Ultimate Limit State Design of Steel-Plated Structures (Hardcover)

Preface.

About the Authors.

How to Use This Book.

Principles of Limit State Design.

Buckling and Ultimate Strength Behavior of Plate-Stiffener Combinations: Beams, Columns and Beam-Columns.

Elastic and Inelastic Buckling of Plates under Complex Circumstances.

Post-Buckling and Ultimate Strength Behavior of Plates.

Elastic and Inelastic Buckling of Stiffened Panels and Grillages.

Post-buckling and Ultimate Strength Behavior of Stiffened Panels and Grillages.

Ultimate Strength of Plate Assemblies: Plate Girders, Box Columns/Girders and Corrugated Panels.

Ultimate Strength of Ship Hulls.

Impact Mechanics and Structural Design for Accidents.

Fracture Mechanics and Ultimate Strength of Cracked Structures.

A Semi-analytical Method for the Elastic-Plastic Large-deflection Analysis of Plates under Combined Loading.

The Nonlinear Finite Element Method.

The Idealized Structural Unit Method. 

Appendices.

Index.