Elastic Stability of Solids and Structures + 2


The Stability Of Elastic Equilibrium







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Publication Date: August 11, 2008 -- ISBN-10: 0521515289 -- ISBN-13: 978-0521515283 -- Edition: 1

This book deals with the elastic stability of solids and structures, on which Warner Koiter was the world's leading expert. It begins with fundamental aspects of stability, relating the basic notions of dynamic stability to more traditional quasi-static approaches. The book is concerned not only with buckling, or linear instability, but most importantly with nonlinear post-buckling behavior and imperfection-sensitivity. After laying out the general theory, Koiter applies the theory to a number of applications, with a chapter devoted to each. These include a variety of beam, plate, and shell structural problems and some basic continuum elasticity problems. Koiter's classic results on the nonlinear buckling and imperfection-sensitivity of cylindrical and spherical shells are included. The treatments of both the fundamental aspects and the applications are completely self-contained. This book was recorded as a detailed set of notes by Arnold van der Heijden from W. T. Koiter's last set of lectures on stability theory, at TU Delft.





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About the Author



Arnold M. A. van der Heijden is an advisor for HESTOCON, a technical drawing and design company in Breda, Netherlands. He received his Master's and PhD degrees, with honors, in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics under Professor Koiter. He has been a technical and scientific staff member in the Applied Mechanics Lab at Delft University of Technology, an Honorary Research Fellow at Harvard University, a professor at Eindhoven Technical University, a board member of the Department of Applied Mechanics of the Royal Dutch Institute for Engineers, and co-editor (with J. F. Besseling) of the Koiter symposium book Trends in Solid Mechanics. Dr van der Heijden has worked on staff and/or consulted for many corporations including Royal Dutch Shell plc (Pernis and the Hague), CAB Utrecht, with HESTOCON to develop RDW safety approved vehicle bumpers, ABB Lummus Global, and as a project leader of ATEX at General Electric Advanced Materials. He is currently working on improvement safety management for ProRail.





A general theory of elastic stability is presented. In contrast to previous works in the field, the present analysis is augmented by an investigation of the behavior of the buckled structure in the immediate neighborhood of the bifurcation point. This investigation explains why some structures, e,g., a flat plate supported along its edges and subjected to thrust in its plane, are capable of carrying loads considerably above the buckling load, while other structures, e.g., an axially loaded cylindrical shell, collapse at loads far below the theoretical critical load.



W. T. KOITER’S ELASTIC STABILITY OF

SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

This book deals with the elastic stability of solids and structures, for

which Warner Koiter was the world’s leading expert of his time. It

begins with fundamental aspects of stability, relating the basic notions

of dynamic stability to more traditional quasi-static approaches. The

book is concerned not only with buckling, or linear instability, but

most importantly with nonlinear postbuckling behavior and imperfection

sensitivity. After laying out the general theory, Koiter applies the

theory to a number of applications, with a chapter devoted to each.

These include a variety of beam, plate, and shell structural problems

and some basic continuum elasticity problems. Koiter’s classic results

on the nonlinear buckling and imperfection sensitivity of cylindrical

and spherical shells are included. The treatments of both the fundamental

aspects and the applications are completely self-contained. This

book was recorded as a detailed set of notes by Arnold van der Heijden

from W. T. Koiter’s last set of lectures on stability theory at TU

Delft.

Arnold M. A. van der Heijden has his own consultancy, HESTOCON

Consultancy B.V. He received his master’s and Ph.D. degrees, with

honors, in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics under Professor

Koiter. He has been a technical and scientific staff member in the

Applied Mechanics Laboratory at Delft University of Technology, an

honorary research Fellow at Harvard University, a professor at Eindhoven

Technical University, a board member of the Department of

Applied Mechanics of the Royal Dutch Institute for Engineers, and

co-editor (with J. F. Besseling) of the Koiter symposium book Trends

in Solid Mechanics. Dr. van der Heijden has worked on staff and consulted

for many corporations, including Royal Dutch Shell (Pernis and

The Hague), ABB Lummus Global, and as a project leader of ATEX

at General Electric Advanced Materials, SABIC, and Essent. He

has done gas explosion calculations for offshore platforms, including

structural analysis. He is currently working on improvements in safety

management for ProRail.





Product Details
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (August 11, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521515289
ISBN-13: 978-0521515283
Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches




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