Abstract

Structural analysis comprises the set of physical laws and mathematics required to study and predict the behaviour of structures. This book gathers and presents current research in the field of structural analysis across a broad spectrum of topics. Discussions in this compilation include: evaluating seismic safety using non-linear structural analysis; a structural analysis of how art is made; the structure and function of vegetal ecosystems in semiarid regions of North-eastern Mexico; using a covariance structural analysis as a method for supporting efforts to improve employee motivation; and a method for solving linear algebraic equation sets in FE analysis software.