Download or read book Exact Analysis Of Structures With Periodicity Using U-transformation written by Hon Chuen Chan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-01-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces an analytical method, the U-transformation method, for the exact analysis of structures with the periodic property. The physical meaning of U-transformation is fully explained and the application of this technique to derive exact analytical solutions for a wide variety of structures with the periodic property is thoroughly illustrated. The book also provides useful exact and explicit formulas for many practical engineering problems. Many of these solutions are new results that have just appeared in international journals. The practical engineering structures considered in the book include continuous beams, stiffened plates, trusses, grillages, double layer grids and so on.