This book deals with the elastic stability of solids and structures. It begins with fundamental aspects of stability, relating the basic notions of dynamic stability to more traditional quasi-static approaches. The book is concerned not only with buckling, or linear instability, but most importantly with nonlinear post-buckling behavior and imperfection-sensitivity. After laying out the general theory, Koiter applies the theory to a number of applications, with a chapter devoted to each. These include a variety of beam, plate, and shell structural problems and some basic continuum elasticity problems. Koiter's classic results on the nonlinear buckling and imperfection-sensitivity of cylindrical and spherical shells are included. The treatments of both the fundamental aspects and the applications are completely self contained. This book was recorded as a detailed set of notes by Arnold van der Heijden from W. T. Koiter's last set of lectures on stability theory, at TU Delft.
| ISBN: | 9781107407015 |
| Publication date: | 30th August 2012 |
| Author: | Arnold M. A. van der (Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands) Heijden |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Genres: |
Engineering: Mechanics of solids Mechanical engineering |