Advanced Methods of Structural Analysis
Advanced Methods of Structural Analysis aims to help its readers navigate through the vast field of structural analysis. The book aims to help its readers master the numerous methods used in structural analysis by focusing on the principal concepts, as we
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Igor A. Karnovsky
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Olga Lebed
Advanced Methods of Structural Analysis
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Igor A. Karnovsky 811 Northview Pl. Coquitlam BC V3J 3R4 Canada
Olga Lebed Condor Rebar Consultants, Inc. 300-1128 Hornby St. Vancouver BC V6Z 2L4 Canada
ISBN 978-1-4419-1046-2 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1047-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1047-9 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009936795 c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Dedicated to Tamara L’vovna Gorodetsky
Preface
Theory of the engineering structures is a fundamental science. Statements and methods of this science are widely used in different fields of engineering. Among them are the civil engineering, ship-building, aircraft, robotics, space structures, as well as numerous structures of special types and purposes – bridges, towers, etc. In recent years, even micromechanical devices become objects of structural analysis. Theory of the engineering structures is alive and is a very vigorous science. This theory offers an engineer-designer a vast collection of classical methods of analysis of various types of structures. These methods contain in-depth fundamental ideas and, at the present time, they are developed with sufficient completeness and commonness, aligned in a well-composed system of conceptions, procedures, and algorithms, use modern mathematical techniques and are brought to elegant simplicity and perfection. We now live in a computerized world. A role and influence of modern engineering software for analysis of structures cannot be overestimated. The modern computer programs allow providing different types of analysis for any sophisticated structure. As this takes place, what is the role of classical theory of structures with its in-depth ideas, prominent conceptions, methods, theorems, and principles? Knowing classical methods of Structural Analysis is necessary for any practical engineer. An engineer cannot rely only on the results provided by a computer. Computer is a great help in modeling different situations and speeding up the process of calculations, but it is the sole responsibility of an engineer to check the results obtained by a computer. If users of computer engineering software do not have suf