This comprehensive text addresses the elastic and plastic behavior of general structural elements under combined stress. It sets out to examine the stress strain behaviors of materials under simple test conditions and proceeds to show how these behaviors can be generalized under combined stress.
Key Features:
Outlines the finite element implementation of the generalized stress-strain relations for the solution of practical steel and concrete structural problems
Provides fully-worked examples, end-of-chapter problems, answers to selected problems, and clear illustrations and tables
Features important constitutive equations for structural materials and applications to steel and concrete structures
Includes examples of the most useful constitutive models and analytical methods
Preface
Notation
Part I — Fundamentals
Chapter 1 — Introduction
Chapter 2 — Yield and Failure Criteria
Chapter 3 — Elastic Stress-Strain Relations
Part II — Plastic Stress-Strain Relations
Chapter 4 — Stress-Strain Relations for Perfectly Plastic Materials
Chapter 5 — Stress-Strain Relations for Work-Hardening Materials
Part III — Metal Plasticity
Chapter 6 — Implementation in Metals
Part IV — Concrete Plasticity
Chapter 7 — Implementation in Concretes
Part V — Limit Analysis
Chapter 8 — General Theorems of Limit Analysis and Their Applications
Chapter 9 — Limit Analysis of Engineering Structures
Index
