General Instability of Structures

1964 University of California Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California), 8 5/8 x 11 1/8 inches tall brown cloth hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), yellow lettering to front cover and spine, blue endpapers, typescript printed on tan stock, printed only on recto side of each leaf, illustrated with many equations, ix, 90 ff. Slight to moderate soiling and rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean and unmarked - of this scarce civil engineering work, written for the author's PhD at UCLA in 1964. ~YYY~ [2.5P] It is the purpose of this study to extend the linear matrix force and displacement methods to cover the nonlinear problem of general instability. The linearized small displacements buckling theorem as well as the large displacement approach important for the analysis of post-buckling behavior is developed. Thermal strains, or any kind of initial strains and stresses are included. This study is based on an elementary idealization scheme with simple geometries so that fine points related to the instability concept will not be overshadowed by unnecessary complexities.…