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Probabilistic Methods In The Theory Of Structures: Strength Of Materials, Random Vibrations, And Random Buckling (Paperback)
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Probabilistic Methods In The Theory Of Structures: Strength Of Materials, Random Vibrations, And Random Buckling (Paperback)
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The first edition of this book appeared over three decades ago
(Wiley-Interscience, 1983), whereas the second one saw light on the
verge of new millennium (Dover, 1999). This is third, corrected and
expanded edition that appears in conjunction with its companion
volume .Thus, the reader is able to both get acquainted with the
theoretical material and be able to master some of the problems,
following Chinese dictum: I hear and I forget. I see and I
remember. I do and I understand - Confucius.The main idea of the
book lies in the fact that three topics: probabilistic strength of
materials, random vibrations, and probabilistic buckling are
presented in a single package allowing one to see the forest in
between the trees. Indeed, these three topics usually are presented
in separate manners, in different specialized books. Here, the
reader gets a feeling of true unity of the subject at large in
order to appreciate that in the end what one wants is reliability
of the structure, in conjunction with its operating conditions.As
the author describes in the Preface of the second edition, this
book was not conceived ab initio, as a book that author strived to
compose. Rather, it was forced, as it were, upon me due to two
reasons. One was rather a surprising but understandable requirement
in the venerable Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands to
prepare the lecture notes for students with the view of reducing
skyrocketing costs of acquisition of textbooks by the students. The
other one was an unusually warm acceptance of the notes that the
author prepared while at Delft University of Technology and later
in Haifa, at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology by the
legendary engineering scientist Warner Tjardus Koiter (1914-1997).
The energy necessary to prepare the second and third editions came
from enthusiastic reviews that appeared in various sources. Author
embraced the simplicity of exposition as the main virtue following
Isaac Newton's view that 'Truth is ever to be found in simplicity,
and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.'
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