Elishakoff Isaac E (Florida Atlantic Univ Usa)
Elishakoff Isaac E (Florida Atlantic Univ Usa) - Probabilistic Methods In The Theory Of Structures: Strength Of Materials Random Vibrations And Random Buckling - Paperback
Elishakoff Isaac E (Florida Atlantic Univ Usa) - Probabilistic Methods In The Theory Of Structures: Strength Of Materials Random Vibrations And Random Buckling - Paperback
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Description: The first edition of this book appeared over three decades ago (Wiley - Interscience 1983) whereas the second one saw light on the verge of new millennium (Dover 1999). This is third corrected and expanded edition that appears in conjunction with its companion volume Probabilistic Methods in the Theory of Structures: Complete Worked - Through Solutions. Thus the reader is able to both get acquainted with the theoretical material and be able to master some of the problems following Chinese dictum: I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand Confucius. The main idea of the book lies in the fact that three topics: probabilistic strength of materials random vibrations and probabilistic buckling are presented in a single package allowing one to see the forest in between the trees. Indeed these three topics usually are presented in separate manners in different specialized books. Here the reader gets a feeling of true unity of the subject at large in order to appreciate that in the end what one wants is reliability of the structure in conjunction with its operating conditions. As the author describes in the Preface of the second edition this book was not conceived ab initio as a book that author strived to compose. Rather it was forced as it were upon me due to two reasons. One was rather a surprising but understandable requirement in the venerable Delft University of Technology The Netherlands to prepare the lecture notes for students with the view of reducing skyrocketing costs of acquisition of textbooks by the students. The other one was an unusually warm acceptance of the notes that the author prepared while at Delft University of Technology and later in Haifa at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology by the legendary engineering scientist Warner Tjardus Koiter (1914 1997). The energy necessary to prepare the second and third editions came from enthusiastic reviews that appeared in various sources. Author embraced the simplicity of exposition as the main virtue following Isaac Newton's view that " Truth is ever to be found in simplicity and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
Title: Probabilistic Methods In The Theory Of Structures: Strength Of Materials Random Vibrations And Random Buckling
Author(s): Elishakoff Isaac E (Florida Atlantic Univ Usa)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Barcode: 9789813149854
Pages: 524 Pages
Publication Date: 5/24/2017
Category: Structural Engineering
Description: The first edition of this book appeared over three decades ago (Wiley - Interscience 1983) whereas the second one saw light on the verge of new millennium (Dover 1999). This is third corrected and expanded edition that appears in conjunction with its companion volume Probabilistic Methods in the Theory of Structures: Complete Worked - Through Solutions. Thus the reader is able to both get acquainted with the theoretical material and be able to master some of the problems following Chinese dictum: I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand Confucius. The main idea of the book lies in the fact that three topics: probabilistic strength of materials random vibrations and probabilistic buckling are presented in a single package allowing one to see the forest in between the trees. Indeed these three topics usually are presented in separate manners in different specialized books. Here the reader gets a feeling of true unity of the subject at large in order to appreciate that in the end what one wants is reliability of the structure in conjunction with its operating conditions. As the author describes in the Preface of the second edition this book was not conceived ab initio as a book that author strived to compose. Rather it was forced as it were upon me due to two reasons. One was rather a surprising but understandable requirement in the venerable Delft University of Technology The Netherlands to prepare the lecture notes for students with the view of reducing skyrocketing costs of acquisition of textbooks by the students. The other one was an unusually warm acceptance of the notes that the author prepared while at Delft University of Technology and later in Haifa at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology by the legendary engineering scientist Warner Tjardus Koiter (1914 1997). The energy necessary to prepare the second and third editions came from enthusiastic reviews that appeared in various sources. Author embraced the simplicity of exposition as the main virtue following Isaac Newton's view that " Truth is ever to be found in simplicity and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
Title: Probabilistic Methods In The Theory Of Structures: Strength Of Materials Random Vibrations And Random Buckling
Author(s): Elishakoff Isaac E (Florida Atlantic Univ Usa)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Barcode: 9789813149854
Pages: 524 Pages
Publication Date: 5/24/2017
Category: Structural Engineering
