**Meet the editor**

Dr Safa Bozkurt Coşkun got both his BSc and his MSc degrees in Civil Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. He received his PhD in the field of Engineering Sciences in 2003 from the same University. He worked in the Department of Civil Engineering in Niğde University between 2004 and 2009. He has been working in the Department of Civil Engi-

neering in Kocaeli University since 2009. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering in the same University. His research interests include applied mathematics in engineering, vibration and stability theory, heat transfer, multiphase flow in porous media, fluid-structure interaction problems and finite and boundary element analyses. His researches have appeared in scientific journals such as Engineering Structures, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Applied Thermal Engineering, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Engineering Computations, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Mathematical Problems in Engineering and Mathematical Modeling and Analysis. He is also the co-author of a chapter in the book entitled: "Advances in Vibration Analysis Research" which was published by InTech in 2011.

Contents

**Preface VII** 

Karam Maalawi

Huu-Tai Thai

Chapter 3 **Vibration Method in Stability** 

Jen-San Chen and Wei-Chia Ro

Chapter 4 **Advanced Analysis of Space Steel Frames 65** 

Chapter 5 **Analytical, Numerical and Experimental Studies** 

**Members with Pinned Ends 91** 

Chapter 6 **Elastic Stability Analysis of Euler Columns** 

Safa Bozkurt Coşkun and Baki Öztürk

Chapter 1 **Dealing with Imperfection Sensitivity** 

Richard Degenhardt, Alexander Kling,

Chapter 2 **Stability, Dynamic and Aeroelastic Optimization** 

**of Composite Structures Prone to Buckling 1** 

Rolf Zimmermann, Falk Odermann and F.C. de Araújo

**of Functionally Graded Composite Structures 17** 

**Analysis of Planar Constrained Elastica 43** 

**on Stability of Three-Segment Compression** 

**Using Analytical Approximate Techniques 115** 

Seval Pinarbasi Cuhadaroglu, Erkan Akpinar, Fuad Okay, Hilal Meydanli Atalay and Sevket Ozden
