"The parallel developments of the Finite Element Methods in the 1950's and the engineering applications of stochastic processes in the 1940's provided a combined numerical analysis tool for the studies of dynamics of structures and structural systems under random loadings. In the open literature, there are books on statistical dynamics of structures and books on structural dynamics with chapters dealing with random response analysis. However, a systematic treatment of stochastic structural dynamics applying the finite element methods seems to be lacking. Aimed at advanced and specialist levels, the author presents and illustrates direct integration methods for analyzing the statistics of the response of structures to stochastic loads. The analysis methods are based on structural models represented via the Finite Element Method. In addition to stationary linear problems the text also addresses non-stationary excitation and systems with spatially stochastic property variations"-- Provided by publisher.

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Machine generated contents note: Dedication xi Preface xiii Acknowledgements xv 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Displacement Formulation Based Finite Element Method 2 1.1.1 Derivation of element equation of motion 2 1.1.2 Mass and stiffness matrices of uniform beam element 7 1.1.3 Mass and stiffness matrices of tapered beam element 9 1.2 Element Equations of Motion for Temporally and Spatially Stochastic Systems 13 1.3 Hybrid Stress Based Element Equations of Motion 14 1.3.1 Derivation of element equation of motion 15 1.3.2 Mass and stiffness matrices of uniform beam element 16 1.4 Incremental Variational Principle and Mixed Formulation Based Nonlinear Element Matrices 18 1.4.1 Incremental variational principle and linearization 19 1.4.2 Linear and nonlinear element stiffness matrices 23 1.5 Constitutive Relations and Updating of Configurations and Stresses 36 1.5.1 Elastic materials 36 1.5.2 Elasto-plastic materials with isotropic strain hardening 39 1.5.3 Configuration and stress updatings 45 1.6 Concluding Remarks 48 References 49 2. Spectral Analysis and Response Statistics of Linear Structural Systems 53 2.1 Spectral Analysis 53 2.1.1 Theory of spectral analysis 54 2.1.2 Remarks 56 2.2 Evolutionary Spectral Analysis 56 2.2.1 Theory of evolutionary spectra 56 2.2.2 Modal analysis and evolutionary spectra 57 2.3 Evolutionary Spectra of Engineering Structures 60 2.3.1 Evolutionary spectra of mast antenna structure 61 2.3.2 Evolutionary spectra of cantilever beam structure 67 2.3.3 Evolutionary spectra of plate structure 71 2.3.4 Remarks 73 2.4 Modal Analysis and Time-Dependent Response Statistics 76 2.4.1 Time-dependent covariances of displacements 77 2.4.2 Time-dependent covariances of displacements and velocities 77 2.4.3 Time-dependent covariances of velocities 78 2.4.4 Remarks 78 2.5 Response Statistics of Engineering Structures 79 2.5.1 Mast antenna structure 79 2.5.2 Truncated conical shell structures 81 2.5.3 Laminated composite plate and shell structures 87 References 94 3. Direct Integration Methods for Linear Structural Systems 97 3.1 Stochastic Central Difference Method 97 3.2 Stochastic Central Difference Method with Time Co-ordinate Transformation 100 3.3 Applications 102 3.3.1 Beam structures under base random excitations 102 3.3.2 Plate structures 109 3.3.3 Remarks 114 3.4 Extended Stochastic Central Difference Method and Narrow-band Force Vector 114 3.4.1 Extended stochastic central difference method 114 3.4.2 Beam structure under a narrow-band excitations 118 3.4.3 Concluding remarks 122 3.5 Stochastic Newmark Family of Algorithms 122 3.5.1 Deterministic Newmark family of algorithms 122 3.5.2 Stochastic version of Newmark algorithms 124 3.5.3 Responses of square plates under transverse random forces 126 References 128 4. Modal Analysis and Response Statistics of Quasi-linear Structural Systems 131 4.1 Modal Analysis of Temporally Stochastic Quasi-linear Systems 131 4.1.1 Modal analysis and bi-modal approach 132 4.1.2 Response statistics by Cumming's approach 137 4.2 Response Analysis Based on Melosh-Zienkiewicz-Cheung Bending Plate Finite Element 141 4.2.1 Simply-supported plate structure 142 4.2.2 Square plate clamped at all sides 150 4.2.3 Remarks 152 4.3 Response Analysis Based on High Precision Triangular Plate Finite Element 156 4.3.1 Simply-supported plate structures 157 4.3.2 Square plate clamped at all sides 159 4.4 Concluding Remarks 166 References 166 5. Direct Integration Methods for Response Statistics of Quasi-linear Structural Systems 169 5.1 Stochastic Central Difference Method for Quasi-linear Structural Systems 169 5.1.1 Derivation of covariance matrix of displacements 169 5.1.2 Column under external and parametric random excitations 171 5.2 Recursive Covariance Matrix of Displacements of Cantilever Pipe Containing Turbulent Fluid 174 5.2.1 Recursive covariance matrix of displacements 174 5.2.2 Cantilever pipe containing turbulent fluid 178 5.3 Quasi-linear Systems under Narrow-band Random Excitations 184 5.3.1 Recursive covariance matrix of pipe with mean flow and under narrow-band random excitation 184 5.3.2 Responses of pinned pipe with mean flow and under narrow-band random excitation 186 5.4 Concluding Remarks 188 References 190 6. Direct Integration Methods for Temporally Stochastic Nonlinear Structural Systems 191 6.1 Statistical Linearization Techniques 191 6.2 Symplectic Algorithms of Newmark Family of Integration Schemes 194 6.2.1 Deterministic symplectic algorithms 195 6.2.2 Symplectic members of stochastic version of Newmark family of algorithms 197 6.2.3 Remarks 199 6.3 Stochastic Central Difference Method with Time Co-ordinate Transformation and Adaptive Time Schemes 199 6.3.1 Issues in general nonlinear analysis of shells 200 6.3.2 Time-dependent variances and mean squares of responses 207 6.3.3 Time co-ordinate transformation and adaptive time schemes 210 6.4 Outline of steps in computer program 211 6.5 Large Deformations of Plate and Shell Structures 213 6.5.1 Responses of cantilever plate structure 213 6.5.2 Responses of clamped spherical cap 221 6.6 Concluding Remarks 224 References 226 7. Direct Integration Methods for Temporally and Spatially Stochastic Nonlinear Structural Systems 231 7.1 Perturbation Approximation Techniques and Stochastic Finite Element Methods 232 7.1.1 Stochastic finite element method 232 7.1.2 Statistical moments of responses 236 7.1.3 Solution procedure and computational steps 237 7.1.4 Concluding remarks 241 7.2 Stochastic Central Difference Methods for Temporally and Spatially Stochastic Nonlinear Systems 241 7.2.1 Temporally and spatially homogeneous stochastic nonlinear systems 242 7.2.2 Temporally and spatially non-homogeneous stochastic nonlinear systems 248 7.3 Finite Deformations of Spherical Shells with Large Spatially Stochastic Parameters 251 7.3.1 Spherical cap with spatially homogeneous properties 252 7.3.2 Spherical cap with spatially non-homogeneous properties 254 7.4 Closing Remarks 255 References 257 Appendices 1A Mass and Stiffness Matrices of Higher Order Tapered Beam Element 261 1B Consistent Stiffness Matrix of Lower Order Triangular Shell Element 267 1B.1 Inverse of Element Generalized Stiffness Matrix 267 1B.2 Element Leverage Matrices 268 1B.3 Element Component Stiffness Matrix Associated with Torsion 271 References 276 1C Consistent Mass Matrix of Lower Order Triangular Shell Element 277 Reference 280 2A Eigenvalue Solution 281 References 282 2B Derivation of Evolutionary Spectral Densities and Variances of Displacements 283 2B.1 Evolutionary Spectral Densities Due to Exponentially Decaying Random Excitations 283 2B.2 Evolutionary Spectral Densities Due to Uniformly Modulated Random Excitations 286 2B.3 Variances of Displacements 288 References 297 2C Time-dependent Covariances of Displacements 299 2D Covariances of Displacements and Velocities 311 2E Time-dependent Covariances of Velocities 317 2F Cylindrical Shell Element Matrices 323 3A Deterministic Newmark Family of Algorithms 327 Reference 331 Index 333 .

