Examples in Structural Analysis

by William M.C. McKenzie

Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 041537054X

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Book Description

Structural analysis is a core subject for civil and structural engineering undergraduates, and a challenging one. This new textbook provides a comprehensive and extensive collection of worked examples, showing students how to analyze different types of structures.

Each of the principal analysis techniques inherent in the design process are summarized and their uses are illustrated using numerous, fully worked and graded examples of international application, since it is not dependent on design codes. Where appropriate, detailed mathematical concepts are explained and integrated within the text.

With an uncommonly broad scope and an easy-to-follow step-by-step approach, this key text is ideal for first to final year students on civil/structural engineering, building and architecture courses as well as a practical reference for practising consultants, contractors and architects.

About the Author

William M. C. McKenzie is a Teaching Fellow at Napier University, Edinburgh, and has been actively involved in teaching, consultancy and research for more than twenty five years. He is also the author of four design textbooks.

Customer Reviews

After graduation and once you start practicing, you start forgetting about how to resolve structures "by hand" and rely more and more in computer models. The trick is to maximize the profit by using computer aids. The risk of course is to blindly accept what the computer is telling you and end up designing something not adequate.

This book is fantastic: short in theoretical explanations but at the same time precise in what is necessary to understand, complete, and easy to follow. We use to say back in college that you need to "loosen your hand" by doing a lot of problems before a test. Now that I am preparing for the SE exam, I now I found what I need to take care of the structural analysis part at least.