Fundamental of Structural Stability

The material contained in this text is ideally suited for postgraduate students in Civil, Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering. The topics presented in the text pertain to various aspects of elastic buckling and inelastic instability. The emphasis of the book is on the fundamental concepts and on the methodology developed through the years to solve structural stability problems. The book contains a detailed treatment of the different class of the instability phenomenon, elastic and inelastic stability analysis of columns, beams, beam-columns, frames, arches, plates and shells.