Dr. Jerome J. Connor
is Professor of Civil Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include computational mechanics, structural analysis, motion based structural design, and novel design methodologies for structural systems and has taught courses in computational mechanics and structural engineering. In recent years Connor's work has involved motion based design and damage assessment of engineering materials and he is directing a number of projects related to the applications of structural control to large civil structures as well as investigating methods to quantify damage in engineering materials.


Dr. Susan Faraji
has been Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell since 1984. Dr. Faraji has close to three decades of teaching, research, publication, and consulting experience and has taught a wide range of courses at the undergraduateand at the graduate level, such as Concrete Design, Steel Design, Bridge Design, Seismic Design, Concrete Design, Finite Elements, Structural Dynamics, and Behavior of Structures. Her professional work involves the analysis, design (using the latest design codes), and computer modeling of a wide range of structures. She has worked on more than 30 bridges and on aircraft, elevators, pontoons, ramps, concrete parking garages, domes, culverts, retaining walls, and steel and concrete frame buildings.

Adds a new chapter on limit analysis;

Emphasizes problem-based understanding of structural behavior;

Organizes chapters by structural types;

Provides balanced, seamless treatment of both classic and contemporary computer-based analysis methods, covering both elastic and inelastic behavior;

Reinforces student understanding with extensive, updated sample problems and detailed solutions to problems of structural analysis;

Cultivates intuitive thinking about structural behavior;

Incorporates input data operable with numerous widely used engineering design software packages.

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Part I - Statically Determinate Structures.- 1.Introduction to Structural Engineering.- 2.Statically Determinate Truss Structures.- 3.Statically Determinate Beams.- 4.Statically Determinate Plane Frames.- 5. Cable Structures.- 6.Statically Determinate Curved Members.- 7.Shallow Foundations.- 8. Vertical Retaining Wall Structures.- Part II- Statically Indeterminate Structures.- [...] Force Method.- [...] Displacement Method.- 11.Approximate Methods for Estimating Forces in Statically Indeterminate Structures.- 12. Finite Element Displacement Method for Framed Structures.- Part III- Practice of Structural Engineering.- [...]-span Horizontal Structures.- 14.Lateral Load Issues for Buildings.- 15.Vertical Loads on Multistory Buildings.- 15.Vertical Loads on Multistory Buildings.- 16.Inelastic Response of Structures.