTIONS -- 4.3. ANALYSIS FOR WELDED SHEAR CONNECTIONS -- 4.4. THE PROGRAMS FOR JOINT ANALYSIS -- 4.5. COMMENTS -- 4.6. REFERENCE -- CHAPTER 5. SOLUTION OF SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS -- 5.1. INTRODUCTION -- 5.2. SOME ARRAY OPERATIONS IN FORTRAN -- 5.3. SOLUTION BY GAUSSIAN ELIMINATION -- 5.4. SOLUTION BY COMPACT ELIMINATION METHODS -- 5.5. COMMENTS -- 5.6. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6. ANALYSIS OF PLANE TRUSSES -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION -- 6.2. DISPLACEMENT ANALYSIS OF TRUSSES -- 6.3. AUTOMATING THE DISPLACEMENT METHOD -- 6.4. THE FRAME STIFFNESS MATRIX -- 6.5. COMMENTS -- 6.6. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7. ANALYSIS OF SPACE TRUSSES -- 7.1. INTRODUCTION -- 7.2. STIFFNESS EQUATION GENERATION -- 7.3. ALLOWANCE FOR INITIAL STRAINS -- 7.4. COMMENTS -- CHAPTER 8. ANALYSIS OF PLANE RIGID FRAMES (1) -- 8.1. INTRODUCTION -- 8.2. THE STATICS MATRIX -- 8.3. THE MEMBER FLEXIBILITY EQUATIONS -- 8.4. THE DEFORMATION COMPATIBILITY EQUATIONS -- 8.5. THE FRAME STIFFNESS EQUATIONS -- 8.6. COMMENTS -- CHAPTER 9. ANALYSIS OF PLANE RIGID FRAMES (2).

9.1. INTRODUCTION -- 9.2. ALLOWANCE FOR FINITE SHEAR STRAINS -- 9.3. ALLOWANCE FOR INTERNAL HINGES -- 9.4. ALLOWANCE FOR INITIAL STRAINS -- 9.5. ALLOWANCE FOR TRANSVERSE LOADING ON MEMBERS -- 9.6. COMMENTS -- CHAPTER 10. THE ANALYSIS OF SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS BEAMS -- 10.1. INTRODUCTION -- 10.2. STIFFNESS ANALYSIS -- 10.3. PLANE FRAME PROGRAM -- 10.4. BEAM PROGRAM -- 10.5. BEAM LOADING -- 10.6. INFLUENCE LINES -- 10.7. INFLUENCE COEFFICIENT PROGRAM -- 10.8. CONCLUSIONS -- 10.9. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11. ANALYSIS OF PLANE GRILLAGES -- 11.1. INTRODUCTION -- 11.2. THE BOW GIRDER -- 11.3. THE STATICS MATRIX -- 11.4. AUTOMATIC GRILLAGE ANALYSIS -- 11.5. COMMENTS -- CHAPTER 12. ANALYSIS OF RIGID SPACE FRAMES -- 12.1. INTRODUCTION -- 12.2. THE STRESS-RESULTANTS -- 12.3. THE MEMBER STIFFNESS EQUATIONS -- 12.4. THE STATICS MATRIX -- 12.5. THE GENERAL PROGRAM -- 12.6. COMMENTS -- 12.7. REFERENCE -- CHAPTER 13. ELASTIC-PLASTIC ANALYSIS OF PLANE FRAMES -- 13.1. INTRODUCTION -- 13.2. ELASTIC-PLASTIC ANALYSIS -- 13.3. AUTOMATIC ELASTIC-PLASTIC ANALYSIS -- 13.4. PROGRAMMING THE METHOD OF ELASTIC-PLASTIC ANALYSIS -- 13.5. COMMENTS -- 13.6. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14. ANALYSIS OF SUSPENSION CABLES -- 14.1. INTRODUCTION -- 14.2. THE CHAIN CALCULATION -- 14.3. IMPROVEMENT OF THE INITIAL VALUES -- 14.4. CABLE OF CONSTANT LENGTH -- 14.5. CABLE OF CONSTANT TENSION -- 14.6. COMMENTS -- 14.7. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 15. DESIGN OF SUSPENSION CABLES -- 15.1. INTRODUCTION -- 15.2. CABLE ANCHORAGE STIFFNESS -- 15.3. EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE CHANGES -- 15.4. CONSTANT SECTION CABLE DESIGN -- 15.5. CONSTANT STRENGTH CABLE DESIGN -- 15.6. COMMENTS -- 15.7. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 16. STATIC ANALYSIS OF UNGUYED TOWERS -- 16.1. INTRODUCTION -- 16.2. THE PROBLEM SPECIFICATION -- 16.3. THE NUMERICAL PROCEDURE -- 16.4. COMMENTS -- 16.5. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 17. ANALYSIS OF PLANE BEAM-COLUMNS.

