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Chapman and Hall Structural Dynamics: Theory And Computation 4 Ed (Hb) by Mario Paz
This edition inlcudes recent developments in the area of structura dynamics, presenting a self-contained book on the analysis and design of structures subjected to dynamic forces or earthquake excitations. It covers every kind of structure, from simple structures modelled as single-degree-of-freedom systems through those modelled as "shear buildings" with multiple degrees of freedom and two- or three-dimensional frames and trusses, to continuous systems with distributed mass and elasticity. Table of contents; Part I: structures modelled as a single degree-of-freedom system; undamped single degree-of-freedom system; damped single degree-of-freedom system; response of one-degree-of-freedom system to haarmonic loading; response to general dynamic loading; Fourier analysis and response in the frequency domain; generalized co-ordinates and Rayleigh's method; nonlinear structural response; response spectra. Part II: structures modelled as shear buildings; the multistory shear building; free vibration of a shear building; forced motion of shear buildings; damped motion of shear buildings; reduction of dynamic matrices. Part III: framed structures modeled as discrete multidegree-of-freedom systems dynamic analysis of beams; dynamic analysis of plane frames; dynamic anaylsis of grids; three-dimensional frames; dynamic analysis of trusses; time history response of multidegree-of-freedom systems. Part IV: structures modelled with distributed properties; dynamic analysis of systems with distributed properties; discretization of continuous systems. Part V: introduction to finite element method; dynamic analysis of plates; dynamic analysis of shells; dynamic analysis of three-dimensional solid structures. Part VI: random vibration. Part VII: earthquake engineering; equivolent staic lateral force method - uniform Building Code 1994; dynamic method - uniform Building Code - 1994