Elastic structures, conceived as slender bodies able to transmit loads, have been studied by scientists and engineers for centuries. By the seventeenth century

During the seventeenth century, several useful theories of elastic structures emerged, with applications to civil and mechanical engineering problems. Recent an

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Mathematical Models for Structural Reliability Analysis offers mathematical models for describing load and material properties in solving structural engineering

This book provides the general reader with an introduction to mathematical elasticity, by means of general concepts in classic mechanics, and models for elastic