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CVEN 345 – Structures – 2008

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Abigail Stason

Lectures and Notes – 2008C

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Lecture videos Class Notes Materials covered
Class 1
Tuesday
345_08-26-08 Real Video
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345_08-26-08.pdf Introduction to course, tributary areas for beams and columns.
Class 2
Thursday
345_08-28-08 Real Video
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345_08-28-08.pdf Reductions in live loads, tributary areas, wind pressures, truck loadings.
Class 3
Tuesday
345_09-02-08 Real Video
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345_09-02-08.pdf Snow loads, turning distributed loads into equivalent concentrated loads, calculation of reactions on a somewhat more complex structure, how will use deflections to solve for statically indeterminate reactions.
Class 4
Thursday
345_09-04-08 Real Video
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345_09-04-08.pdf Truss analysis, method of joints, method of sections, zero force members.
Class 5
Tuesday
345_09-09-08 Real Video
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345_09-09-08.pdf Forces in trusses members by method of sections, Shear and moment diagrams, sketching of deflected beams, use of deflections to add additional equations to solve for forces in statically indeterminate structures.
Class 6
Thursday
345_09-11-08 Real Video
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345_09-11-08.pdf Construction of shear and moment diagrams using graphical integration, writing equations for the moment in a beam, sketching of deflected structures.
Class 7
Tuesday
Computer crash – no video 345_09-16-08.pdf Construction of moment diagrams for frames, deflected shapes, superposition
Class 8
Thursday
345_09-18-08 Real Video
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345_09-18-08.pdf Degree of indeterminacy of beams, frames, selection of primary structures from statically indeterminate structures, using consistent distortions to generate additional equations to solve for reactions on statically indeterminate structures.
Class 9
Tuesday
345_09-23-08 Real Video
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345_09-23-08.pdf Determinacy in structures, deflected shapes, removal of reactions to turn a statically indeterminate structure into a statically determinate structure, influence lines.
Class 10
Thursday
345_09-25-08 Real Video
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345_09-25-08.pdf More influence lines, construction of influence lines using the Muller-Breslau principle.
Class 11
Tuesday
345_09-30-08 Real Video
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345_09-30-08.pdf Determining where to place concentrated and uniform loads for maximum influence on a reaction, shear, or bending moment. How to calculate these values.
Class 12
Thursday
345_10-02-08 Real Video
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345_10-02-08.pdf Influence line for beam with pin, influence line for girders supporting floor systems, influence lines for trusses.
Class 13
Tuesday
345_10-07-08 Real Video
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345_10-07-08.pdf Multiple wheel loadings, truck loading, lane loading, increase/decrease method for multiple wheels, where to put wheels for absolute maximum moment in beam, impact factors.
Class 14
Thursday
Quiz A Quiz A Nada
Class 15
Tuesday
345_10-14-08 Real Video
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345_10-14-08.pdf Influence line for a truss, deflections of beams by direct integration, examples thereof.
Class 16
Thursday
345_10-16-08 Real Video
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345_10-16-08.pdf Deflections by Real Work, Virtual Work.
Class 17
Tuesday
345_10-21-08 Real Video
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345_10-21-08.pdf Using Virtual Work to determine deflections for beams and frames.
Class 18
Thursday
345_10-23-08 Real Video
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345_10-23-08.pdf Maxwell-Betti Law of reciprocal deflections, calculation of deflections in statically indeterminate beams.
Class 19
Tuesday
345_10-28-08 Real Video
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345_10-28-08.pdf Example problem solving for multiple reactions in a statically indeterminate beam.
Class 20
Thursday
345_10-30-08 Real Video
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345_10-30-08.pdf Example problem solving for multiple internal redundants in a statically indeterminate frame.
Class 21
Tuesday
345_11-04-08 Real Video
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345_11-04-08.pdf Solution for indeterminate structures using the Slope Deflection Method
Class 22
Thursday
345_11-06-08 Real Video
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345_11-06-08.pdf What to do with the end moments once you get them. Slope deflection methods for solving redundants in frames with side sway. Corresponding solution using flexibility methods.
Class 23
Tuesday
345_11-11-08 Real Video
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345_11-11-08.pdf Kinematic Indeterminacy, Influence lines to determine loading pattern for buildings and frames.
Class 24
Thursday
11/13/08
345_11-13-08 Real Video
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345_11-13-08.pdf Influence lines for shear and moments in frames, beams. Approximate analysis of statically indeterminate beams.
Class 25
Tuesday
11/18/08
Quiz B – no lecture Quiz B – no lecture Nada
Class 26
Thursday
11/20/08
345_11-20-08 Real Video
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345_11-20-08.pdf Pop quiz on influence lines for a statically indeterminate structure, analysis of statically indeterminate frames by the Portal and Cantilever Methods.
Class 27
Tuesday
11/25/08
345_11-25-08 Real Video
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345_11-25-08.pdf Review of Quiz B
Class 28
12/2/08
345_12-02-08 Real Video
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345_12-02-08.pdf Review of course for final exam – typical problems likely to appear on final.

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