Lectures and Notes – 2011a
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| Class 1 Tuesday 01-18-11 |
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Notes for ’08 video: 345_08-26-08.pdfNotes for our class: Class 1 Notes |
Introduction to course. | |
| Class 2 Thursday 01-20-11 |
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Class 2 Notes | Practice with tributary loads, loads on beams. One-way & two-way slabs. Dead and live loads on structures. Truck loadings. Live load reductions. Wind loading. | |
| Class 3 Tuesday 01-25-11 |
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Class 3 Notes | Review of live load reduction for beams, girders, columns. Note corrections on example problem worked in class. Thanks to the student that noticed it. Load combinations. Review of basic statics. | |
| Class 4 Thursday 01-27-11 |
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Class 4 Notes | Forces in truss members using Method of Joints and Method of Sections. | |
| Class 5 Tuesday 02-01-11 |
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Class 5 Notes | More truss member forces. Zero force members in trusses. Pulleys. Forces and reactions in segmented beams. Shear and bending moments in beams. | |
| Class 6 Thursday 02-03-11 |
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Class 6 Notes | Introduction to statically indeterminate beams. Shear and moment diagrams. Equations for moment diagrams for use in finding deflections. | |
| Class 7 Tuesday 02-08-11 |
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Class 7 Notes | Shear and moment diagrams in frames. Equations for moments in frames. Introduction to solution for redundant reactions in statically indeterminate structures. | |
| Class 8 Thursday 02-10-11 |
Computer crashed | Class 8 Notes | Introduction to solving for forces in statically indeterminate structures. When superposition is not valid. Examples. | |
| Class 9 Tuesday 02-15-11 |
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Class 9 Notes | Number of degrees of indeterminacy, required deflections to solve statically indeterminate problems, sketching of primary structures with real and unit loads applied. | |
| Class 10 Thursday 02-17-11 |
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Class 10 Notes | Introduction to influence lines. Influence lines for statically determinate simply supported beams. Generation using statics. | |
| Class 11 Tuesday 02-22-11 |
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Class 11 Notes | Generating influence lines using the Muller-Breslau principle. Where to place wheel, live, and dead loads on structures as ound from an influence line. Calculation of final results. | |
| Class 12 Thursday 02-24-11 |
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Class 12 Notes | More examples of influence line generation. Detailed step-by-step directions on generating influence lines. Generating influence lines for bridge decks and trusses. | |
| Class 13 Tuesday 03-01-11 |
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Class 13 Notes | Determining maximum moment at a given point in a beam, loaded with a set of wheel loads. Determining the absolute maximum live load moment in a beam anywhere in the beam, due to wheel loads. | |
| Class 14 Thursday 03-03-11 |
Exam A No Video. |
Exam A No Notes. |
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| Class 15 Tuesday 03-08-11 |
No video. Guest lecturer. Dr. Terry Kohutek |
Class 15 Notes | Deflections. Why? How? Deflections using Direct Integration. | |
| Class 16 Thursday 03-10-11 |
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Class 16 Notes | Deflections – example need to get deflections to solve for redundants in statically indeterminate structures. Two examples using direct integration. Deflections by energy methods. Deflections by the method of Real Work. Deflections in a truss using Real Work. Deflections by the method of Virtual Work. |
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| Class 17 Tuesday 03-22-11 |
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Class 17 Notes | Deflections using the unit load method. Trusses. Beams. Frames. Volume Integrals. | |
| Class 18 Thursday 03-24-11 |
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Class 18 Notes | Review of deflections on frames by unit load method. Generating of equations to solve for redundants in statically indeterminate frames. Use of volume integrals to calculate INTEGRAL[Mp Mq dx/EI]. Maxwell-Betti Law of Reciprocal Deflections. | |
| Class 19 Tuesday 03-29-11 |
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Class 19 Notes | Example problems. Beam structure statically indeterminate to 1st degree. Frame structure statically indeterminate to the 2nd degree. | |
| Class 20 Thursday 03-31-11 |
No video. Guest lecturer. Dr. Terry Kohutek |
Class 20 Notes | Stiffness methods. Derivation of slope deflection equations. | |
| Class 21 Tuesday 04-05-11 |
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Class 21 Notes | Review of what was covered in class 19 – Flexibility analysis of a two-degree indeterminate structure. Review of what was covered by Dr. Kohutek in class 20 – Slope Deflection Equations. How to solve statically indeterminate structures using the Slope-Deflection Method, which is a stiffness method. | |
| Class 22 Thursday 04-07-11 |
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Class 22 Notes | Slope deflection example problems. | |
| Class 23 Tuesday 04-12-11 |
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Class 23 Notes | Where to put loads on structures to maximize reactions, shears, moments. Review of influence lines for statically determinate structures. Influence lines for statically indeterminate structures. | |
| Class 24 Thursday 04-14-11 |
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Class 24 Notes | Approximate solution for moments in statically indeterminate beams. | |
| Class 25 Tuesday 04-19-11 |
Quiz B | Quiz B | ||
| Class 26 Thursday 04-21-11 |
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Class 26 Notes | Approximate methods – Portal and Cantilever Methods. | |
| Class 27 Tuesday 04-26-11 |
Mastan Demonstration | None | Mastan Structural Analysis Demonstration | |
| Class 28 Thursday 04-28-11 |
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Class 28 Notes | Review of course for final exam – typical problems likely to appear on final. |
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