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Viii Preface To The First Portuguese Edition

The document provides context for a Portuguese edition of a textbook on strength of materials and structural analysis. It summarizes several chapters that will cover topics like strain theory, constitutive laws of materials, analysis of structures, energy methods for framed structures, and slender members.

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Viii Preface To The First Portuguese Edition

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VIII

Preface to the First Portuguese Edition

is also used in the theory of strain, which is dealt with in the third chapter, the explanation of this theory may be restricted to the essential physical aspects of the deformation, since the merely tensorial conclusions may be drawn by analogy with the stress tensor. In this chapter, the physical approach adopted allows the introduction of notions whose mathematical description would be too complex and lengthy to be included in an elementary book. The nite strains and the integral conditions of compatibility in multiplyconnected bodies are examples of such notions. In the fourth chapter the basic phenomena which determine the relations between stresses and strains are explained with the help of physical models, and the constitutive laws in the simplest three-dimensional cases are deduced. The most usual theories for predicting the yielding and rupture of isotropic materials complete the chapter on the constitutive law of materials. In the remaining chapters, the topics traditionally included in the Strength of Materials discipline are expounded. Chapter ve describes the basic notions and general principles which are needed for the analysis and safety evaluation of structures. Chapters six to eleven contain the theory of slender members. The way this is explained is innovative in some aspects. As an example, an alternative Lagrangian formulation for the computation of displacements caused by bending, and the analysis of the error introduced by the assumption of innitesimal rotations when the usual methods are applied to problems where the rotations are not small, may be mentioned. The comparison of the usual methods for computing the deections caused by the shear force, clarifying some confusion in the traditional literature about the way as this deformation should be computed, is another example. Chapter twelve contains theorems about the energy associated with the deformation of solid bodies with applications to framed structures. This chapter includes a physical demonstration of the theorems of virtual displacements and virtual forces, based on considerations of energy conservation, instead of these theorems being presented without demonstration, as is usual in books on the Strength of Materials and Structural Analysis, or else with a lengthy mathematical demonstration. Although this book is the result of the author working practically alone, including the typesetting and the pictures (which were drawn using a selfdeveloped computer program), the author must nevertheless acknowledge the important contribution of his former students of Strength of Materials for their help in identifying parts in the texts that preceded this treatise that were not as clear as they might be, allowing their gradual improvement. The author must also thank Rui Cardoso for his meticulous work on the search for misprints and for the resolution of proposed exercises, and other colleagues, especially Rog erio Martins of the University of Porto, for their comments on the preceding texts and for their encouragement for the laborious task of writing a technical book. This book is also a belated tribute to the great Engineer and designer of large dams, Professor Joaquim Laginha Seram, who the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Coimbra had the honour to have as Professor

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