Table of Contents

1) Introduction

2) Design Loads and Structural Framing

3) Statics of Structures—Reactions

4) Trusses

5) Beams and Frames

6) Cables and Arches

7) Deflections of Beams and Frames

8) Work-Energy Methods for Computing Deflections

9) Analysis of Indeterminate Structures by the Flexibility Method

10) Analysis of Indeterminate Beams and Frames by the Slope-Deflection Method

11) Analysis of Indeterminate Beams and Frames by the Moment Distribution Method

12) Influence Lines for Moving Loads

13) Approximate Analysis of Indeterminate Structures

14) Introduction to the General Stiffness Method

15) Matrix Analysis of Trusses by the Direct Stiffness Method

16) Matrix Analysis of Beams and Frames by the Direct Stiffness Method

Appendix

Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems

Index

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