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CVEN 345 – Theory of Structures – 2013

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Abigail Stason

Lectures and Notes – 2013c Fall Semester

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Materials covered
Week 1
Class 1
Tuesday
8/27/13
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Notes Introduction to course.  Loads on structures.
Material covered in text: pages 1-19.
Class 2
Thursday
8/29/13
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Notes Practice with tributary loads, loads on beams.  Dead and live loads on structures.  Truck loadings.  Wind loading.
Material covered in text: pages 20-31
Week 2
Class 3
Tuesday
9/3/13
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Notes Review of basic statics.  When is a structure statically unstable, statically stable, statically indeterminate.
Material covered in text: pages 43-61
Class 4
Thursday
9/5/13
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Notes Solution for forces in frames.  Forces in trusses using method of joints and method of sections.
Material covered in text: pages 61-80.
Week 3
Class 5
Tuesday
9/10/13
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Notes Zero-force members.  Method of sections, reactions on complex structures, introduction to shear and moment diagrams
Material covered in text: pages 121a-121n
Class 6
Thursday
9/12/13
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Notes Centroids for equivalent loads, Shear and moment diagrams, moment diagrams for frames.
Material covered in text: pages 160-165d
Week 4
Class 7
Tuesday
9/17/13
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Notes Introduction to statically indeterminate beams.  Shear and moment diagrams.  Equations for moment diagrams for use in finding deflections.  Shear and moment diagrams in frames.
Material covered in text: pages 165d-194.
Most of this material was covered as we progressed through the first 5 classes.
Class 8
Thursday
9/19/13
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Notes Moment diagrams for frames, for use in solving for reactions in indeterminate structures.  Boundary conditions – zero deflections and zero rotations on supports – rollers, pins, and fixed supports.
Material covered in text: pages 165d-194, again.
Week 5
Class 9
Tuesday
9/24/13
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Notes Static Determinacy, Indeterminacy, and Instability of Plane Frames
Material covered in text: pages 196-200
Class 10
Thursday
9/26/13
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Notes Introduction to solution of indeterminate reactions.  Analysis of Plane Frames.  Deflections of trusses using Virtual Work.
Material covered in text: pages 275-286
Week 6
Class 11
Tuesday
10/1/13
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Notes Deflections of structures using Virtual Work
Material covered in text: pages 293-299
Class 12
Thursday
10/3/13
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Notes Deflections of structures using Virtual Work
Material covered in text: pages 
293-299
Week 7
Class 13
Tuesday
10/8/13
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Not yet up – Notes Solution to statically indeterminate beams – 1st degree redundant.
Material covered in text: pages 508-524
Class 14
Thursday
10/10/13
Quiz A Quiz A Quiz A
Week 8
Class 15
Tuesday
10/15/13
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Notes Solution to statically indeterminate beams.
Material covered in text: pages 524-530
Class 16
Thursday
10/17/13
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Notes Solution to statically indeterminate frames.
Material covered in text: pages 524-530
Week 9
Class 17
Tuesday
10/22//13
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Notes Solving for redundants on multiply indeterminate structures
Class 18
Thursday
10/24/13
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Notes Solving for influence lines on statically determinate beams by statics.
Week 10
Class 19
Tuesday
10/29/13
Quiz B Quiz B Quiz B
Class 20
Thursday
10/31/13
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Notes  Detailed notes on solving for influence lines by Mueller-Breslau method.  Example problems.
Week 11
Class 21
Tuesday
11/5/13
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Notes Influence lines in trusses, beams with pins.  Solution to forces in trusses and statically indeterminate structures using Mueller-Breslau method.  Example problems.
Class 22
Thursday
11/7/13
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Notes  Maximum moments caused in beams loaded with a series of wheels.
Max at a specified point in the beam.
Max anywhere in the beam.
Week 12
Class 23
Tuesday
11/12/13
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Notes Approximate analysis of structures.
Class 24
Thursday
11/14/13
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Notes Approximate analysis of structures – portal method.
Week 13
Class 25
Tuesday
11/19/13
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Notes Approximate analysis of structures – cantilever method. Solution of statically indeterminate structures using flexibility methods vs. stiffness methods. Kohutek derivations for Slope Deflection method.
Class 26
Thursday
11/21/13
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Notes Use of Slope Deflection method on beams.
Week 14
Class 27
Tuesday
11/26/13
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Notes Use of Slope Deflection method on frames.
Class 28
Thursday
12/3/13
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Notes Set up of Matrix equations for computer use.

The above links will be dead until we actually generate the notes and I get them posted.  Email me if I forget to post a set: Lowery@tamu.edu

 

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