Mechanics of structural elements: theory and applications

Using the variational approach, this book presents the variational principles and methods of analysis for applied elasticity and structural mechanics. Oriented towards experts in civil engineering, researchers, and software developers, this book is also useful to students of engineering, and to professors of structural analysis

Innovative Analysis Topics

IASS-IACM 2008 Session: Innovative Analysis Topics -- Plenary Lecture: Abstract, Slides and Video: "Rigid mechanics and its role in nonlinear structural analysis" by Yeong Bin YANG (National Taiwan University) -- "The stability of plane shape under bending of elastically-plastic finite rigidity tendons, having non-symmetrical cross-section" by Oleksandr SHYMANOVSKYI , Valeryi SHALYNSKYI (V. Shimanovsky UkrRDIsteelconstruction) -- "Internal forces and displacements in polynomial-shaped arches" by Lazaro GIMENA , Pedro GONZAGA, Faustino GIMENA (Public University of Navarre) -- "Decision of initial shape and stress from equilibrium shape by structural analysis based on condition for existence of solution" by Tetsu-Yuki TANAMI -- "Mistakes and paradoxes in solutions of spatial, geometrically nonlinear problems and equilibrium stability problems" by Anatoly V. PERELMUTER (SCAD Soft), Vladimir I. SLIVKER (JSC Giprostroymost