Plastic Design of Frames
PLASTIC DESIGN OF FRAMES
FUNDAMENTALS
PLASTIC DESIGN OF
FRAMES
SIR JOHN BAKER
Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Sciences
University
of Cambridge
AND
JACQUES HEYMAN
Reader in Engineering
University
of Cambridge
1. FUNDAMENTALS
PREFACE
This book presents the basic ideas of simple plastic theory, and should
cover the needs of a student of structural engineering up to the level of
a first degree. A first course might use material from chapters i and 2
only (perhaps omitting sections 1.6 to 1.8, 2.4 and 2.8) in which direct
solutions are obtained to problems of analysis and design. The more
sophisticated techniques of chapters 3 and 4 can then be studied, both
for their scientific importance, and because they enable a much wider
range of structures to be examined.
Each chapter contains a set of examples for the student to work,
roughly graded from very easy to really quite difficult. Indeed, the
reader who can solve all the examples of chapter 4 may conclude that he
has mastered the subject. Since plastic theory makes possible the direct
design of steel frames in a way that is not possible with elastic methods,
there is some emphasis on practical design problems. The undergraduate
may wish to omit most of these problems from a preliminary study of
the text, whereas a designer might tackle these first.
(The abbreviation M.S.T. 11, followed by a date after some of the
examples, indicates that they have been taken from the papers set for
Part II of the Mechanical Sciences Tripos, Cambridge, for that year.)
There are many topics which have not been discussed in this volume,
either because of their complexity or because they are not of primary
importance. Notes have been made in the text to indicate where a
discussion is incomplete, and volume 2 will give further consideration
to these and other applications of the theory.
Dr W. H. Ng has read the text with great care, but the responsibility
for any remaining errors must lie with the authors. Miss I. Bowen has
typed the manuscript, as she did those for both volumes of The Steel
Skeleton, with her usual good temper and skill.
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PLASTIC DESIGN OF FRAMES
FUNDAMENTALS
PLASTIC DESIGN OF
FRAMES
SIR JOHN BAKER
Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Sciences
University
of Cambridge
AND
JACQUES HEYMAN
Reader in Engineering
University
of Cambridge
1. FUNDAMENTALS
PREFACE
This book presents the basic ideas of simple plastic theory, and should
cover the needs of a student of structural engineering up to the level of
a first degree. A first course might use material from chapters i and 2
only (perhaps omitting sections 1.6 to 1.8, 2.4 and 2.8) in which direct
solutions are obtained to problems of analysis and design. The more
sophisticated techniques of chapters 3 and 4 can then be studied, both
for their scientific importance, and because they enable a much wider
range of structures to be examined.
Each chapter contains a set of examples for the student to work,
roughly graded from very easy to really quite difficult. Indeed, the
reader who can solve all the examples of chapter 4 may conclude that he
has mastered the subject. Since plastic theory makes possible the direct
design of steel frames in a way that is not possible with elastic methods,
there is some emphasis on practical design problems. The undergraduate
may wish to omit most of these problems from a preliminary study of
the text, whereas a designer might tackle these first.
(The abbreviation M.S.T. 11, followed by a date after some of the
examples, indicates that they have been taken from the papers set for
Part II of the Mechanical Sciences Tripos, Cambridge, for that year.)
There are many topics which have not been discussed in this volume,
either because of their complexity or because they are not of primary
importance. Notes have been made in the text to indicate where a
discussion is incomplete, and volume 2 will give further consideration
to these and other applications of the theory.
Dr W. H. Ng has read the text with great care, but the responsibility
for any remaining errors must lie with the authors. Miss I. Bowen has
typed the manuscript, as she did those for both volumes of The Steel
Skeleton, with her usual good temper and skill.
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