Lecture that meets 3 times per week for 50 minutes per meeting for 15 weeks
Specific course information
Catalog description: Determination of deflections by the method of virtual work; analysis of trusses, continuous beams, and frames by direct stiffness method; approximate methods of analysis.
Prerequisites: Undergraduate level CCE 37100 Minimum Grade of D-
Course status: Technical Elective
Specific goals for the course
Student learning outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course the student shall be able to:
Use approximate methods of analysis to estimate forces/moments in planar structural systems (trusses and frame structures)
Apply principle of virtual work (using virtual forces) to find displacements/rotations in structures.
Analyze beams and frame structures using direct stiffness method
Relationship of course to program outcomes
Outcome 1: An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
Outcome 5: An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.
Topics
INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW OF BASIC CONCEPTS IN STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Equilibrium conditions
Statical determinacy/indeterminacy
Kinematic indeterminacy (degree of freedom)
APPROXIMATE METHODS IN STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Trusses
Moment-frame building systems under vertical loads
Moment-frame building systems: portal method and cantilever method
WORK-ENERGY METHODS IN STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Conservative systems
Strain energy due to axial, bending, shear, torsional forces and deformation
Using real work to find real deflection
VIRTUAL WORK METHODS IN STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Using virtual forces to find real deflections
Deflections due to temperature changes, member misfits, settlements
Betti’s law & Maxwell’s law of reciprocal deflections
DISPLACEMENT METHOD (STIFFNESS METHOD) OF STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Truss element; beam element; frame element
Stiffness influence coefficients
Local coordinates versus global coordinates; coordinate transformations
Fixed end forces/moments
Formation of the global analysis equations
General assembly procedure
Direct stiffness analysis of planar truss systems, frame systems
Computer implementation (introduction to structural analysis software)
