Seeing and Touching Structural Concepts

by Ji; Tianjian

• ISBN13: 9780415397735
• ISBN10: 0415397731
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-25
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

The pioneering website www.structuralconcepts.org, by Tianjian Ji and Adrian Bell, goes back to basics and explains in detail the basic principles of structural concepts and how they relate to the real world. Following on from and expanding upon the website, comes this book. Essential for the civil engineering student, it examines the concepts in closer detail with formulae and technical terminology, while remaining grounded in the website's practical approach. With hundreds of photographs and diagrams, you are encouraged to visualize each concept in turn and to understand how it applies to every day life. However much you may come to rely on software packages to do a lot of the technical calculation, it will always be vital to understand what does and doesn't work and why. With its recipe format and straight-forward explanations, this will be your companion through your engineering degree and early years of practice.

Table of Contents

Preface

Statics

Equilibrium

Centre of Mass

Effect of Different Cross Sections

Bending

Shear and Torsion

Stress Distribution

Span and Deflection

Direct Force Paths

Smaller Internal Forces

Buckling

Prestress

Horizontal Movements of Frame Structures Induced by Vertical Loads Dynamics

Energy Exchange

Pendulum

Free Vibration

Resonance

Damping in Structures

Vibration Reduction

Human Body models in Structural Vibration

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