Matrix Structural Analysis, With MASTAN2, 2nd Edition

The first edition was highly regarded for the manner and the extent in which it covered the basic concepts and procedures of linear analysis of frameworks by matrix methods, underlying theories of elasticity and the principles of virtual work, and application issues such as the solution of linear equations and the treatment of constraints. These features have been retained and strengthened by editing to improve clarity and elimination of a few topics that have proved to be of minor interest.

In addition, this edition accounts for changes in the use and the teaching of matrix structural analysis that have taken place in the past twenty years. It incorporates advances in the art of analysis that are regarded as suitable for use in structural engineering design practice now and of increasing importance in the years just ahead. Chief among these are an introduction to nonlinear analysis and an interactive computer graphics computer program.