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A crucial element of structural and continuum mechanics, stability theory has limitless applications in civil, mechanical, aerospace, naval and nuclear engineering. This text of unparalleled scope presents a comprehensive exposition of the principles and applications of stability analysis. It has been proven as a text for introductory courses and various advanced courses for graduate students. It is also prized as an exhaustive reference for engineers and researchers.The authors' focus on understanding of the basic principles rather than excessive detailed solutions, and their treatment of each subject proceed from simple examples to general concepts and rigorous formulations. All the results are derived using as simple mathematics as possible. Numerous examples are given and 700 exercise problems help in attaining a firm grasp of this central aspect of solid mechanics.The book is an unabridged republication of the 1991 edition by Oxford University Press and the 2003 edition by Dover, updated with 18 pages of end notes.
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Bazant and Cedolin have created a comprehensive, modern, detailed, rigorous treatment of the principles and applications of structural stability analysis that should quickly become the premier reference book on this subject of great importance to civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering, and to materials science. The first half of the book deals with the stability of elastic structures and, in addition to treating the material covered in Alexander Chajes's Principles of Structural Stability Theory (CH, Dec'74) and W.F. Chen and E.M. Liu's Structural Stability (CH, Jan'88), it also presents an excellent treatment on the dynamic analysis of stability. The second half develops inelastic and damage theories of structural stability and presents "cutting edge" material on thermodynamic principles, creep buckling, three-dimensional continuum instabilities and the effects of a finite strain tensor, fracture, damage, and localization stabilities. Every graduate-level engineering library should acquire this important new book.-J. F. Carney III, Vanderbilt University
