Matrix Structural

Analysis

Description
The aims of the first edition ofMatrix Structural Analysiswere
to place proper emphasis on the methods of matrix structural
analysis used in practice and to lay the groundwork for more
advanced subject matter. This extensively revised Second
Edition accounts for changes in practice that have taken place
in the intervening twenty years. It incorporates advances in
the science and art of analysis that are suitable for application
now, and will be of increasing importance in the years ahead.
It is written to meet the needs of both the present and the
coming generation of structural engineers.
KEY FEATURES
Comprehensive coverage - As in the first edition, the book
treats both elementary concepts and relativity advanced
material.
Nonlinear frame analysis - An introduction to nonlinear
analysis is presented in four chapters: a general introduction,
geometric nonlinearity, material nonlinearity, and solution of
nonlinear equilibrium equations.
Interactive computer graphics program - Packaged with the
text isMASTAN2, a MATLAB based program that provides for
graphically interactive structure definition, linear and nonlinear
analysis, and display of results.

WILLIAM MCGUIRE, Late Professor of Civil Engineering,

Emeritus, Cornell University. He was the author of a well-known
textbook,Steel Structures. He was a member of the National
Academy of Engineering and among his awards were the T.R.
Higgins Lectureship of the American Institute of Steel
Construction and the Shortridge Hardesty Award of the American
Society of Civil Engineers.
RICHARD H. GALLAGHER, PhD, Late President, Clarkson
University, was a pioneer in the development of the finite
element method. He was the author of the textbookFinite
Element Analysis Fundamentals. He was a member of the
National Academy of Engineering and the recipient of many
awards, among them the ASME Medal, the highest honor of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American
Society of Engineering Education's Lamme Medal.
RONALD D. ZIEMIAN, PhD, Professor of Civil Engineering,
Bucknell University. He is engaged in the development of
structural analysis software and active as a researcher and
consulting engineer. He is the editor of the reference bookGuide
to Stability Design Criteria for Metal Structures. He is the
recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers' premier
award, the Norman Medal, for a paper based on the inelastic
behaviour of steel structures, and ASCE's Shortridge Hardesty