Overview
- Adds a new chapter on limit analysis;
- Emphasizes problem-based understanding of structural behavior;
- Organizes chapters by structural types;
- Provides balanced, seamless treatment of both classic and contemporary computer-based analysis methods, covering both elastic and inelastic behavior;
- Reinforces student understanding with extensive, updated sample problems and detailed solutions to problems of structural analysis;
- Cultivates intuitive thinking about structural behavior;
- Incorporates input data operable with numerous widely used engineering design software packages.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Statically Determinate Structures
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Statically Indeterminate Structures
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Practice of Structural Engineering
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About this book
The book fosters an intuitive understanding of structural behavior based on problem solving experience for students of civil engineering and architecture who have been exposed to the basic concepts of engineering mechanics and mechanics of materials. Distinct from other undergraduate textbooks, the authors of Fundamentals of Structural Engineering, 2/e embrace the notion that engineers reason about behavior using simple models and intuition they acquire through problem solving. The perspective adopted in this text therefore develops this type of intuition by presenting extensive, realistic problems and case studies together with computer simulation, allowing for rapid exploration of how a structure responds to changes in geometry and physical parameters. The integrated approach employed in Fundamentals of Structural Engineering, 2/e make it an ideal instructional resource for students and a comprehensive, authoritative reference for practitioners of civil and structural engineering.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Susan Faraji has been Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell since 1984. Dr. Faraji has close to three decades of teaching, research, publication, and consulting experience and has taught a wide range of courses at the undergraduateand at the graduate level, such as Concrete Design, Steel Design, Bridge Design, Seismic Design, Concrete Design, Finite Elements, Structural Dynamics, and Behavior of Structures. Her professional work involves the analysis, design (using the latest design codes), and computer modeling of a wide range of structures. She has worked on more than 30 bridges and on aircraft, elevators, pontoons, ramps, concrete parking garages, domes, culverts, retaining walls, and steel and concrete frame buildings.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamentals of Structural Engineering
Authors: Jerome J. Connor, Susan Faraji
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24331-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24329-0Published: 02 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79603-1Published: 07 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24331-3Published: 10 February 2016
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXVII, 1050
Number of Illustrations: 754 b/w illustrations, 146 illustrations in colour
Topics: Solid Mechanics, Light Construction, Steel Construction, Timber Construction, Building Construction and Design, Solid Construction, Structural Materials