17.1. INTRODUCTION -- 17.2. THE DISCRETE ELEMENT MODEL -- 17.3. NATURE OF THE COLUMN LOADING -- 17.4. COMMENTS -- 17.5. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 18. ANALYSIS OF ELASTICALLY SUPPORTED BEAMS -- 18.1. INTRODUCTION -- 18.2. DISCRETE ELEMENT REPRESENTATION -- 18.3. THE INITIAL VALUES -- 18.4. THE BOUNDARY ERRORS -- 18.5. THE NUMERICAL ITERATION PROCEDURE -- 18.6. COMMENTS -- 18.7. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 19. ANALYSIS OF PLANE RINGS AND ARCHES -- 19.1. INTRODUCTION -- 19.2. THE PROVING RING -- 19.3. THE UNIFORM CIRCULAR ARCH -- 19.4. THE UNIFORM PARABOLIC ARCH -- 19.5. THE SYMMETRICAL PORTAL FRAME -- 19.6. THE NON-UNIFORM ARCH -- 19.7. COMMENTS -- 19.8. REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 20. AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER GRAPHICS -- 20.1. INTRODUCTION -- 20.2. TERMINAL EQUIPMENT -- 20.3. PROGRAMMING FOR A GRAPHICS TERMINAL -- 20.4. COMMENTS -- 20.5. REFERENCES -- INDEX -- APPENDIX 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL COMPUTATION -- APPENDIX 2: SOME BEAM CALCULATIONS -- APPENDIX 3: COMPUTATION OF BENDING STRESSES -- APPENDIX 4: ECCENTRICALLY LOADED CONNECTIONS -- APPENDIX 5: SOLUTION OF SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS -- APPENDIX 6: ANALYSIS OF PLANE TRUSSES -- APPENDIX 7: LANALYSIS OF SPACE TRUSSES -- APPENDIX 8: ANALYSIS OF PLANE RIGID FRAMES (1) -- APPENDIX 9: ANALYSIS OF PLANE RIGID FRAMES (2) -- APPENDIX 10: ANALYSIS OF SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS BEAMS -- APPENDIX 11: ANALYSIS OF PLANE RIGID GRILLAGES -- APPENDIX 12: ANALYSIS OF RIGID SPACE FRAMES -- APPENDIX 13: ELASTIC-PLASTIC ANALYSIS OF PLANE FRAMES -- APPENDIX 14: ANALYSIS OF SUSPENSION CABLES -- APPENDIX 15: DESIGN OF SUSPENSION CABLES -- APPENDIX 16: STATIC ANALYSIS OF UNGUYED TOWERS -- APPENDIX 17: ANALYSIS OF PLANE BEAM-COLUMNS -- APPENDIX 18: ANALYSIS OF ELASTICALLY SUPPORTED BEAMS -- APPENDIX 19: ANALYSIS OF PLANE RINGS AND ARCHES.

This book is designed to give the structural engineer training in microcomputer technology, starting with theory and computer methods in Part 1 and culminating in extensive listings of programs in both Fortran 77 and Basic in Part 2. Because it provides programs and the information to understand and modify them for specific purposes, it can be used as a text for graduate engineering students or by the professional engineer interested in learning how computers can be applied to practical problems. Data files and worked solutions are included. Some forty programs are explained ranging from cross-sectional and connection analysis, through equation solution methods to linear elastic analysis of plane and space frames, as well as describing the non-linear and large deformation treatment of a variety of frame, cable and arch structures. This new edition extensively revises the chapter on beam analysis, with more powerful theory and programs suitable to the microcomputers of today.

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