Table of Contents

Authors Preface How to Use this Book Revision of the Fundamentals of Statics Simple Structures (Loads and Reactions) Pin Jointed Frame Structures Shearing Forces and Bending Moments Stress Analysis (Direct Stresses) Bending Stresses Combined Bending and Direct Stresses Shear Stresses Torsional Stresses Stress Transformations and Mohr's Circle of Stress Composite Sections Beam Deflections and Rotations Strain Energy Virtual Work Moment Distribution and Statically Indeterminate Structures The Slope Deflection Method Influence Lines Elastic Buckling of Axially Loaded Compression Members Plastic Analysis Appendix.

About the Author

RAY HULSE is Deputy Dean of the School of the Built Environment at Coventry University. An experienced teacher and writer, he has co-authored several other texts for Macmillan, including Reinforced Concrete Design, fifth edition (with W.H.Mosely and J.H.Bungey), published in 1999. - JACK CAIN was formerly Principle Lecturer and Course Leader for the Civil Engineering degree course at Coventry University. He has had many years of industrial and teaching experience .