CVEN 345 – Theory of Structures

Lectures and Class Notes for 2017b
Summer Semester

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Class/Day	Lecture Videos (MP4)	Class Notes (Adobe .pdf)	Materials Covered
Week 1
Class 1 Wednesday 5/31/17	MP4	Class Notes	Introduction to class, Frame reactions in statically determinate structures, shear and moment diagrams for their members.
Class 2 Friday 6/2/17	MP4	Class Notes	FE Reference Manual – Counting to see if structure is stable/unstable, statically determinate/indeterminate. Drawing moment diagrams for the frame members, and writing equations for the moments in the frame members. Forces inside of truss members by Method of Joints, Zero force members.
Week 2
Class 3 Monday 6/5/17	MP4	Class Notes	Zero force members; Solving for forces in truss members using method of sections; Writing a moment equation for triangular loading on a member; Solving for reactions on a complex frame
Class 4 Wednesday 6/7/17	MP4	Class Notes	Review zero-force members  Statical determinacy/indeterminacy for beams and frames, Get MASTAN Introduction to changing a statically indeterminate structure into a statically determinate (primary) structure which can be solved by statics.
Class 5 Friday 6/9/17	MP4	Class Notes	Determining and plotting moments inside of statically determinate frames;  Solving for forces/moments inside a 1st degree statically indeterminate beam;  Solving for forces/moments inside a 2nd degree statically indeterminate beam; Solving for forces/moments inside of a 1st degree indeterminate frame.
Week 3
Class 6 Monday 6/12/17	MP4	Class Notes	Short discussion on Special Problem #2;  Writing moment equations M0, m1, m2, finding deflections for the moment diagrams obtained in Class 5’s work;
Class 7 Wednesday 6/14/17	MP4	Class Notes
Class 8 Friday 6/16/17	MP4 Video failed.  Rats.	Class Notes	Naming convention for D10, D20, d11, d12, d21, d22, etc. Deflections using direct integration.
Miscellaneous			Help with problems SP1, SP2, SP2a, SP3&SP2c, SP3
Week 4
Class 9 Monday 6/19/17	MP4	Class Notes	Deflections using virtual work.
Class 10 Wednesday 6/21/17	MP4	Class Notes	Principal of Virtual Forces for Deformable Bodies – Virtual Work, Unit Load Method, Virtual Load Method, …
Class 11 Friday 6/23/17	MP4	Class Notes	Using the unit load method to solve for deflections and statically indeterminate reactions in trusses.
Miscellaneous	Flipped moment diagram MP4 Flipped moment diagram MOV	Draw shear and moment diagram	Drawing shear and moment diagrams – why do the diagrams curve upwards or downwards?
Week 5
Class 12 Monday 6/26/17	MP4	Class Notes	Beam deflections by virtual work.
Class 13 Wednesday 6/28/17	Quiz A	Quiz A	Quiz A
Class 14 Friday 6/30/17	MP4	Class Notes	Volume integrals.  Direct Integration.  Solution of simple statically indeterminate structures by Flexibility Method.
Week 6
7/3/17	No classes
Class 15 Wednesday 7/5/17	MP4	Class Notes	Deflections by unit load method.
Class 16 Friday 7/7/17	MP4	Class Notes	Teaming problem.  Solve for reactions on 2nd degree statically indeterminate beam.
Week 7
Class 17 Monday 7/10/17	MP4	Class Notes	Drawing moment diagrams for primary structures.  Calculating DELTA i0 and delta ij
Class 18 Wednesday 7/12/17	MP4 MP4 – using Mastan2	Class Notes	Demonstration of using MASTAN2.
Class 19 Friday 7/14/17	MP4	Class Notes	Influence line generation.
Week 8
Class 20 Monday 7/17/17	MP4	Class Notes	Detailed instructions for generating influence lines.  Where to place loads on influence lines.
Class 21 Wednesday 7/19/17	MP4	Class Notes	Influence lines for distributed loads, pinned structures.
Class 22 Friday 7/21/17	MP4	Class Notes	Review for Quiz B
Quiz B Evening Review	MP4	Class Notes	Evening review for Quiz B
Week 9
Class 23 Monday 7/24/17	Quiz B	Quiz B	Quiz B
Class 24 Wednesday 7/26/17	MP4	Class Notes	Tons of example influence lines and calculation of loads and where to put loads on influence lines, where to put trucks on beams for maximum possible moments, influence lines for beams with pinned extensions.
Class 25 Friday 7/28/17	MP4	Class Notes	Standard truck loadings, lane loadings, more influence lines for statically indeterminate structures, floor loads and how they get from the floor to the beams and girders.
Week 10
Class 26 Monday 7/31/17	MP4	Class Notes	Wind Loads
Class 27 Wednesday 8/2/17	MP4	Class Notes	Cleanup class – truss influence lines, approximate methods including vertical loads and horizontal loads (portal method), more influence lines for statically indeterminate structures.  Introduction to stiffness methods.
Class 28 Friday 8/4/17	MP4	Class Notes	Stiffness methods
Week 11
Class 29 Monday 8/7/17	MP4 Recovered	Class Notes	Stiffness methods.  Help session.

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