CE 579: STRUCTURAL STABILITY AND DESIGN


COURSE RESOURCES


1) COURSE CURRICULUM


2) SUMMARY OF LECTURES - PART 1


   TOPICS INCLUDED:

   
    Elastic Buckling and Stability

   
    Second-order Differential Equations for Members


    Elastic Buckling of Columns


    Inelastic Buckling of Columns


    ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:  


       Excel sheet for Inelastic Column Buckling Analysis


       
Excel Sheet for Column Elastic Buckling Analysis



       SSRC COLUMN CURVES HANDOUT



3) SUMMARY OF LECTURES - PART 2

          TOPICS INCLUDED:

          Beam Buckling

          Finite Difference Method for Beam Buckling Analysis

          Eigenvalue Extraction Method

          Handout - Finite Difference Method for Beam Buckling - uniform moment

          Handout - Finite Difference Method for Beam Buckling - non-uniform moment - removed

          Handout - Inverse Power Iteration Method Example

          Homework - Finite Difference Method for Beam Buckling - uniform - other boundary conditions


4) SUMMARY OF LECTURES - PART 3


          TOPICS INCLUDED:

          Beam-Column Instability (in-plane and out-of-plane)

          P-M Interaction Curves accounting for both

          ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: 

      
        EXCEL SHEET SHOWING IN-PLANE AND OUT-OF-PLANE INTERACTION OF BEAM COLUMNS



5) SUMMARY OF LECTURES - PART 4

          TOPICS INCLUDED:

          Frame Buckling - Elastic

          Geometric Stiffness Matrix for Beam-Column Members

          Frame Eigenvalue Analysis

          Matlab Computer Program

                Files - Main Program
                Subroutine - Frame
                Suboutine - Frameg
                Subroutine - addk


6) SUMMARY OF LECTURES - PART 5

          AISC SPECIFICATIONS FOR STABILITY ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

          CHAPTER C of SPECIFICATION

          APPENDIX 7 - Direct Analysis Method

 

REFERENCES:


1) AISC 2005 SPECIFICATIONS - LINK


2) AISC TORSION GUIDE - (Class use only)


3) AISC SPECIFICATIONS


4) AISC SPECIFICATIONS COMMENTARY



Homework No. 1    Due: 9/10/14
Homework No. 2    Due: 9/15/14
Homework No. 3   Due: 9/24/14
Homework No. 4   Due: 10/10/2014

Exam no. 1 - Due: 11/14/2014