ABSTRACT

The pioneering website www.structuralconcepts.org, by Tianjian Ji and Adrian Bell, goes back to basics and explains in detail the basic principles of structural concepts and how they relate to the real world.

Following on from and expanding upon the website, comes this book. Essential for the civil engineering student, it examines the concepts in closer detail with formulae and technical terminology, while remaining grounded in the website's practical approach. With hundreds of photographs and diagrams, you are encouraged to visualize each concept in turn and to understand how it applies to every day life.

part |2 pages

Part I Statics

chapter 1|10 pages

Equilibrium

chapter 2|15 pages

Centre of mass

chapter 3|10 pages

Effect of different cross-sections

chapter 4|9 pages

Bending

chapter 5|14 pages

Shear and torsion

chapter 6|6 pages

Stress distribution

chapter 7|10 pages

Span and deflection

chapter 8|19 pages

Direct force paths

chapter 9|17 pages

Smaller internal forces

chapter 10|14 pages

Buckling

chapter 11|12 pages

Prestress

part |2 pages

Part II Dynamics

chapter 13|11 pages

Energy exchange

chapter 14|15 pages

Pendulums

chapter 15|25 pages

Free vibration

chapter 16|21 pages

Resonance

chapter 17|10 pages

Damping in structures

chapter 18|11 pages

Vibration reduction

chapter 19|14 pages

Human body models in structural vibration