Stability of Structures: Elastic, Inelastic, Fracture and Damage Theories

Stability of Structures: Elastic, Inelastic, Fracture and Damage Theories 

Zdenek P Bazant

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Failures of many engineering structures fall into one of two simple categories: (1) material failure and (2) structural instability. The first type of failure, treated in introductory courses on the strength of materials and structural mechanics, can usually be adequately predicted by analyzing the structure on the basis of equilibrium conditions or equations of motion that are written for the initial, undeformed configuration of the structure. By contrast, the prediction of failures due to structural instability requires equations of equilibrium or motion to be formulated on the basis of the deformed configuration of the structure. Since the deformed configuration is not known in advance but depends on the deflections to be solved, the problem is in principle nonlinear, although frequently it can be linearized in order to facilitate analysis.




Content :
  • Buckling of Elastic Columns by Equilibrium Analysis
  • Buckling of Elastic Frames by Equilibrium Analysis
  • Dynamic Analysis of Stability
  • Energy Methods
  • Energy Analysis of Continuous Structures and Approximate Methods
  • Thin-WaDed Beams
  • Plates and SheDs
  • Elastoplastic Buckling
  • Creep Budding
  • Stability of Inelastic Structures, Bifurcation and 'Thermodynamic Bub
  • Three-Dimensional Continuum Instabilities and Effects of Finite Strain Tensor


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