SOLUTIONS MANUAL TO ACCOMPANY MATRIX STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS ‘Second Edition William McGuire Cornell University Richard H. Gallagher Clarkson University Ronald D. Ziemian Bucknell University ® JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. NEW YORK «CHICHESTER * WEINHEIM BRISBANE # SINGAPORE * TORONTOSOLUTIONS MANUAL PREFACE ‘The material in this volume consists of solutions or answers to almost all of the problems in the second edition of our book MATRIX STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS except those in Chapter 8, Nothing is included on Chapter 8 because the problems in that chapter involve applications of classical theories that we believe have been illustrated adequately in the examples of the chapter or in the listed references ‘The problems of Chapters | ~ 7 cover linear elastic analysis and the principles of virtual work. Most of the problems in these chapters are the same as or similar to problems of the first edition, The nonlinear analysis problems of Chapters 9 and 10 have been solved using the program MASTAN2. In these chapters, we have tried to include information sufficient to illustrate the approach used and the consequent results, ie., the ‘model analyzed, deflected shapes, moment diagrams, key response data, etc. As noted in the text, in nonlinear analysis small differences between acceptable solutions may be expected. It should also be noted that whereas the problems deal with various types of structural behavior, for simplicity of illustration all practically significant effects have not been considered in all cases. For example, warping resistance is not included in problems involving torsion and the possibility of tension only members going slack in suspension systems has not been investigated. The problems of Chapters 11 and 12 pertain to computational methods for solving linear and nonlinear systems of equations. Some of the problems in Chapter 11 are the same or similar to problems in the first edition Chapter 13 includes problems related to special analysis procedures. A majority of the solutions to the problems in this chapter are provided with the exception of those requiring extensive algebraic or numerical manipulations, which we believe have been illustrated adequately in the examples of the chapter. For many of the problems in Chapters 11 — 13, the use of spreadsheets and software for numeric and symbolic computing is encouraged. We have tried to prepare a manual that will be helpful to instructors using the text. We have not, however, applied the same standards of checking and editing that we used in preparing the text itself, While we trust the solutions are accurate, we are sure that errors exist liam McGuire Ronald D. Ziemian