Author(s)/Editor(s): Andrzej S. Nowak and Kevin R. Collins | Size: 5.8 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Original preprint | Publisher: CRC | Year: 2013 | pages: 403 | ISBN: 978-0-203-80914-3
Reliability of Structures enables both students and practising engineers to appreciate how to value and handle reliability as an important dimension of structural design. It discusses the concepts of limit states and limit state functions, and presents methodologies for calculating reliability indices and calibrating partial safety factors. It also supplies information on the probability distributions and parameters used to characterize both applied loads and member resistances.
This revised and extended second edition contains more discussions of US and international codes and the issues underlying their development. There is significant revision and expansion of the discussion on Monte Carlo simulation, along with more examples.
The book serves as a textbook for a one-semester course for advanced undergraduates or graduate students, or as a reference and guide to consulting structural engineers. Its emphasis is on the practical applications of structural reliability theory rather than the theory itself. Consequently, probability theory is treated as a tool, and enough is given to show the novice reader how to calculate reliability. Some background in structural engineering and structural mechanics is assumed.
Editorial Reviews
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"This is a great book … easy to teach from; students can readily learn the theory from its beginnings to its practical applications; it is a course topic that will be of great value in understanding structural design during the professional life of the engineer; it is an invaluable tool to guide in the development of national design standards such as the AASHTO bridge design specification; it is logical and it is fun to go back to time and again."
―Theodore V. Galambos, Emeritus Professor, University of Minnesota
"… a must read for any engineer working in the civil engineering structures arena. … provides the necessary knowledge to give structural engineers the tools they need to make better designs a priori and determine structural failures a posteriori."
―Andrew D. Sorensen, Ph.D., Idaho State University,
"Compared to other textbooks in this area, Reliability of Structures is particularly easy to understand. … ideal for a first course in this topic, or if the classroom contains undergraduate students who might be otherwise lost in an advanced theoretical presentation. A particular strength is its discussion of design code development and calibration, perhaps the most important application of reliability analysis in structural engineering."
―Christopher Eamon, Wayne State University
About the Author
Andrzej S. Nowak is Robert W. Brightfelt Professor of Engineering at the University of Nebraska, USA. He has received the ASCE Moisseiff Award, the IFIP WG 7.5 Award, the Bene Merentibus Medal, and the Kasimir Gzowski Medal from the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers.
Kevin R. Collins is an Associate Professor at Valley Forge Military College, USA.
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Blast Resistant Design Guide for Reinforced Concrete Structures
Author(s)/Editor(s): Smith, S., McCann, D. and Kamara, M. | Size: 8 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Original preprint | Publisher: PCA | Year: 2009 | pages: 152
his guide, which includes a foreword by Dr. Gene Corley, provides structural engineers with a practical treatment of the design of cast-in-place reinforced concrete structures to resist the effects of blast loads. Readers will be able to understand the principles of blast-resistant design, determine the kind and degree of resistance a structure needs, and specify the materials and details required to provide it. Guidelines are provided for detailing requirements for blast resistance and detailing philosophy and reinforcement splicing are introduced for columns, beams, slabs, walls and joints. It includes a final chapter devoted to design methods that can protect structures against progressive collapse.
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Author(s)/Editor(s): W. Morgan Edited by Ian G Buckle | Size: 17.9 MB | Format:PDF | Quality:Scanner | Publisher: Sportshelf | Year: 1977 | pages: 254 | ISBN: ISBN-10: 9780273010791 ISBN-13: 978-0273010791
This second edition of W. Morgan original work has been updated with complete conversion to SI units and numerous new photographs throughout the text. The intuitive approach to structural principles has been retained to give students and others connected with the building industry an almost non-mathematical introduction to structural engineering. At the same time expanded definition of fundamental concepts have been included along with new sections on high-rise buildings and earthquake effects on structures. Data on modern structures are included in the later chapters.
