Structural analysis i

Syllabus

Class Schedule:

Lectures: Saturday-Monday, 9:00-10:30
Office hours: Saturday 10:30-11:00
TA: Monday, 12:00-13:00

Final Grades:

Homework 15%
Mid-term exam 35%
Final exam 50%

Exam Dates:

Mid-term: Saturday – Ordibehesht 13th - 9:00-12:00

Final: Tir 7th - 9:00-12:00

Organization of Course:

  • Introduction: Aspects of structural analysis, Classification of structures, their components, and supports

  • Determinacy and stability of structures

  • Analysis of statically determinate structures: Beams, frames and trusses

  • Shear and moment diagrams in determinate beams and frames

  • Elastic deformation of beams: Double integration method, Moment-area theorems, Conjugate-beam method

  • Energy methods: Internal work and external work, Unit-load method, Castigliano's theorem

  • Maxwell’s Theorem and Betti’s Law

  • Influence lines for determinate structures: Beams, frames and trusses

  • Analysis of indeterminate structures by Force Method: Method of consistent deformations

Texts:

1- Hibbeler, Russell C. Structural analysis. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2014.
2- Hsieh, Yuan-Yu. Elementary theory of structures. Pearson Prentice Hall, 1995.
3- Norris, C. H., J. B. Wilbur, S. Utku. Elementary Structural Analysis,  McGraw Hill, 1976.
4- Wang, Chu-Kia, Chu-Kia Wang. Intermediate structural analysis. McGraw Hill, 1982.
5- Leet, Kenneth, Chia-Ming Uang, and Anne M. Gilbert. Fundamentals of structural analysis. McGraw Hill, 2010.

      

 

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