Structural Analysis: A Unified Classical and Matrix Approach

by Amin Ghali, Adam Neville, Tom G. Brown

Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0415774330

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Book Description

This comprehensive textbook, now in its sixth edition, combines classical and matrix-based methods of structural analysis and develops them concurrently. New solved examples and problems have been added, giving over 140 worked examples and more than 400 problems with answers.

The introductory chapter on structural analysis modelling gives a good grounding to the beginner, showing how structures can be modelled as beams, plane or space frames and trusses, plane grids or assemblages of finite element. Idealization of loads, anticipated deformations, deflected shapes and bending moment diagrams are presented. Readers are also shown how to idealize real three-dimensional structures into simplified models that can be analyzed with little or no calculation, or with more involved calculations using computers. Dynamic analysis, essential for structures subject to seismic ground motion, is further developed in this edition and in a code-neutral manner. The topic of structural reliability analysis is discussed in a new chapter.

Translated into six languages, this textbook is of considerable international renown, and is widely recommended by many civil and structural engineering lecturers to their students because of its clear and thorough style and content.

About the Author

Amin Ghali is Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and Professor Emeritus in the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Calgary, Canada

Adam Neville is former Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dundee, Scotland

Tom G. Brown is Professor and Head of the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Calgary, Canada

Customer Reviews

I have used this book for 6 months now as I have written my masters thesis in structural engineering and have come to really appreciate it. My fellow graduate students and I have marveled at the amazing analysis methods it contains. It is not intended to be a topic specific book, but an overview of structural analysis (hence the name). The book gives new ideas for solving problems that I have never known before. One can then research the method more in-depth if necessary. By the way, if you want a book with more than two chapters on finite element analysis (as one reviewer lamented), then buy a finite element book, but if you want a great structural analysis reference then I recommend this one.