In Chap. 3, the special case of flexural-torsional buckling strength of a plane beam-column subjected to loading in its plane is approached and solved from the standpoint of bifurcation. There, the ...

In Chapters 9, 10 and 11 we investigated the strength of beams in terms of the stresses produced by the action of bending, shear and torsion, respectively. An associated problem is the determination ...

• Calculate the deflections in stepped shafts more quickly and accurately by combining engineering knowledge with mathematics software. • Use Castigliano’s theorem and the Heavyside step function help ...

Laboratory four-point bending tests on five full-scale composite beams show that a rhomboidal wet joint filled with metakaolin-modified coarse-aggregate ultra-high performance concrete carried 5.56 ...