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Stability of structures : principles and applications / Chai H. Yoo, Sung C. Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yoo, Chai Hong.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Structural stability.
- Safety factor in engineering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (537 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Burlington, Mass. ; Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The current trend of building more streamlined structures has made stability analysis a subject of extreme importance. It is mostly a safety issue because Stability loss could result in an unimaginable catastrophe. Written by two authors with a combined 80 years of professional and academic experience, the objective of Stability of Structures: Principles and Applications is to provide engineers and architects with a firm grasp of the fundamentals and principles that are essential to performing effective stability analysts"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Preface XI 1. Buckling of Columns 2. Special Topics in Elastic Stability of Columns 3. Beam-Columns 4. Continuous Beams and Rigid Frames 5. Torsion in Structures 6. Torsional and Flexural-Torsional Buckling 7. Lateral-Torsional Buckling 8. Buckling of Plate Elements 9. Buckling of Thin Cylindrical Shell Elements 10. Buckling of General Shell Elements Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-11873-4
- 9786613118738
- 0-12-385123-8
- OCLC:
- 727648972
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