Structural Analysis : A Unified Classical and Matrix Approach

The fifth edition of this comprehensive textbook combines and develops concurrently, both classical and matrix-based methods of structural analysis.
A new introductory chapter on structural analysis modelling has been added. The suitability of modelling structures as beams, plane or space frames and trusses, plane grids or assemblages of finite elements is discussed in this chapter, along with idealisation of loads, anticipated deformations, sketching deflected shapes, and bending moment diagrams. With new solved examples and problems added, the book now has over 100 worked examples and more than 350 problems with answers. A new companion website contains computer programs that can serve as optional aids in studying and in engineering practice: www.sponpress.com/civeng/support.htm.
Structural Analysis: A Unified Classical and Matrix Approach, translated into six languages, is a textbook of great international renown, and is recommended by many civil and structural engineering lecturers to their students due to its clear and thorough style and content

Amin Ghali is Emeritus Professor in the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Calgary. His research is mainly related to concrete structures and he is co-inventor of Stud Shear Reinforcement. He is the main author of Concrete Structures, 4th ed, also published by Taylor & Francis.

Adam Neville is an authority on concrete and concrete structures. He was formerly Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dundee.