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Preface to First Edition
xi
Preface to Second Edition
xiii
CHAPTER
1
Introduction
1
1.1
Function of a structure
1
1.2
Loads
2
1.3
Structural systems
2
1.4
Support systems
8
1.5
Statically determinate and indeterminate structures
10
1.6
Analysis and design
11
1.7
Structural and load idealization
12
1.8
Structural elements
14
1.9 Materials of construction
15
1.10 The use of computers
19
CHAPTER
2
Principles of Statics
20
2.1
Force
20
2.2 Moment of a force
28
2.3
The resultant of a system of parallel forces
31
2.4
Equilibrium of force systems
33
2.5
Calculation of support reactions
34
CHAPTER
3
Normal Force, Shear Force, Bending Moment and Torsion
42
3.1
Types of load
42
3.2
Notation and sign convention
46
3.3
Normal force
47
3.4
Shear force and bending moment
51
3.5
Load, shear force and bending moment relationships
63
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3.6
Torsion
70
3.7
Principle of superposition
73
CHAPTER
4
Analysis of Pin-jointed Trusses
81
4.1
Types of truss
81
4.2
Assumptions in truss analysis
82
4.3
Idealization of a truss
84
4.4
Statical determinacy
85
4.5
Resistance of a truss to shear force and bending moment
88
4.6 Method of joints
91
4.7 Method of sections
95
4.8 Method of tension coefficients
97
4.9 Graphical method of solution
100
4.10 Compound trusses
103
4.11 Space trusses
104
4.12 A computer-based approach
108
CHAPTER
5
Cables
114
5.1
Lightweight cables carrying concentrated loads
114
5.2 Heavy cables
119
CHAPTER
6
Arches
133
6.1
The linear arch
133
6.2
The three-pinned arch
136
6.3
A three-pinned parabolic arch carrying a uniform horizontally
distributed load
142
6.4
Bending moment diagram for a three-pinned arch
143
CHAPTER
7
Stress and Strain
150
7.1 Direct stress in tension and compression
150
7.2
Shear stress in shear and torsion
153
7.3
Complementary shear stress
154
7.4 Direct strain
155
7.5
Shear strain
155
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Volumetric strain due to hydrostatic pressure
156
7.7
Stress–strain relati