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Zdenek P. Bazant and Luigi Cedolin, Stability of structures, World Scientific Publishing, 2010, 1011 pages

Subtitle: elastic, inelastic, fracture, and damage theories
First Edition: 1991 Oxford University Press
Second Edition: 2003 Dover Publications
Third Edition: 2010 World Scientific

Exploration of principles and applications of stability analysis emphasizes nonelastic stability. Topics include modern stability problems of fracture and damage, thermodynamic principles of stability in irreversible systems, viscoelastic and viscoplastic buckling, other key areas. Numerous examples; 700 exercise problems.

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