Catalog Description: Special structures; matrix structural analysis; dynamic loads including wind and earthquake.
Pre-requisite(s):
CES 4100 or CES 4100C Structural Analysis I
Designation: Elective
Contribution of course to meeting the Professional Component:
| Math & Science Topic | 0.0 credit hours |
| Engineering Topics | 3.0 credit hours |
| General Education Topics | 0.0 credit hours |
| Class Schedule: | Laboratory Schedule: | ||
| Number of sessions per week | 2 | Number of sessions per week | N/A |
| Duration of each session | 75 mins | Duration of each session | N/A |
Course Objectives:
· Introduce principle of virtual displacements
· Introduce matrix methods for structural analysis.
· Prepare students for entry into structural engineering community and/or
graduate.
Topics:
· Visualization: Many of the problems encountered in this course are
three- dimensional and are intended to enhance visualization skills.
· Problem solving: Most of the problems in this class have more than
one way of getting to the right answer. Students must be able to think ahead
and identify the simplest solution.
· Critical Thinking: This class emphasizes and develops the student's
intuitive ability to judge the quality of answers.
· Computer Programming Skills: The class requires students to become
proficient at computer programming.
· Approximate methods for structural analysis.
· Stiffness and flexibility methods for structural analysis.
· Properties of stiffness matrix.
· Derivation of stiffness matrix.- 2-D and 3-D truss element- 2- D beam
element- 3-D beam- column element- Special elements
· Coordinate transformation in tow and three- dimensions.
· Assembly of global stiffness matrix
· Self-straining problems- Support settlement- Temperature effects
· Symmetry and Anti-symmetry
· Condensation
· Substructuring
· Principle of virtual displacements
· Shape functions and introduction to the finite element method
· Structural systems for lateral load resistance
Textbook(s):
· Matrix Structural Analysis; W. McGuire and R. H. Gallagher; John Wiley
and Sons Publishers, 1999.
Reference(s):
N/A
Relationship of the
course to Program Outcomes:
· This course is used to assess civil and environmental engineering program
outcomes number 1, 5, 6, 7, 8.
· It is also used to apply concepts learnt in program outcomes number
1, 5, 6, 7, 8.
· This course also addresses the Criterion a, c, e, f, g, j, k (from
the a-k list of ABET)