Structural Mechanics Fundamentals

Alberto Carpinteri author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:20th Sep '13

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Structural Mechanics Fundamentals gives you a complete and uniform treatment of the most fundamental and essential topics in structural mechanics. Presenting a traditional subject in an updated and modernized way, it merges classical topics with ones that have taken shape in more recent times, such as duality. This book is extensively based on the introductory chapters to the author’s Structural Mechanics: A Unified Approach.

Coverage includes:

  • The basic topics of geometry of areas and of kinematics and statics of rigid body systems
  • The mechanics of linear elastic solids—beams, plates, and three-dimensional solids—examined using a matrix approach
  • The analysis of strain and stress around a material point
  • The linear elastic constitutive law, with related Clapeyron’s and Betti’s theorems
  • Kinematic, static, and constitutive equations
  • The implication of the principle of virtual work
  • The Saint Venant problem
  • The theory of beam systems—statically determinate or indeterminate
  • Methods of forces and energy for the examination of indeterminate beam systems

The book draws on the author’s many years of teaching experience and features a wealth of illustrations and worked examples to help explain the topics clearly yet rigorously. The book can be used as a text for senior undergraduate or graduate students in structural engineering or architecture and as a valuable reference for researchers and practicing engineers.

"It is a book useful for advanced-level students, unifying the contents usually one could find in separate textbooks of statics, strength of materials, and engineering mechanics. The book covers the whole spectrum from kinematics and statics of rigid systems to energy methods and failure phenomena. ... It is a very good complementary advanced textbook."

—Dr. Michael Sakellariou, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece

"The approach is undoubtedly suitable to undergraduate students who deal with structural problems for the first time: the text is clear and even the most complex subjects are treated in a relatively simple way, easily approachable by common students of structural engineering and even architecture. ... It is one of the most complete and comprehensive books on the fundamentals of structural mechanics."

—Professor Claudio Alessandri, University of Ferrara, Italy

"This book builds on the strong and traditional approach to the strength of materials and mechanics of solids of the Italian school of structural mechanics, to give a complete and up-to-date treatment of classical statics of structures."

—Maurizio Angelillo, University of Salerno, Italy


"It is a book useful for advanced-level students, unifying the contents usually one could find in separate textbooks of statics, strength of materials, and engineering mechanics. The book covers the whole spectrum from kinematics and statics of rigid systems to energy methods and failure phenomena. ... It is a very good complementary advanced textbook."—Dr. Michael Sakellariou, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece

"The approach is undoubtedly suitable to undergraduate students who deal with structural problems for the first time: the text is clear and even the most complex subjects are treated in a relatively simple way, easily approachable by common students of structural engineering and even architecture. ... It is one of the most complete and comprehensive books on the fundamentals of structural mechanics."—Professor Claudio Alessandri, University of Ferrara, Italy

"This book builds on the strong and traditional approach to the strength of materials and mechanics of solids of the Italian school of structural mechanics, to give a complete and up-to-date treatment of classical statics of structures."—Maurizio Angelillo, University of Salerno, Italy

ISBN: 9780415580328

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 950g

512 pages