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Fundamentals of Structural Analysis

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I was given this text by the publisher. Ordinarily "every structural analysis text is the same" and there is no reason to change texts. But not this time. I am truly impressed by this text. It is very broad, in the sense that it manages to teach classical structural analysis while always relating it well to real world problems. It even manages to make the current IBC code understandable (which is amazing because that book is utterly unreadable). This is an excellent text

This book goes into detail about the fundementals of structural analysis but the expamples and explanations can be a bit tricky. They do not show the work done but just show the final product. The examples are not outlined and are not thoroughly explained in detail.

Thanks for the book. It is in great shape! Got here on time and without any issues. It does not have any damage or problems.

Great book. It helps to have a good teacher also and that's why I assume some are giving it bad reviews. Good examples. Explains steps for deriving certain formulas.

A very good book for Structural Analysis,
Been on UC Berkeley's program for some time now.
Gained a lot of info and details from this book.

I was assigned this book in a course taught by one of the authors. The book is great if you can patiently sit down and work through a chapter. Eight years after taking the course I find myself coming back to it for reality checks after using professional analysis programs.

After working for six years, I used this book to study for the SE exam and it helped me infinitely better than review manuals in terms of analysis. I wouldn't rely on this text for code (another reviewer complained about wind loads) but the wind, traffic, and impact load sections are still somewhat helpful. The main point of this book is analysis, and I highly recommend it.

Grammatical and spelling errors coupled with a severe lack of examples make this one of the hardest texts to follow to date in my college career. This has got to be one of the worst textbooks I have ever had the displeasure of having to use in my studies.

This was a textbook I had to get for a class, not too much to say about it, its a textbook.

Well frankly I didn't much care for this text. I found the examples to be both sparse and lacking. I was particularly disappointed with the section on wind loading and the section covering the various methods for analyzing indeterminate frames. Both of which I found to be insufficient and confusing. If you are assigned this text, then, I suggest that you either acquire solutions for the unassigned problems (to use as examples) or try to find a supplemental text. On the other hand, this text offers plenty of challenging problems for you to work. If you have already taken the class and know the subject, but wish to hone your engineering skills, then this is a good book to practice with.

The product was send in time and it was like I want it. Hardcover edition and U.S. edition