Structural Analysis

Structural Analysis is a basic course for undergraduate students with majors of civil engineering, engineering mechanics, flight vehicle design, mechanical engineering, naval architecture and ocean engineering etc., and is also an introductory course for undergraduates to learn and master the analysis and design of beam, truss, frame, arch and composite structures for buildings, bridges and flight vehicles and so on.
This textbook includes eight chapters, and covers introduction, kinematic analysis of plane member systems, analysis of statically determinate structures, principle of virtual work and deflection calculation, force method, displacement method, influence lines of structures under moving loads, and matrix displacement method.
Main features of this textbook lie in:
(1) strengthened the interestingness and readability, and increased brief introduction on the developmental history of structural analysis and the important figures;
(2) adopted the kinematic method to construct exactly and rapidly the influence lines of forces of statically indeterminate structures proposed by the author, and highlighted the energy principles and methods;
(3) increased introducing the backgrounds of engineering applications;
(4) from the viewpoints of history, methodology, aesthetic appreciation and creative thinking, inspected structural analysis and strived to cultivate the innovative talents.
This book is designed to serve as a textbook for students in fields such as civil engineering, engineering mechanics, flight vehicle design, mechanical engineering, and ocean engineering, as well as a helpful reference for engineers and professionals in related fields.

Dixiong YANG is a Professor of Engineering Mechanics at Dalian University of Technology, China. In 2004, he received a Ph.D. degree in mechanics from the Dalian University of Technology. His research interests involve the seismic design and vibration-reduction of engineering structures, structural optimization, random vibration and reliability analysis, and computational mechanics. He achieved the second-class award of the National Science and Technology Progress Prize in 2017, and the first-class award of the Natural Science Prize for the Ministry of Education in 2013. He taught the structural analysis course for 18 years and achieved several awards for outstanding teaching at the Dalian University of Technology. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed journal papers and 3 books. He is also the deputy editor of the third edition of the engineering mechanics branch for the civil engineering discipline of Encyclopedia of China and a member of the random vibration committee of the China Society of Vibration Engineering, the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, and the International Association of Computational Mechanics

Junfeng GU is an Associate Professor of Engineering Mechanics at Dalian University of Technology, China. He received a Ph.D. degree in mechanics from the Dalian University of Technology in 2009. Dr. Gu has devoted himself to the study of theory, simulation, and optimization during advanced molding and service of polymer and composite materials. His main research directions include structural optimization, polymer molding process optimization, polymer service behavior, medical polymer interface behavior, and intelligent optimization algorithm. He has published more than 50 academic journal papers and taught the structural analysis course for 8 years.

Lei YANG is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Dalian University of Technology, China. In 2014, he received a Ph.D. degree in flight vehicle design from Beihang University, China. From 2017 to 2019, he worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. His research interests involve the design of aircraft structures, mechanics of composite materials, and computational mechanics. He achieved the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by China Association for Science and Technology in 2017. Dr. Yang has published over 30 peer-reviewed journal papers and taught the structural analysis course for 7 years. He is a member of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Society of Composite Materials.

Jingjie CHEN is an Associate Professor of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at Dalian University of Technology, China. In 2011, she received a Ph.D. degree in design and manufacture of ships and marine structures from the Dalian University of Technology. Her research interests involve the strength, fatigue, and fracture of ship and marine engineering structures, ice ship collision, and the damaged structural ultimate strength analysis in polar regions. Dr. Chen taught the structural analysis course for 8 years and achieved one award for outstanding teaching at the Dalian University of Technology. She has published over 30 peerreviewed journal papers and one book.

Xiaofei HU is an Associate Professor of Engineering Mechanics at Dalian University of Technology, China. He received a Ph.D. degree in mechanics from the Dalian University of Technology in 2012. From 2013 to 2015, he worked as a senior engineer at Schlumberger in Beijing for developing and maintaining a finite element program package “IDEAS”. From 2015 to 2017, he moved to the National University of Singapore and worked as a research fellow under the supervision of Professor Tong Earn Tay. His study in Singapore focused on the modelling of the progressive failure in composite laminates using the extended finite element method. From 2017 to now, Dr. Hu moved back to the Dalian University of Technology. So far, he has published more than 50 journal papers and 1 book. He taught the structural analysis course for 6 years​.