Dynamic Stability Of Structures

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Dynamic Stability of Structures

Author: Wei-Chau Xie
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2006-06-05
This book explores the theory of parametric stability of structures under deterministic and stochastic loadings.
Dynamic Stability of Structures

Dynamic Stability of Structures covers the proceedings of an International Conference on Dynamic Stability of Structures, held in Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois on October 18-20, 1965, jointly sponsored by the Air Force of Scientific Research and Northwestern University. The conference aims to delineate the various categories of dynamic stability phenomena. This book is organized into six sections encompassing 20 chapters that tackle general topics such as mathematical methods of analysis, physical phenomena, design applications in engineering, and reports of field research. The first two sections deal with the fundamentals, principles, and concept of dynamic stability, as well as an introduction to the use of computing machines as an aid in studying the motions of complicated dynamical systems. The succeeding two sections highlight the statistical aspects in the structural stability theory and certain problems of structural dynamic. These sections also look into the dynamic buckling of elastic structures and the buckling of long slender ships due to wave-induced whipping. The last two sections explore the stability and vibration problems of mechanical systems under harmonic excitation and the dynamic buckling under step loading. These sections also include discussions on the nonlinear dynamic response of shell-type structures and of a column under random loading, as well as Italian research in the field. Structural and mechanical engineers will find this book invaluable.
Dynamic Stability of Structures

This report deals primarily with extension of the energy-based concepts of dynamic stability, developed earlier for finite-degree-of-freedom systems, to continuous systems. Moreover, the related criteria for dynamic stability are demonstrated through several structural configurations, such as eccentrically loaded simple two-bar frames, geometrically imperfect, thin, cylindrical shells (of stiffened and unstiffened construction) and subjected to uniform axial compression and lateral pressure, and a pinnted, half-sine, shallow arch loaded transversely. All of these systems are subject to violent buckling under static application of the loads. Moreover, the developed concepts are extended, so as to apply to structural systems, which are either subject to smooth buckling or are not subject to buckling at all under static loading.