Structural Analysis: A Historical Approach

by Jacques Heyman

• ISBN13: 9780521622493
• ISBN10: 0521622492
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume provides a concise, historical review of the methods of structural analysis and design--from Galileo in the seventeenth century, to the present day. Through it, students in structural engineering and professional engineers will gain a deeper understanding of the theory behind the modern software packages they use daily in structural design. This book also offers the reader a lucid examination of the process of structural analysis and how it relates to modern design. The first three chapters cover questions about the strength of materials, and how to calculate local effects. An account is then given of the development of the equations of elastic flexure and buckling, followed by a separate chapter on masonry arches. Three chapters on the overall behavior of elastic structures lead to a discussion of plastic behavior, and a final chapter indicates that there are still problems needing solution.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
1 Galileo's Problem	1	(12)
1.1 The Dialogues	3	(10)
2 The Moment of Resistance	13	(30)
2.1 Mariotte 1686	14	(4)
2.2 Leibniz and James Bernoulli	18	(1)
2.3 Parent 1713	19	(2)
2.4 Bélidor 1729	21	(2)
2.5 Coulomb 1773	23	(3)
2.6 The early nineteenth century	26	(3)
2.7 Navier 1826 and Saint-Venant 1864	29	(5)
2.8 The full plastic moment	34	(2)
2.9 Axial load	36	(3)
2.10 Plastic bending about two axes	39	(4)
3 The Effect of Shear	43	(15)
3.1 Navier 1826, 1833	43	(2)
3.2 Saint-Venant 1855, 1856, 1864	45	(4)
3.3 Thin-walled sections	49	(1)
3.4 Plastic solutions	49	(9)
4 Elastic Flexure and Buckling	58	(20)
4.1 James and Daniel Bernoulli	59	(2)
4.2 Euler and the elastica	61	(2)
4.3 Buckling of columns: the nineteenth century	63	(3)
4.4 Perry-Robertson	66	(2)
4.5 Lateral-torsional buckling	68	(5)
4.6 Horne 1954	73	(5)
5 The Masonry Arch	78	(17)
5.1 Robert Hooke 1675	79	(1)
5.2 La Hire 1695, 1712	80	(3)
5.3 Couplet 1729, 1730	83	(3)
5.4 The dome of St Peter's	86	(2)
5.5 Coulomb 1773	88	(5)
5.6 The plastic theorems	93	(2)
6 Elastic Beams and Frames	95	(16)
6.1 Girard 1798	95	(2)
6.2 Navier 1826	97	(2)
6.3 Slope-deflexion equations	99	(2)
6.4 Hardy Cross 1930	101	(4)
6.5 Reciprocal theorems	105	(3)
6.6 Indirect model tests	108	(2)
6.7 General structural theory	110	(1)
7 The Trussed Framework	111	(10)
7.1 Navier	111	(2)
7.2 Maxwell 1864	113	(3)
7.3 Virtual work	116	(2)
7.4 Energy methods	118	(3)
8 Scholium 1	121	(6)
8.1 Secondary stresses	122	(3)
8.2 Nineteenth-century experiments	125	(2)
9 Plastic Theory	127	(27)
9.1 Kazinczy	127	(1)
9.2 The 1936 Berlin Congress	128	(1)
9.3 Maier-Leibnitz	129	(2)
9.4 F. Bleich	131	(2)
9.5 Melan	133	(2)
9.6 J.F. Baker	135	(4)
9.7 Gvozdev 1936	139	(2)
9.8 Proofs of the plastic theorems	141	(4)
9.9 Methods of calculation	145	(3)
9.10 Shakedown and incremental collapse	148	(4)
9.11 Coda	152	(2)
10 Scholium 2	154	(9)
10.1 Hambly's paradox	154	(1)
10.2 The elastic design process	155	(1)
10.3 Simple plastic design	156	(2)
10.4 Design with unstable elements	158	(2)
10.5 Conclusion	160	(3)
Bibliography	163	(8)
Name Index	171	(2)
Subject Index	173