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Over the last several years, the four authors have jointly
conducted research into the analysis of vibrating Mindlin plates as
a collaborative project between Nanyang Technological University,
The National University of Singapore, and The University of
Queensland. The research was prompted by the fact that there is a
dearth of vibration results for Mindlin plates when compared to
classical thin plate solutions. To generate the vibration results,
the authors have successfully employed the Ritz method for general
plate shapes and boundary conditions. The Ritz method, once thought
to be awkward for general plate analysis, can be automated through
suitable trial functions (for displacements) that satisfy the
geometric plate boundary conditions "a priori." This work has been
well-received by academics and researchers, as indicated by the
continual requests for the authors' papers and the Ritz software
codes. This monograph is written with the view to share this
so-called "p"-Ritz method for the vibration analysis of Mindlin
plates and its software codes with the research community. To the
authors' knowledge, the monograph contains the first published Ritz
plate software codes of its kind.
Structural Vibration: Exact Solutions for Strings, Membranes,
Beams, and Plates offers an introduction to structural vibration
and highlights the importance of the natural frequencies in design.
It focuses on free vibrations for analysis and design of structures
and machine and presents the exact vibration solutions for strings,
membranes, beams, and plates. This book emphasizes the exact
solutions for free transverse vibration of strings, membranes,
beams, and plates. It explains the intrinsic, fundamental, and
unexpected features of the solutions in terms of known functions as
well as solutions determined from exact characteristic equations.
The book provides: A single-volume resource for exact solutions of
vibration problems in strings, membranes, beams, and plates A
reference for checking vibration frequency values and mode shapes
of structural problems Governing equations and boundary conditions
for vibration of structural elements Analogies of vibration
problems Structural Vibration: Exact Solutions for Strings,
Membranes, Beams, and Plates provides practicing engineers,
academics, and researchers with a reference for data on a specific
structural member as well as a benchmark standard for numerical or
approximate analytical methods.
Groundbreaking and comprizing articles by expert contributors, this
volume provides a comprehensive treatment of VLFSs and their
relationship with the sea, marine habitats, the pollution of costal
waters and tidal and natural current flow. It looks in-depth at:
VLFS and the colonization of ocean space with their appearance in
the waters off developed coastal cities wave properties, which is
essential for estimating the loading on the VLFS as well as for
modelling structure-fluid interactions hydroelastic and structural
analysis of VLFS at an overall level and the cell level the
analysis and design of breakwaters simulation models to understand
the actual flow of water through the VLFS and to determine the
drift forces for the mooring systems anti-corrosion and maintenance
systems new research and developments, with emphasis on the
Mega-Float, a 1 km long floating test runway. Well-illustrated with
photographs, drawings, equations for mathematical modelling and
analysis and extensively referenced, Very Large Floating Structures
is ideal for professionals, academics and students of civil and
structural engineering.
This book highlights the latest advancements in the use of
automated systems in the design, construction, operation and future
of the built environment and its occupants. It considers how the
use of automated decision-making frameworks, artificial
intelligence and other technologies of automation are presently
impacting the practice of architects, engineers, project managers
and contractors, and articulates the near future changes to
workflows, legal frameworks and the wider AEC industry. This book
surveys and compiles the use of city apps, robots that operate
buildings and fabricate structural elements, 3D printing, drones,
sensors, algorithms, and advanced prefabricated modules. The book
also contributes to the growing literature on smart cities, and
explores the impacts on data privacy and data sovereignty that
arise through the use of sensors, digital twins and intelligent
transport systems. It provides a useful reference for further
research and development in the area of automation in design and
construction to architects, engineers, project managers,
superintendents and construction lawyers, contractors, policy
makers, and students.
This book highlights the latest advancements in the use of
automated systems in the design, construction, operation and future
of the built environment and its occupants. It considers how the
use of automated decision-making frameworks, artificial
intelligence and other technologies of automation are presently
impacting the practice of architects, engineers, project managers
and contractors, and articulates the near future changes to
workflows, legal frameworks and the wider AEC industry. This book
surveys and compiles the use of city apps, robots that operate
buildings and fabricate structural elements, 3D printing, drones,
sensors, algorithms, and advanced prefabricated modules. The book
also contributes to the growing literature on smart cities, and
explores the impacts on data privacy and data sovereignty that
arise through the use of sensors, digital twins and intelligent
transport systems. It provides a useful reference for further
research and development in the area of automation in design and
construction to architects, engineers, project managers,
superintendents and construction lawyers, contractors, policy
makers, and students.
This book surveys key projects that have seen the construction of
large floating structures or have attained detailed conceptual
designs. This compilation of key floating structures in a single
volume captures the innovative features that mark the technological
advances made in this field of engineering and will provide a
useful reference for ideas, analysis, design and construction of
these unique and emerging urban projects to offshore and marine
engineers, urban planners, architects and students.
This book surveys key projects that have seen the construction of
large floating structures or have attained detailed conceptual
designs. This compilation of key floating structures in a single
volume captures the innovative features that mark the technological
advances made in this field of engineering, and will provide a
useful reference for ideas, analysis, design and construction of
these unique and emerging urban projects to offshore and marine
engineers, urban planners, architects and students.
Analysis and Design of Plated Structures: Stability, Second Edition
covers the latest developments in new plate solutions and
structural models for plate analysis. Completely revised and
updated by its distinguished editors and international team of
contributors, this edition also contains new chapters on GBT-based
stability analysis and the finite strip and direct strength method
(DSM). Other sections comprehensively cover bracing systems,
storage tanks under wind loading, the analysis and design of light
gauge steel members, applications of high strength steel members,
cold-formed steel pallet racks, and the design of curved steel
bridges. This is a comprehensive reference for graduate students,
researchers and practicing engineers in the fields of civil,
structural, aerospace, mechanical, automotive and marine
engineering.
Most books on the theory and analysis of beams and plates deal with
the classical (Euler-Bernoulli/Kirchoff) theories but few include
shear deformation theories in detail. The classical beam/plate
theory is not adequate in providing accurate bending, buckling, and
vibration results when the thickness-to-length ratio of the
beam/plate is relatively large. This is because the effect of
transverse shear strains, neglected in the classical theory,
becomes significant in deep beams and thick plates. This book
illustrates how shear deformation theories provide accurate
solutions compared to the classical theory.
Equations governing shear deformation theories are typically more
complicated than those of the classical theory. Hence it is
desirable to have exact relationships between solutions of the
classical theory and shear deformation theories so that whenever
classical theory solutions are available, the corresponding
solutions of shear deformation theories can be readily obtained.
Such relationships not only furnish benchmark solutions of shear
deformation theories but also provide insight into the significance
of shear deformation on the response. The relationships for beams
and plates have been developed by many authors over the last
several years. The goal of this monograph is to bring together
these relationships for beams and plates in a single volume.
The book is divided into two parts. Following the introduction,
Part 1 consists of Chapters 2 to 5 dealing with beams, and Part 2
consists of Chapters 6 to 13 covering plates. Problems are included
at the end of each chapter to use, extend, and develop new
relationships.
The study of buckling loads, which often hinges on numerical
methods, is key in designing structural elements. But the need for
analytical solutions in addition to numerical methods is what drove
the creation of Exact Solutions for Buckling of Structural Members.
It allows readers to assess the reliability and accuracy of
solutions obtained by numerical methods. The author has attempted
to gather and present as many exact buckling solutions as possible
in one single volume for engineers and researchers. These buckling
solutions of columns, beams, arches, ring plates, and shells should
serve as benchmarks for checking the validity, convergence, and
accuracy of numerical methods and solutions.
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