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Structural Analysis

With Applications to Aerospace Structures

  • A unified treatment of the various topics
  • Exhaustive coverage with unified approach
  • Extensive selection of problems with computer applications

Part of the book series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications (SMIA, volume 163)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Basic tools and concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Basic equations of linear elasticity

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 3-51
    3. Constitutive behavior of materials

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 53-99
    4. Linear elasticity solutions

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 101-135
    5. Engineering structural analysis

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 137-170
  3. Beams and thin-wall structures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
    2. Euler-Bernoulli beam theory

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 173-221
    3. Three-dimensional beam theory

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 223-259
    4. Torsion

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 261-295
    5. Thin-walled beams

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 297-391
  4. Energy and variational methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 393-393
    2. Virtual work principles

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 395-491
    3. Energy methods

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 493-581
    4. Variational and approximate solutions

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 583-671
    5. Variational and energy principles

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 673-717
  5. Advanced topics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 719-719
    2. Introduction to plasticity and thermal stresses

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 721-762
    3. Buckling of beams

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 763-792
    4. Shearing deformations in beams

      • O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig
      Pages 793-817

About this book

The authors and their colleagues developed this text over many years, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in structural analysis courses at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The emphasis is on clarity and unity in the presentation of basic structural analysis concepts and methods. The equations of linear elasticity and basic constitutive behaviour of isotropic and composite materials are reviewed. The text focuses on the analysis of practical structural components including bars, beams and plates. Particular attention is devoted to the analysis of thin-walled beams under bending shearing and torsion. Advanced topics such as warping, non-uniform torsion, shear deformations, thermal effect and plastic deformations are addressed. A unified treatment of work and energy principles is provided that naturally leads to an examination of approximate analysis methods including an introduction to matrix and finite element methods.

This teaching tool based on practical situations and thorough methodology should prove valuable to both lecturers and students of structural analysis in engineering worldwide.

This is a textbook for teaching structural analysis of aerospace structures. It can be used for 3rd and 4th year students in aerospace engineering, as well as for 1st and 2nd year graduate students in aerospace and mechanical engineering.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“This textbook is based on courses given by both authors at Georgia, Tech and is aimed directly at the early years undergraduates. It succeeds admirably in meeting the students’ needs by including a plethora of set problems and worked examples. … Moreover the way is then open in later years to general weighted residual formulations and applications to nonlinear and non-self-adjoint problems which are powerful tools in modern numerical codes.” (G. A. O. Davies, Aeronautical Journal, March, 2011)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    O. A. Bauchau, J. I. Craig

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 84.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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