New approaches to structural mechanics, shells, and biological structures / edited by H.R. Drew and S. Pellegrino.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drew, Horace R.

Pellegrino, S. (Sergio)

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Solid mechanics and its applications ; v. 104.

Solid mechanics and its applications ; v. 104

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Structural analysis (Engineering).

Physical Description:

ix, 526 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2002]

Contents:

Calladine's Contribution

Some Thoughts on Research / C.R. Calladine 1

Publications / C.R. Calladine 11

Structural Mechanics

Collapse Behavior of Expandable Slotted Tubes / F. Abbassian, S. Willson, A.J.L. Crook 23

Laws of Evolution of Cracks in Plates in Terms of Stress Resultants / G. Augusti, P.M. Mariano, F.L. Stazi 43

Nesting Surfaces and Constitutive Laws for the Inelastic Behaviour of Composite Materials / A.C.F. Cocks 57

On the Rotation Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Structural Elements / M. Como 67

The Topology of Cellular Structures / N.A. Fleck, M.F. Ashby, V.S. Deshpande 81

Symmetry Analysis of the Double Banana and Related Indeterminate Structures / P.W. Fowler, S.D. Guest 91

Large Deflections of a Cantilever / J.A. Greenwood 101

Rose Windows / J. Heyman 115

Joining of Metal Matrix Composites / F.A. Leckie 127

Utilising Tension in Lightweight Structures / I. Liddell 139

Elastic Minimum-Weight Design: an Encounter with Alan Turing / R.K. Livesley 155

Engineering and Education / P.G. Lowe 165

Prediction of Buckling Load from Vibration Measurements / P. Mandal 175

Non-Collinearly Loaded Laminae / M.N. Pavlovic, N. Tahan, M.D. Kotsovos 189

Linear Matching Methods for Shakedown Analysis / A.R.S. Ponter, H. Chen 203

Analysis of Coiled Piezoelectric Structures / K.A. Seffen 215

Frictional Impact in Mechanisms / W.J. Stronge 229

Rigidity and Stability of Prestressed Infinitesimal Mechanisms / T. Tarnai, J. Szabo 245

Amplitude of Wrinkles in Thin Membranes / Y.W. Wong, S. Pellegrino 257

Shell Structures

On a High-Fidelity Hierarchical Approach to Buckling Load Calculations / J. Arbocz, J.H. Starnes 271

Cat Eardrum Response Mechanics / J.P. Fay, S. Puria, C.R. Steele 293

Inversion of Metal Cylinders / J.J. Harrigan, S.R. Reid 303

Failure Criteria for Shells on Local Brackets / J.M.F.G. Holst, J.M. Rotter, M. Gillie, M. Munch 315

PCCP Shells / K. Miura 329

Pogorelov's Theory of Creases, and Point Loads on Thin Cylindrical Shells / A. Palmer 341

Shell Buckling and Collapse Analysis for Structural Design / J.M. Rotter 355

Bifurcation Buckling of Spherical Sandwich Shells under External Pressure in Plastic Range / S.C. Shrivastava 379

The Prerequisites for an Advanced Design Methodology in Shells Prone to Buckling / J. Singer, H. Abramovich, T. Weller 393

Biological Structures

Chris Calladine and Biological Structures: A Personal Account / A. Klug 413

Calladine's Entry to the World of DNA / H.R. Drew 421

Morphological and Topological Transformation of Liposomes / H. Hotani, F. Nomura, S. Takeda, T. Inaba, K. Takiguchi, T.J. Itoh, A. Ishijima 435

Computational Approaches to Predicting Sequence-Structure Relationships in DNA / C.A. Hunter, M.J. Packer 447

Understanding Biological Machines Using Household Items: Some Insightful Constructions from the Calladine Workshop / B.F. Luisi 457

Measurement of DNA Bend Angles Using DNA Topology / L.C. Lutter, V. Tchernaenko, M. Radlinska, C.E. Drabik, J. Bujnicki, H.R. Halvorson 475

Structural Insight into the Mechanism of Supercoiling of the Bacterial Flagellar Filament / K. Namba 485

Coils and Supercoils in Proteins / M. Stewart, A.D. McLachlan 499

Supercoiling of DNA Molecules / J.M.T. Thompson 513.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1402008627

OCLC:

50410522