Elastic Instability Phenomena

by J.M.T. Thompson and G.W. Hunt

This treatise on the stability of engineering structures and components under conservative and non-conservative loading emphasizes important non-linear features of the behavior from the viewpoint of catastrophe phenomena. Part One examines the basis of structural dynamics, and Part Two considers the buckling and post-buckling of structures under gravity loading, and relates the engineering approach to the new catastrophe theory of Thom and Zeeman...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471902799
• ISBN13: 9780471902799
• Release Date: May 1984
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 222 Pages