W. T. Koiter's Elastic Stability of Solids and Structures (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107407015)

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.

Author: Arnold M. a. Van Der Heijden
ISBN-10: 110740701X
ISBN-13: 9781107407015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2012
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.51d