Research Catalog

Title

Mechanics of structures : variational and computational methods / Walter D. Pilkey, Walter Wunderlich.

Author

Pilkey, Walter D.

Publication

Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©1994.

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Additional Authors

Wunderlich, W. (Walter), 1931-

Description

xvi, 855 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

Intended for professionals in civil, mechanical and aerospace engineering, this book presents a unified approach to the variational and computational mechanics of solids and structures.

Subject

• Strength of materials
• Mechanics, Applied
• Engineering mathematics
• strength of materials
• Baustatik
• Numerische Mathematik
• Structural engineering > Mathematical models
• Structural analysis (Engineering) > Mathematical models
• Constructions, Théorie des

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Basic Equations: Differential Form -- 2. Principles of Virtual Work: Integral Form of the Basic Equations -- 3. Related Variational and Energy Principles -- 4. Structural Analysis Methods I: Beam Elements -- 5. Structural Analysis Methods II: Structural Systems -- 6. The Finite Element Method -- 7. Direct Variational and Weighted Residual Methods: Classical Trial Function Methods -- 8. The Finite Difference Method -- 9. The Boundary Element Method -- 10. Dynamic Responses -- 11. Stability Analysis -- 12. Beams -- 13. Plates -- App. I: Some Fundamentals of Variational Calculus -- App. II: Integral Theorems -- App. III: Solution of Linear Equations and Eigenvalue Problems -- Indices -- Biographical Index -- Subject Index.

ISBN

• 0849344352
• 9780849344350

LCCN

92022131

OCLC

• ocm26128175
• 26128175
• SCSB-9171669

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library