Basic Principles of Plates and Slabs for Safer and More Cost-Effective Structures provides a wide-ranging account of the theoretical aspects of plate and slab theory.

Features:

• Discusses kinematics and statics, theories of elastic and plastic plates and slabs
• Details a discussion of what criteria should be met by a construction method
• A vital element of engineering design

Contents

• Review - the change from one to two dimensions
• Statics and kinematics of plate bending
• Elastic plates
• Plastic plates (Solid metal plates; Reinforced concrete slabs; Plates and slabs, the comparison method - lower bounds)
• Optimal plates
• Construction and design, a case for new technology

Index

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