Changes in CE 371

                                                                                 Engineering Faculty Document No. 12-05

                                                                                                                   February 23, 2006

TO:                 The Faculty of the College of Engineering

FROM:           The Faculty of the School of Civil Engineering

RE:                 Changes in CE 371 Course Description and Prerequisite

From:              CE 371 – Structural Analysis I

Sem. 1 and 2, Class 3, Cr. 3.

Prerequisite: CE 270 or 273.   Authorized equivalent courses or consent of instructor may be used in satisfying course prerequisites.

Determination of reactions, shears, and bending moments; determination of deflections (emphasis on method of virtual work); force method of analysis; basis of direct stiffness method; analysis of beams and plane frames and trusses by computer; verification of computer-predicted behavior of structures by hand computation; loading for effect.

To:                  CE 371 – Structural Analysis I

Sem. 1 and 2, Class 3, Cr. 3.

Prerequisite: CE 270.   Authorized equivalent courses or consent of instructor may be used in satisfying course prerequisites.

Stress resultants (reactions, axial forces, shear forces, and bending moments) for beams and framed structures.  Deflections of beams and frames by geometric methods (moment-area theorems and applications; conjugate beam analogy).  Analysis of statically indeterminate beams and frames by the flexibility method.  Analysis of statically indeterminate beams and frames by classical stiffness methods: slope deflection and moment distribution.  Influence functions and their applications.

Reason:          To provide an updated course description and prerequisite.