Product Description

With broad scope and an easy-to-follow step-by-step approach, this key text provides students and professionals with a comprehensive and extensive collection of worked examples, setting out how to analyse different types of structure.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73238 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 720 pages

From the Back Cover

Structural analysis is an essential core subject in all civil/structural undergraduate programmes of study. In addition, it is frequently included in the curriculum of other disciplines such as building and architecture.

Students adopt a variety of strategies when developing their knowledge and understanding of structural behaviour. This new textbook focuses on the use of worked examples using traditional 'hand' methods of analysis. A step-by-step approach has been adopted in all solutions and, where required, the appropriate concepts and principles are explained and integrated within the text.

Examples in Structural Analysis is suitable for levels of study ranging from first to final years in relation to civil/structural, building and architecture courses. The comprehensive and extensive selection of problems given in the book (i.e. almost two hundred detailed solutions) provides an excellent resource for both lecturers and students seeking fully worked examples on different structural analysis topics. It is also an ideal reference text for use in design offices and practices involved in the construction industry.

About the Author

William M. C. McKenzie is a Teaching Fellow at Napier University, Edinburgh, and has been actively involved in teaching, consultancy and research for more than twenty five years. He is also the author of four design textbooks.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Book
Offers loads of great worked examples from the very basic statically determinant problems to the most complicated space-frame and plastic portal analysis. The main focus of the book is to provide you with a vast amount of excellent worked examples rather than focus on the derivation of formulae that most text books to do.

great
this isnt a book to learn theory but it explains briefly the theory and then has many examples,well presented and covers many methods.very good

structural analysis
A good structural analysis book. i haven't got to look to closely - because i ordered it for a friend. From what i saw at first glance, it seems to be loaded with easy to understand examples.