The Elastic Analysis of Flat Grillages
With Particular Reference to Ship Structures

First published in 1965, this book was written in response to the considerable changes that had taken place in shipbuilding techniques since 1945.

J. Clarkson (Author)

9780521090674, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 November 2008

156 pages
21.6 x 14 x 0.9 cm, 0.2 kg

First published in 1965, this book was written in response to the considerable changes that had taken place in shipbuilding techniques since 1945 and to the new scientific methods that were being increasingly adopted in a strongly competitive market. It describes the advances which had been made in one field of the design of ship structures, a field also of importance in the design of bridges and other rigid structures on land. A grillage is a structure of intersecting beams, usually attached to one side of a continuous plate panel, which is loaded normal to its surface. The decks, bottoms and bulkheads (vertical divisions) of ships are usually flat grillages, and this form of construction is also commonly used in the decks of bridges. The methods of plastic analysis are not directly applicable to plated grillage structures and Mr Clarkson has therefore discussed only elastic methods of design.

1. Introduction
2. Force method
3. Approximate Methods
4. Fourier Series Method
5. Solution by Displacement Method using Electronic Computer
6. Effects of Shear and Torsion
7. Ship Grillages
8. Welded Connections
9. Data Sheets for Simply Supported Grillages under a Single Concentrated Load
10. Minimum Weight Design for Concentrated Loads
11. Data Sheets for Uniform Pressure.

Subject Areas: Mathematics [PB]