TY - BOOK AU - Stavridis,L.T.(Leonidas T.) TI - Structural systems : behaviour and design SN - 9780727741059 AV - TA345 STA KW - Structural design. KW - Structural analysis (Engineering) KW - Data processing N1 - Includes index; 1. Introductory concepts -- 2. The use of equilibrium in finding the state of stre and deformation (statically determinate structures) -- 3. The handling of deformations for determining the stress state in framed structures (statically indeterminate structures) -- 4. Simply supported beams -- 5. Continuous beams -- 6. Frames -- 7. The influence of deformations on the state of stress -- elastic stability -- 8. Arches -- 9. Cable structures -- 10. Grids -- 11. Plates -- 12. Shells -- 13. Thin-walled beams -- 14. Box girders N2 - Bringing together a wide array of structural types and covering the behaviour and design of both steel and reinforced concrete (prestressing inclusive), the author employs an integrated qualitative and quantitative approach to the examination of each structural element ER -