The book proceeds from basic to advanced topics and can be suitably used in a two-course sequence. Topics include basic treatments of (1) simple springs and bars, leading to two- and three-dimensional truss analysis; (2) beam bending, leading to plane frame and grid analysis and space frame analysis; (3) elementary plane stress/strain elements; (4) axisymmetric stress; (5) isoparametric formu
1. Introduction
2. Introduction to the Stiffness (Displacement) Method
3. Development of Truss Equations
4. Development of Bean Equations
5. Frame and Grid Equations
6. Development of the Plane Stress and Plane Strain Stiffness Equations
7. Pratical Considerations in Modelling; Interpreting Results; and Examples of Plane Stress/Strain Analsis
8. Development of the Linear-Strain Triangle Equations
9. Axisymmetric Elements
10. Isoparametric Formulation
Etc.