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STRUCTURAL
STABILITY
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ELSEVIERPREFACE
“This book presets simple, concise, and reasonably comprehensive
inteducton tothe principles and theory of stuuctural sabi That are
the ba seuss! design tnd shows how they may’ be wed
the sole of practical Suing rme Gesign protens. I provides the
tecssary background for the taniton for: stents of suctral
Chenery on fundamental tore of stratral stably of memes
{i tanes to praca dopa resin AISC Spetcations twas writen
{or upper level undergraduate or Beginning eraduat tudeats ia elles
Sh unvesites onthe one hand, and those ia engineering pratice on
the other.
“rhe spe ofthe hook is indcated by its coments. The concepts and
vines scully presented i Chapter i form the bss for
the elastic and pare theories of salty of members and frames which
tue daca sepratey in Chapter 2 (Columns), Chapter 3. (Beam
Cama) Chapter 4 (Rigit Frames}, and Copier 5 (Beams). The
nery ant numerical tet of antag a strate fei sty
fnutlload ae deserved in Chapter 6
‘Each f these later shopers set oot folly w state the basic
niles of srctra sabe, flowed by the derivation of the
oceery base governing, iflereaal equations bused on idealized
onion. These al solutions tnd their phys! signage oe
then exaniaed. The chapter goer om to sbow how these solution ae
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