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CVEN 444-503 (30344) Teams

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NAME Team # Email
LaCour, Daniel Edward 1 danlac5@email.tamu.edu
Lozano, Alejandro Alberto 1 alexlozano525@email.tamu.edu
Schroder, Stanford Austin 1 schrodersa98@email.tamu.edu
Stalder, John Brennan 1 johnstalder2@email.tamu.edu
Garza, Erica Monique 2 emg0296@email.tamu.edu
Hood, Aylie Kyoko 2 ayliehood@email.tamu.edu
Magana, Karen Ileen 2 karenmagana15@email.tamu.edu
Martinez, Barbara Xiomara 2 barbaramartinez15@email.tamu.edu
Grantham, Aimee Brooke 3 aimee.grantham@email.tamu.edu
Key, Casey Elizabeth 3 caseykey98@email.tamu.edu
McMahan, Katherine Elizabeth 3 katiebeth2019@email.tamu.edu
Olvera, Sabrina Lynn 3 lynn_sabrina@email.tamu.edu
Bluhm, Christopher Alan 4 cab12497@email.tamu.edu
Elhakim, Rana 4 ranaelhakim@email.tamu.edu
Graves, Tyler Thomas 4 tylergraves_15@email.tamu.edu
Mendez Levy, Venancio Alberto 4 venanciomendez@email.tamu.edu
Hernandez, Nicholas Tobias 5 nickhernandez@email.tamu.edu
McClain, Harrison Kevin Douglas 5 harrisonkdm@email.tamu.edu
Patterson, Tyra 5 justtyra15@email.tamu.edu
Roberts, Steven Dillon 5 sdroberts22@email.tamu.edu
Stricklin, John Andrew 6 john.stricklin@email.tamu.edu
Tiano, Rayten 6 raytentianoo1997@email.tamu.edu
Welch, Parker Cameron 7 parkercwelch@email.tamu.edu
Jayatilaka, Nadisha Erandi 7 nej295@email.tamu.edu
Miyahira, Kimm Tomoe 7 ktmiyahira@email.tamu.edu
Voigt, Etenauga Asolagilelei 7 e.voigt30@email.tamu.edu
Zarate, Jennifer Viviana 7 jennza@email.tamu.edu
Kelley, Morgan Michelle 8 morgank2015@email.tamu.edu
Khan, Mohammad Moeez 8 moeezk@email.tamu.edu
Miller, Christian Eugene 8 cmiller96@email.tamu.edu
Ortiz, Ashlyn Marie 8 ashlo@email.tamu.edu
Barnes, Adam Everitt 9 adam.barnes@email.tamu.edu
Berry, Richard Thomas 9 thomasber3@email.tamu.edu
Chen, Keith 9 keith7537@email.tamu.edu
Moved edge823@email.tamu.edu

Use of Textbook in Undergraduate and Graduate Courses

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The following paragraphs give a suggested set of topics and chapters to be covered in the first and second reinforced concrete design courses, normally given at the undergraduate and graduate levels, respectively.  lt is assumed that these are semester courses.

First Design  Course

Chapters 1 through 3 should be assigned, but the detailed information on loading in Chapter 2 can be covered in a second course. The information on concrete material properties in Chapter 3 could be covered with more depth in a separate undergraduate materials course. Chapters 4 and 5 are extremely important for all students and should form the foundation of the first undergraduate course. The information in Chapter 4 on moment vs. curvature behavior of beam sections is important for all designers, but this topic could be significantly expanded in a graduate course. Chapter 5 presents a variety of design procedures for developing efficient flexural designs of either singly-reinforced or doubly reinforced sections. The discussion of structural analysis for continuous floor systems in Section 52 could be skipped if either time is limited or students are not yet prepared to handle this topic. The first undergraduate course should cover Chapter 6 information on member behavior in shear and the shear design requirements given in the ACI Code. Discussions of other methods for determining the shear strength of concrete members can be saved for a second design course. Design for torsion, as covered in Chapter 7, could be covered in a first design course, but more often is left for a second design course. The reinforcement anchorage provisions of Chapter 8 are important material for the first undergraduate design course. Students should develop a basic understanding of development (continued below)

 

16  •  Preface

length requirements for straight and hooked bars, as well as the procedure to determine bar cutoff points and reinforcement details required at those cutoff points. The serviceability requirements in Chapter 9 for control of deflections and cracking are also important topics for the first undergraduate course. In particular, the ability to do an elastic section analysis and find moments of inertia for cracked and uncracked sections is an important skill for de­signers of concrete structures. Chapter 10 serves to tie together all of the requirements for continuous floor systems introduced in Chapters 5 through 9. The examples include details for flexural and shear design, as well as full span detailing of longitudinal and transverse reinforcement. This chapter could either be skipped for the first undergraduate course or be used as a source for a more extensive class design project. Chapter 11 concentrates on the analysis and design of columns sections and should be included in the first undergraduate course. The portion of Chapter 11 that covers column sections subjected to biaxial bending may either be included in a first undergraduate course or saved for a graduate course. Chapter 12 considers slenderness effects in columns, and the more detailed analysis re­quired for this topic is commonly presented in a graduate course. If time permits, the basic information in Chapter 15 on the design of typical concrete footings may be included in a first undergraduate course. This material may also be covered in a foundation design course taught at either the undergraduate or graduate level.

