Buckling Experiments: Experimental Methods in Buckling of Thin-Walled Structures, Volume 1: Basic Concepts, Columns, Beams and Plates [Kõva köide]

Considers controlled, laboratory-type experiments, not those carried out by contractors investigating how cheaply they can build walls or foundations and get away with it. Focuses on experimentation as a legitimate and independent activity, rather than simply the verification of theory to which it is often relegated. Rejecting a cookbook approach, presents selected typical experiments in considerable detail with some comments focusing on questions raised during the tests, the methods employed, and the actual test atmosphere. Includes some classic experiments that continue to be valid in their own right and illustrate important principles and procedures, despite the recent developments in instrumentation and techniques for acquiring and reducing data. The amount of information should allow researchers to choose or reject techniques according to their own criteria. Also discusses a certain amount of theory that is deemed essential. The second of the two volumes covers various kinds of buckling in a wide range of specific materials and systems and nondestructive testing. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Written by eminent researchers and renown authors of numerous publications in the buckling structures field.
* Deals with experimental investigation in the industry.
* Covers the conventional and more unconventional methods for testing for a wide variety of structures.
* Various parameters which may influence the test results are systemically highlighted including, imperfections, boundary conditions, loading conditions as well as the effects of holes and cut-outs.