This new edition updates and enhances the introductory background material, expands the coverage of structural dynamics, covers modern structural analysis techniques employed in the design of earthquake-resistant structures, and provides new worked examples and problems with answers.

Structural analysis modeling. Statically determinate structures. Introduction to the analysis of statically indeterminate structures. Force method of analysis. Displacement method of analysis. Use of force and displacement methods. Strain energy and virtual work. Determination of displacements by virtual work. Important energy theorems. Displacement of elastic structures by special methods. Application of force and displacement methods. Influence lines for beams, frames grids, arches, and trusses. Effects of axial forces on flexural stiffness. Analysis of shear-wall structures. Method of finite differences. Finite-element method. Further development of finite-element method. Plastic analysis of continuous beams and frames. Yield-line and strip methods for slabs. Structural dynamics. Response of structures to earthquakes. Computer analysis of framed structures. Implementation of computer analysis. Nonlinear analysis. Structural reliability analysis. Structural analysis computer programs.