Building on the author's Structural Mechanics Fundamentals, this text presents a complete and uniform treatment of the more advanced topics in structural mechanics, ranging from beam frames to shell structures, from dynamics to nonlinear analysis, from fracture mechanics to long-span and high-rise civil structures. Topics include: plane frames, statically indeterminate beam systems: Method of displacements, shells and membranes, finite element method, dynamics of discrete systems, dynamics of continuous systems, instability of elastic equilibrium, theory of plasticity, plane stress and plane strain conditions, mechanics of fracture, long-span structures, and high-rise buildings.

Alberto Carpinteri is Professor of Structural Mechanics at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Among his many awards he is Part President of the European Structural Integrity Society and of the International Association of Fracture Mechanics for Concrete and Concrete Structures; a Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the Member of the American Academy of Mechanics; Recipient of RILEM's Robert l'Hermite Medal, and of the JSME Medal of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.

1. Plane frames 2. Statically indeterminate beam systems: method of displacements 3. Plates and shells 4. Finite element method 5. Dynamics of discrete systems 6. Dynamics of continuous elastic systems 7. Buckling instability in slender, thin and shallow structures 8. Long-span structures: dynamics and buckling 9. High-rise structures: statics and dynamics 10. Theory of plasticity 11. Plane stress and plane strain conditions 12. Mechanics of fracture. Appendices