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This book is intended as an essential study aid for the finite element method. Based on the free computer algebra system Maxima, the authors offer routines for symbolically or numerically solving problems in the context of plane truss and frame structures, allowing readers to check classical ‘hand calculations’ on the one hand and to understand the computer implementation of the method on the other. The mechanical theories focus on the classical one-dimensional structural elements, i.e. bars, Euler–Bernoulli and Timoshenko beams, and their combination to generalized beam elements. Focusing on one-dimensional elements reduces the complexity of the mathematical framework, and the resulting matrix equations can be displayed with all components and not merely in the form of a symbolic representation. In addition, the use of a computer algebra system and the incorporated functions, e.g. for equation solving, allows readers to focus more on the methodology of the finite element method and not on standard procedures.
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This book is a collection of invited lectures including the 5th Nicholas Ambraseys distinguished lecture, four keynote lectures and twenty-two thematic lectures presented at the 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in June 2018. The lectures are put into chapters written by the most prominent internationally recognized academics, scientists, engineers and researchers in Europe. They address a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art and cutting-edge topics in earthquake engineering, engineering seismology and seismic risk assessment and management.
The book is of interest to civil engineers, engineering seismologists, seismic risk managers, policymakers and consulting companies covering a wide spectrum of fields from geotechnical and structural earthquake engineering, to engineering seismology and seismic risk assessment and management. Scientists, professional engineers, researchers, civil protection policymakers and students interested in the seismic design of civil engineering structures and infrastructures, hazard and risk assessment, seismic mitigation policies and strategies, will find in this book not only the most recent advances in the state-of-the-art, but also new ideas on future earthquake engineering and resilient design of structures.
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DirectX graphics is now the default.
Enhanced modeling of steel cross frame geometry is now available.
Steel cross diaphragms are now available for precast I-girder bridges.
User specified haunch loads are now available.
Automated wind load on superstructure, substructure, and live load have been added.
Spectral matching of time history functions for a given response spectrum now available.
A new nonlinear multi-step static load case is available.
Advanced applied load options now avilable for multi-step static load cases.
AASHTO Manual for Bridge Evaluation (MBE) 3rd Edition is now covered.
AASHTO rating service checks for concrete box, multi-cell box, precast I, precast U, and flat slab bridge sections have been implemented.
Named bridge response displays for the GUI and reports are available.
AASHTO steel U-girder rating detailed report has been added.
"Plus" license level now allows consideration of multiple stages in stage construction load cases. CSiBridge now consists of three levels; "Plus", "Advanced", and "Advanced w/Rating".
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DirectX graphics is now the default.
Spectral matching of time history functions for a given response spectrum has been implemented.
Auto wind loading has been added according to the Russian SP 20.13330.2011 code.
A new nonlinear multi-step static load case type has been added.
Advanced applied load options have been added for multi-step static load cases.
Turkish TS 500-2000(R2018), Mexican RCDF 2017, Australian AS 3600-2018 and Korean KBC 2016 concrete frame design have been added.
Korean KBC 2016 steel frame design code, including seismic design requirements has been added.
STL file export for 3-D printing now available.
Cross-product and versionless API now available.
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This book presents the most recent advances on the mechanics of soft and composite shells and their nonlinear vibrations and stability, including advanced problems of modeling human vessels (aorta) with fluid-structure interaction. It guides the reader into nonlinear modelling of shell structures in applications where advanced composite and complex biological materials must be described with great accuracy. To achieve this goal, the book presents nonlinear shell theories, nonlinear vibrations, buckling, composite and functionally graded materials, hyperelasticity, viscoelasticity, nonlinear damping, rubber and soft biological materials. Advanced nonlinear shell theories, not available in any other book, are fully derived in a simple notation and are ready to be implemented in numerical codes. The work features a blend of the most advanced theory and experimental results, and is a valuable resource for researchers, professionals and graduate students, especially those interested in mechanics, aeronautics, civil structures, materials, bioengineering and solid matter at different scales.
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This guide assists practitioners in understanding: 1) twisting moments in two-way slabs, when twisting moments are an essential consideration; 2) methods that can be used to account for twisting moments in design; and 3) the options available for each method of the various system geometries. Descriptions of twisting moments are provided theoretically and visually in the guide, and six methods of accounting for twisting moments in design are discussed. Applicability of the various methods is evaluated through a comparison of designs resulting from each method for a variety of two-way slab types and geometries. The theories described in the guide also apply to the design of two-way wall and two-way dome systems.
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