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Material Properties and Failure Phenomena
Up until now we have not said much about the way structures behave in the socalled “real world”. Our focus has been…
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Indeterminate Systems
The key to resolving our predicament, when faced with a statically indeterminate problem – one in which the equations of…
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Internal Forces and Moments in Beams
A beam is a structural element like the truss member but, unlike the latter, it is designed, fabricated, and assembled…
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Internal Forces in Members of a Truss Structure
We are ready to start talking business, to buy a loaf of bread. Up until now we have focused on…
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Static Equilibrium Force and Moment
The correct response is zero: For a particle at rest, or moving with constant velocity relative to an inertial frame,…
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Equations of motion of linear elastic bodies
The final equations of the purely mechanical theory of linear elasticity (i.e., when coupling with the temperature field is neglected,…
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Finite elastic deformations
When elastic response under arbitrary deformation gradients is considered—because rotations, if not strains, are large or, in a material such…
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Thermodynamic considerations
In thermodynamic terminology, a state of purely elastic material response corresponds to an equilibrium state, and a process during which…
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Thermal strains
Temperature change can also cause strain. In an isotropic material the thermally induced extensional strains are equal in all directions,…
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Stress-strain relations
Linear elastic isotropic solid The simplest type of stress-strain relation is that of the linear elastic solid, considered in circumstances…
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Finite deformation and strain tensors
In the theory of finite deformations, extension and rotations of line elements are unrestricted as to size. For an infinitesimal…