Overview
- Presents a classical subject in a modern setting
- Offers two approaches: the force (flexibility) method and the displacement (stiffness) method
- Conveys the basic ideas, while avoiding lengthy calculations
- Includes illustrated examples complemented by insights into the solutions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Preliminaries
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The Structures
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Flexibility
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Stiffness
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
The author has taught basic and advanced undergraduate courses in structural analysis and aircraft analysis and design, as well as graduate courses in finite-element analysis and structural optimization. He has also taught structures courses to architectural students at the Faculty of Architecture at the Technion and at the School of Architecture of Tel Aviv University. He has been a visiting assistant professor at the School of Engineering at UCLA, a visiting scholar at the Engineering Department of Cambridge University and a visiting professor at the Joseph Fourier Université de Grenoble.
He was a founding member of the ISSMO (International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization) and has been a regular contributor to its conferences and meetings. His research field is the design of optimal structures, in which he has published over 50 papers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Structures and Their Analysis
Authors: Maurice Bernard Fuchs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31081-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31079-4Published: 17 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80958-8Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31081-7Published: 09 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 404
Number of Illustrations: 300 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Solid Mechanics