Stability Analysis of Space Structures

This book serves both as a textbook for postgraduate courses on stability analysis of space structures and a reference volume for engineers and scientists. We included some original derivations as well as many new research results not yet published in periodicals. The contents of this book contains fundamental of stability theory, different class of the instability phenomenon in space structures, static collapse analysis considering the nodal snap-through, static collapse analysis considering the member buckling phenomenon, dynamic collapse analysis considering dynamic propagation of a local nodal snap-through and member snap.