Structural Analysis A Unified Classical and Matrix Approach

The fifth edition of this comprehensive textbook combines and develops concurrently, both classical and matrix-based methods of structural analysis.
A new introductory chapter on structural analysis modelling has been added. The suitability of modelling structures as beams, plane or space frames and trusses, plane grids or assemblages of finite elements is discussed in this chapter, along with idealisation of loads, anticipated deformations, sketching deflected shapes, and bending moment diagrams. With new solved examples and problems added, the book now has over 100 worked examples and more than 350 problems with answers. A new companion website contains computer programs that can serve as optional aids in studying and in engineering practice: www.sponpress.com/civeng/support.htm.
Structural Analysis: A Unified Classical and Matrix Approach, translated into six languages, is a textbook of great international renown, and is recommended by many civil and structural engineering lecturers to their students due to its clear and thorough style and content

1. Structural Analysis Modelling. 2. Statically Determinate Structures. 3. Introduction to the Analysis of Statically Indeterminate Structures. 4. Force Method of Analysis. 5. Displacement Method of Analysis. 6. Use of Force and Displacement Methods. 7. Strain Energy and Virtual Work. 8. Determination of Displacements by Virtual Work. 9. Important Energy Theorems. 10. Displacement of Elastic Structures by Special Methods. 11. Application of Force and Displacement Methods. 12. Influence Lines for Beams and Frames. 13. Influence Lines for Grids, Arches, and Trusses. 14. Effects of Axial Forces on Flexural Stiffness. 15. Analysis of Shear-wall Structures. 16. Method of Finite Differences. 17. Finite-element Method. 18. Further Development of Finite-element Method. 19. Plastic Analysis of Continuous Beams and Frames. 20. Yield-line and Strip Methods for Slabs. 21. Structural Dynamics. 22. Computer Analysis of Framed Structures. 23. Implementation of Computer Analysis. 24. Nonlinear Analysis. Appendices.