Prof. Dr. sc. techn. Peter Marti has been professor for theory of structures and structural design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich since 1990, lecturing in theory of structures and reinforced concrete. Peter Marti has served as chairman on various technical commissions, e.g. ACI-ASCE Joint Committee 445 Shear and Torsion and fib Commission 4 Modelling of Structural Behaviour and Design. He was also president of Swiss standards commission SIA 162 Concrete construction, project manager for Swisscodes and president of the Society for the Art of Civil Engineering. In his role as consulting engineer, reviewer and jury member for competitions, he is responsible for many challenging building, bridge and tunnel projects.

"Theory of Structures" is an excellent textbook. It is very rich in the individual topics covered. One special and importend feature that should be mentioned ist the many excellently prepared examples and exercises.... this is a wonderful textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses. In addition, it could be of immense value to those practicing engineers who wish to deepen their background knowledge or refresh fundamental issues.Ekkehard Ramm, University Stuttgart (in: Steel Construction 2/2014)

• I INTRODUCTIONPurpose and scope of theory of structuresHistorical backgroundII FUNDAMENTALSStructural designStructural analysis and dimensioningStatic relationshipsKinematic relationshipsConstitutive relationshipsEnergy methodsIII STATICALLY DETERMINATE FRAMED STRUCTURESStructural elements and topologyDetermining the forcesStress resultants and state diagramsInfluence linesIV DEFORMATIONS OF FRAMED STRUCTURESElementary deformationsSingle deformationsDeformation diagramsV STATICALLY INDETERMINATE FRAMED STRUCTURESForce methodDisplacement methodContinuaDiscontinuaVI NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS OF FRAMED STRUCTURESElastic-plastic systemsLimit analysisStabilityVII PLATES AND SHELLSPlatesSlabsFolded platesShellsAPPENDIXA1 DefinitionsA2 NotationA3 Properties of materialsA4 Geometrical properties of sectionsA5 Matrix algebraA6 Tensor calculusA7 Calculus of variationsREFERENCESINDEX

Prof. Dr. sc. techn. Peter Marti has been professor for theory of structures and structural design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich since 1990, lecturing in theory of structures and reinforced concrete. Peter Marti has served as chairman on various technical commissions, e.g. ACI-ASCE Joint Committee 445 Shear and Torsion and fib Commission 4 Modelling of Structural Behaviour and Design. He was also president of Swiss standards commission SIA 162 Concrete construction, project manager for Swisscodes and president of the Society for the Art of Civil Engineering. In his role as consulting engineer, reviewer and jury member for competitions, he is responsible for many challenging building, bridge and tunnel projects.

"Theory of Structures" is an excellent textbook. It is very rich in the individual topics covered. One special and importend feature that should be mentioned ist the many excellently prepared examples and exercises.... this is a wonderful textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses. In addition, it could be of immense value to those practicing engineers who wish to deepen their background knowledge or refresh fundamental issues.Ekkehard Ramm, University Stuttgart (in: Steel Construction 2/2014)

• I INTRODUCTIONPurpose and scope of theory of structuresHistorical backgroundII FUNDAMENTALSStructural designStructural analysis and dimensioningStatic relationshipsKinematic relationshipsConstitutive relationshipsEnergy methodsIII STATICALLY DETERMINATE FRAMED STRUCTURESStructural elements and topologyDetermining the forcesStress resultants and state diagramsInfluence linesIV DEFORMATIONS OF FRAMED STRUCTURESElementary deformationsSingle deformationsDeformation diagramsV STATICALLY INDETERMINATE FRAMED STRUCTURESForce methodDisplacement methodContinuaDiscontinuaVI NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS OF FRAMED STRUCTURESElastic-plastic systemsLimit analysisStabilityVII PLATES AND SHELLSPlatesSlabsFolded platesShellsAPPENDIXA1 DefinitionsA2 NotationA3 Properties of materialsA4 Geometrical properties of sectionsA5 Matrix algebraA6 Tensor calculusA7 Calculus of variationsREFERENCESINDEX

Prof. Dr. sc. techn. Peter Marti has been professor for theory of structures and structural design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich since 1990, lecturing in theory of structures and reinforced concrete. Peter Marti has served as chairman on various technical commissions, e.g. ACI-ASCE Joint Committee 445 Shear and Torsion and fib Commission 4 Modelling of Structural Behaviour and Design. He was also president of Swiss standards commission SIA 162 Concrete construction, project manager for Swisscodes and president of the Society for the Art of Civil Engineering. In his role as consulting engineer, reviewer and jury member for competitions, he is responsible for many challenging building, bridge and tunnel projects.

"Theory of Structures" is an excellent textbook. It is very rich in the individual topics covered. One special and importend feature that should be mentioned ist the many excellently prepared examples and exercises.... this is a wonderful textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses. In addition, it could be of immense value to those practicing engineers who wish to deepen their background knowledge or refresh fundamental issues.Ekkehard Ramm, University Stuttgart (in: Steel Construction 2/2014)

• I INTRODUCTIONPurpose and scope of theory of structuresHistorical backgroundII FUNDAMENTALSStructural designStructural analysis and dimensioningStatic relationshipsKinematic relationshipsConstitutive relationshipsEnergy methodsIII STATICALLY DETERMINATE FRAMED STRUCTURESStructural elements and topologyDetermining the forcesStress resultants and state diagramsInfluence linesIV DEFORMATIONS OF FRAMED STRUCTURESElementary deformationsSingle deformationsDeformation diagramsV STATICALLY INDETERMINATE FRAMED STRUCTURESForce methodDisplacement methodContinuaDiscontinuaVI NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS OF FRAMED STRUCTURESElastic-plastic systemsLimit analysisStabilityVII PLATES AND SHELLSPlatesSlabsFolded platesShellsAPPENDIXA1 DefinitionsA2 NotationA3 Properties of materialsA4 Geometrical properties of sectionsA5 Matrix algebraA6 Tensor calculusA7 Calculus of variationsREFERENCESINDEX