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ABOUT THE BOOK
Plates` are considered to be any essentially flat, two-dimensional structural component such as a floor slab, a flat roof, the steel plates on a ship or aircraft or any flat support or connection to other structural elements such as columns, beams, walls and so on. The `Analysis` of a plate entails studying how the combined effects of various forces and weights (Loads) affect the overall behavior and performance of a particular kind of plate of specific dimensions, materials, strengths and geometric configuration. Those forces and loads, in turn, are usually divided be-tween fixed, constant forces (static) and moving or continuously changing forces (dynamic). In analyzing any such forces a variety of mathematical tools have been developed, as well as a variety of engineering laboratory testing techniques.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Principal Notations and Graphical Symbols
Units
Introduction
Historical Background
Plate Theories and Analytical Solutions of Static, Linear-Elastic Plate Problems
Elastic Plate Theories and Their Governing Differential Equations
Exact and Series Solutions of the Governing Differential Equations
Further Plate Problems and Their Classical Solutions
Energy Methods for Solution of Lateral Deflections
Numerical Methods for Solutions of Static, Linear-Elastic Plate Problems
Finite Differences Methods
Gridwork and Framework Methods
The Finite Element Method
Classical Finite Strip Method
The Boundary Element Method
Advanced Topics
Linear Considerations
Nonlinear Aspects
Engineering Solution Procedures
Practical Design Methods
Yield-Line Method
Dynamic Analysis of Elastic Plates
Classical and Energy Methods in Dynamic Analysis
Numerical Methods in Plate Dynamics
Buckling of Plates
Fundamentals of Stability Analysis
Appendix
ABOUT THE AUTHER
Rudolph Szilard is Emeritus Professor of Structural Mechanics at the University of Hawaii and retired chairman of the Structural Mechanics Department at the University of Dortmund, Germany. His long and illustrious career in both academia and in the professional practice of engineering includes serving as a senior structural engineer with the noted firm of Ammann and Whitney, as well as authoring numerous scientific papers and eight books on structural mechanics. Dr. Szilard was the recipient of a `Senior Fellowship Award` by the A. von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
ISBN - 9788126545865
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