Dynamic analysis of skeletal structures : force and displacement methods and iterative techniques /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaveti, Seetharamalu (Author)
Corporate Author: McGraw-Hill Companies
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Series:McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • C. Introduction
  • Part a
  • Part b
  • D. Acknowledgments
  • A. Part a
  • 1. General concepts and energy principles
  • Skeletal structures
  • Surface structures
  • Solid bodies
  • Stress resultants and deformations at joints of skeletal structures
  • Superposition and non-linearity
  • Energy principles
  • Total strain energy for skeletal members
  • 2. Force method
  • Generalized force method
  • Kinematic approach for determining indeterminacy
  • Plane grids-transversely loaded, degree of indeterminacy
  • Unstable frames, rank of equations of equilibrium
  • Basic steps of analysis by force method
  • Flexural deformations
  • Indicial notation
  • Virtual work method
  • Deformations and influence lines
  • Continuous beam on flexible supports
  • Frames
  • Parabolic arch ? non-prismatic
  • Geometric loading?temperature stresses in indeterminate structures
  • Choice of release system and flexibility analysis
  • Grid analysis
  • 3. Plastic analysis
  • Pseudo non-linear analysis, uniqueness theorem, and stiffening
  • Elastic-plastic analysis and "hinge release" system
  • Mechanism at collapse
  • Partial collapse
  • Elastic and rigid plastic analysis, collapse load
  • Basic mechanisms
  • Combined mechanisms
  • Virtual stiffening
  • Full load analysis and 'last plastic hinges' before collapse
  • Revision example of chapter 2 and 3
  • 4. Matrix approach for force method
  • General
  • Joints and structural nodes
  • The basic steps
  • Continuous beams on rigid and flexible supports
  • Pontoon bridges
  • Temperature effects and lack of fit
  • Rigid cum hinged structures
  • Grids and beams curved in plan (bow girders)
  • Space frames
  • Unified force method?statics and energy principles
  • Application of force method to bridge decks
  • 5. Approximate methods of analysis of tall building frames
  • Scope
  • Approximate method for frames under vertical loads
  • Approximate methods for frames under lateral loads
  • Lateral deflections
  • B. Part b
  • 6. Displacement method
  • General
  • Deflected shapes
  • Displaced shape of unstable structures
  • Two approaches of displacement method
  • Summary: ?member code? and ?joint code
  • Force-deformation relation in system coordinates
  • Transformation matrices, assembly for plane frame
  • Revision, member and system axes
  • Consolidation of theory
  • Mixed method
  • Direct stiffness method?more cases
  • Grid illustrations
  • Direct stiffness method for space frame
  • Observations: use of shape functions
  • Nonprismatic straight skeletal members
  • 7. Displacement method-illustrations
  • Comparison of force and displacement methods
  • Computerization-logistics
  • Connection matrix approach for rigid jointed frames
  • Matrix condensation
  • Gable frame by 'slope-deflection approach'
  • Direct stiffness method
  • Condensation of global stiffness of gable frame
  • Non-linearity due to large displacements
  • Reiteration of inextensibility and free bodies
  • Generalization
  • Miscellaneous structures
  • Box frame
  • The bottom member is supported by a soil bed: stiffness matrix of foundation beam
  • Single bay two storey frame
  • Analysis of 'a-frame'
  • Plane and space trusses, and 'mero' space truss system
  • 8. Iterative techniques
  • Iterative techniques?displacement method
  • Prediction and correction?conceptualization
  • General considerations of the methods, inextensibility and rapid convergence
  • Mathematical iterative methods
  • Rotation and sway of frames
  • Analysis of gable frame using elimination and back substation
  • Solution of gable frame by moment distribution
  • Moment distribution applied to continuous beams
  • Elimination and back substitution applied to beams
  • Kani's technique
  • Extension of kani's algorithm to continuous beam with spring support
  • Analysis of the frame two storey?single bay by kani's method
  • Tall frames with sway
  • Concluding remarks
  • Extension of kani's method: axial deformations of column members
  • 9. Introduction to applied dynamics and design of tall buildings
  • General introduction to tall buildings?types
  • Basics of dynamic analysis
  • Earthquake loads and response
  • Dynamic characteristics
  • Response to dynamic loading
  • Frame building as a multi-degree freedom system
  • Frame building
  • Analysis of single plane frame?cwk model
  • Three dimensional frame building?wn model
  • Shear wall and storey stiffness of tall building system
  • General case of storey stiffness: shear wall cum frame
  • Sifting of ?-macrx from ? and dynamic analysis
  • Alternative approach by flexibility matrix, f
  • Flexibility matrix, f-eigen values and mode shapes
  • Miscellaneous aspects of dynamics
  • Housner's average spectra and earthquake codal loads
  • Approximate methods?eigen values and mode shapes
  • Monitoring of tall buldings?fft analyzer
  • Maintenance of tall buildings
  • Instrumentation for monitoring of tall buildings
  • Some features of tall buildings
  • C. Appendix: mathematical preliminaries
  • Matrices
  • Singular matrix and rank of a matrix
  • Fundamental theorem: rank of matrices
  • Minor, cofactor and adjoint of matrices
  • Eigen values of a square matrix
  • Real symmetric matrix
  • Inversion of matrices and solution of simultaneous equations.