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Displacement Formulation-Based Finite Element Method; 1.1.1 Derivation of element equation of motion; 1.1.2 Mass and stiffness matrices of uniform beam element; 1.1.3 Mass and stiffness matrices of tapered beam element; 1.2 Element Equations of Motion for Temporally and Spatially Stochastic Systems; 1.3 Hybrid Stress-Based Element Equations of Motion; 1.3.1 Derivation of element equation of motion; 1.3.2 Mass and stiffness matrices of uniform beam element.

1.4 Incremental Variational Principle and Mixed Formulation-Based Nonlinear Element Matrices1.4.1 Incremental variational principle and linearization; 1.4.2 Linear and nonlinear element stiffness matrices; 1.5 Constitutive Relations and Updating of Configurations and Stresses; 1.5.1 Elastic materials; 1.5.2 Elasto-plastic materials with isotropic strain hardening; 1.5.3 Configuration and stress updatings; 1.6 Concluding Remarks; References; 2. Spectral Analysis and Response Statistics of Linear Structural Systems; 2.1 Spectral Analysis; 2.1.1 Theory of spectral analysis; 2.1.2 Remarks.

2.2 Evolutionary Spectral Analysis2.2.1 Theory of evolutionary spectra; 2.2.2 Modal analysis and evolutionary spectra; 2.3 Evolutionary Spectra of Engineering Structures; 2.3.1 Evolutionary spectra of mast antenna structure; 2.3.2 Evolutionary spectra of cantilever beam structure; 2.3.3 Evolutionary spectra of plate structure; 2.3.4 Remarks; 2.4 Modal Analysis and Time-Dependent Response Statistics; 2.4.1 Time-dependent covariances of displacements; 2.4.2 Time-dependent covariances of displacements and velocities; 2.4.3 Time-dependent covariances of velocities; 2.4.4 Remarks.

2.5 Response Statistics of Engineering Structures2.5.1 Mast antenna structure; 2.5.2 Truncated conical shell structures; 2.5.3 Laminated composite plate and shell structures; References; 3. Direct Integration Methods for Linear Structural Systems; 3.1 Stochastic Central Difference Method; 3.2 Stochastic Central Difference Method with Time Co-ordinate Transformation; 3.3 Applications; 3.3.1 Beam structures under base random excitations; 3.3.2 Plate structures; 3.3.3 Remarks; 3.4 Extended Stochastic Central Difference Method and Narrow-band Force Vector.

3.4.1 Extended stochastic central difference method3.4.2 Beam structure under narrow-band excitations; 3.4.3 Concluding remarks; 3.5 Stochastic Newmark Family of Algorithms; 3.5.1 Deterministic Newmark family of algorithms; 3.5.2 Stochastic version of Newmark algorithms; 3.5.3 Responses of square plates under transverse random forces; References; 4. Modal Analysis and Response Statistics of Quasi-linear Structural Systems; 4.1 Modal Analysis of Temporally Stochastic Quasi-linear Systems; 4.1.1 Modal analysis and bi-modal approach; 4.1.2 Response statistics by Cumming's approach.