CS3000 - Structural Analysis
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | School of Engineering |
Determinate structures - Review of beam theory and deflections of beams and frames by integration and moment area methods; Beam deflections by conjugate beam method; Deflections of beams, trusses and frames by energy methods; Virtual work principle, virtual force method, virtual displacement method, thermals effects, Maxwell's and Betti's Laws, Castigliano's theorems; Influence lines, Muller-Breslau's principle. Indeterminate structures - Degree of indeterminancy, external and internal indeterminancies, compatibility conditions, superposition and consistent deformation method, virtual work method, Castigliano's method, applications to beams, frames and trusses; Slope deflection method; Moment distribution method. Plastic design of steel frames; stress-strain curve for steel, moment curvature relationship, plastic modulus of section. Buckling of elastic structures, Euler loads, buckling modes, long and short columns, secant formula; tangent modulus and secant modulus methods.
Learning Outcomes
- undertaking structural engineering problem identification, formulation and solution;
- in-depth technical competence in calculating deflections in beams, frames and trusses using appropriate methods;
- ability to solve a variety of indeterminate beam, frame and truss problems.
| Prerequisites: | CS2001 and CS2003 and MA2000 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2011 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Assoc. Professor John Ginger. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50% - 70%); on-course assessment, some of which may be invigiilated (30% - 50%). |
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