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Book SynopsisAbout our author
For over 20 years, Dr. James Hanson has blended his two greatest passions: engineering and teaching. His undergraduate and graduate degrees come from Cornell University where his engineering and teaching skills started developing. He further developed those skills as a structural engineer for a large chemical company and as an engineer officer in the US Army. As a result, he is a licensed professional engineer in New York and Indiana.
Now he is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology which means he gets to focus on developing pedagogies and testing their effectiveness. His specialty is speeding up the novice-to-expert transition in the area of evaluating the reasonableness of analysis and design results.
Jim's passion for blending engineering and teaching have led to awards from the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Amer
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
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Loads and Structure Idealization
- 1.1 Loads
- 1.2 Load Combinations
- 1.3 Structure Idealization
- 1.4 Application of Gravity Loads
- 1.5 Application of Lateral Loads
- 1.6 Distribution of Lateral Loads by Flexible Diaphragm
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Predicting Results
- 2.1 Qualitative Truss Analysis
- 2.2 Principle of Superposition
- 2.3 Principle of Superposition
- 2.4 Approximating Loading Conditions
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Cables and Arches
- 3.1 Cables with Point Loads
- 3.2 Cables with Uniform Loads
- 3.3 Arches
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Internal Force Diagrams
- 4.1 Internal Forces by Integration
- 4.2 Constructing Diagrams by Deduction
- 4.3 Diagrams for Frames
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Deformations
- 5.1 Double Integration Method
- 5.2 Conjugate Beam Method
- 5.3 Virtual Work Method
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Influence Lines
- 6.1 Table-of-Points Method
- 6.2 Müller-Breslau Method
- 6.3 Using Influence Lines
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Introduction to Computer Aided Analysis
- 7.1 Why Computer Results are Always Wrong
- 7.2 Checking Fundamental Principles
- 7.3 Checking Features of the Solution
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Approximate Analysis of Indeterminate Trusses and Braced Frames
- 8.1 Indeterminate Trusses
- 8.2 Braced Frames with Lateral Loads
- 8.3 Braced Frames with Gravity Loads
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Approximate Analysis of Rigid Frames
- 9.1 Gravity Load Method
- 9.2 Portal Method for Lateral Loads
- 9.3 Cantilever Method for Lateral Loads
- 9.4 Combined Gravity and Lateral Loads
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Approximate Lateral Displacements
- 10.1 Braced Frames — Story Drift Method
- 10.2 Braced Frames — Virtual Work Method
- 10.3 Rigid Frames — Stiff Beam Method
- 10.4 Rigid Frames — Virtual Work Method
- 10.5 Solid Walls — Single Story
- 10.6 Solid Walls — Multistory
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Diaphragms
- 11.1 Distribution of Lateral Loads by Rigid Diaphragm
- 11.2 In Plane Shear: Collector Beams
- 11.3 In Plane Moment: Diaphragm Chords
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Force Method
- 12.1 One Degree Indeterminate Beams
- 12.2 Multi-Degree Indeterminate Beams
- 12.3 Indeterminate Trusses
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Moment Distribution Method
- 13.1 Overview of Method
- 13.2 Fixed End Moments and Distribution Factors
- 13.3 Beams and Sidesway Inhibited Frames
- 13.4 Sidesway Frames
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Direct Stiffness Method for Trusses
- 14.1 Overview of Method
- 14.2 Transformation and Element Stiffness Matrices
- 14.3 Compiling the System of Equations
- 14.4 Finding Deformations, Reactions and Internal Forces
- 14.5 Additional Loadings
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Direct Stiffness Method for Frames
- 15.1 Element Stiffness Matrix
- 15.2 Transformation Matrix
- 15.3 Global Stiffness Matrix
- 15.4 Loads Between Nodes
- 15.5 Direct Stiffness Method
- 15.6 Internal Forces
