W. T. Koiter’s Elastic Stability of Solids and Structures

This book covers elastic stability of solids and structures, Warner Koiter's area of special expertise.

Arnold M. A. van der Heijden (Edited by)

9780521515283, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 August 2008

240 pages
26.1 x 18.3 x 2.2 cm, 0.76 kg

This book deals with the elastic stability of solids and structures. It begins with fundamental aspects of stability, relating the basic notions of dynamic stability to more traditional quasi-static approaches. The book is concerned not only with buckling, or linear instability, but most importantly with nonlinear post-buckling behavior and imperfection-sensitivity. After laying out the general theory, Koiter applies the theory to a number of applications, with a chapter devoted to each. These include a variety of beam, plate, and shell structural problems and some basic continuum elasticity problems. Koiter's classic results on the nonlinear buckling and imperfection-sensitivity of cylindrical and spherical shells are included. The treatments of both the fundamental aspects and the applications are completely self contained. This book was recorded as a detailed set of notes by Arnold van der Heijden from W. T. Koiter's last set of lectures on stability theory, at TU Delft.

1. Stability
2. Continuous elastic systems
3. Applications.

Subject Areas: Mechanics of fluids [TGMF], Mechanics of solids [TGMD], Mechanical engineering [TGB], Mechanical engineering & materials [TG]