CVEN 345-300 Syllabus 2017

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THEORY OF STRUCTURES (CRN 10121)
Summer 2017 – C.E. Room 118
MWF 8:00 am – 9:10 am

PLEASE NOTE: THE SYLLABUS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE, DEPENDING ON HOW QUICKLY WE CAN COVER THE MATERIAL. PLEASE CHECK FOR CHANGES IN HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT DUE DATES BEFORE WORKING YOUR NEXT PROBLEMS.
NOTE ALSO THAT AS THE SYLLABUS CHANGES (AND IT ALWAYS DOES), YOU WILL HAVE TO RELOAD IT, OR IT WILL GO TO YOUR COMPUTER’S CACHE AND GIVE YOU THE ONE YOU LOOKED AT LAST WEEK , I.E. THE OLD OUT-OF-DATE ONE.

FAQ: Quick answers to student questions

Professor: Lee L. Lowery, Jr., PhD, P.E.

Office: CVLB Building (above the Pi*R2, Room 701C

Phone: 979-845-4395 (Office), 979-775-5401 (Home)

e-mail: Lowery@tamu.edu

Office Hours:

NOTE: My office hours as listed here are suspended on days before a major exam, giving me time to make it out.  Please do not wait until the day before a major exam for help.  Plan to see me earlier in the week.

Grader:  TBA  

Teaching Associate:  None  

HELP DESK – None???  Have to see if they hired any.  During regular semesters when there are more students, tutoring is done by 5 graduate students located in the Old Civil Engineering Building Room 023.  Go down the stairs to the basement, turn left, it is down the hall on your right.  All of them are good in tutoring you the material in CVEN 345. Just ask whoever is there for help.  Click here for the TA help desk schedule, who will be covering each time slot and hours of operation.  Email me if they change this at Lowery@tamu.edu.

Click here for their hours (not yet posted for Summer 2017), which run from 8 AM to 7 PM except on Friday.

Textbook: The textbook is excellent:  Kassimali, Structural Analysis. 5th Edition. CENGAGE Learning.

Looking for a used textbook?

5th edition 2014

ISBN Number

  • 1133943896 (10 digit) or

  • 9781133943891 (13 digit)

Note that less inexpensive International Editions are often available, but they are sometimes in all SI units, whereas in the U.S. edition, all example problems and half of the homework problems are U.S. customary units.  For the 5th edition, I have found that an International edition is available the same as ours.

Texas A&M University Bookstore  Fill in the Department, Course, and section number
CampusBooks4Less.com – Turns out that their International edition last semester was identical to the U.S. edition that we are using.  I just bought it.  Cost ~ $43 new, paperback, no color.  Check the ISBN number carefully, and be ready to return it.  These can be a gamble.
Campusbooks.com
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TextbooksRush.com
AbeBooks.com
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ORDER EARLY!  Here is where a text I bought has been.  Around the world in 30 days.

Note that the internet is a thieves paradise. If they won’t show you the cover, check the ISBN number carefully.

Bookstore or Internet?

Catalog Description:

Theory of Structures. (3-0). Credit 3. Structural engineering—functions of structures, design loads, reactions and force systems; analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate structures including beams, trusses and arches; energy methods of determining deflections of structures; influence lines and criteria for moving loads; analysis of statically indeterminate structures including continuous beams and frames. Prerequisites: CVEN 302 or registration therein; CVEN 305.

Course Objectives:

  • To introduce students to the general behavior of statically determinate and indeterminate structures and determination of forces therein. Construction of influence lines.  Determination of load and load placement on structures.  Use of available computer programs for analyzing statically indeterminate structures.

Learning Outcomes – This course emphasizes the following ABET Learning Outcomes. Note that the letters refer to those used by ABET.

       (a) Ability to apply knowledge of basic mathematics, science, and engineering.

Course Prerequisites:

To take CVEN 345, you must have received a passing grade (no D’s, F’s or I’s) in CVEN 305 and be registered or have already passed CVEN 302.

Course Assessment:

  • Graded major exams (Quiz A, Quiz B, Final Exam = 3 @ 30% each) for 90% of final grade.
  • Graded homework assignments, Readiness Assessment Tests (RATs), Class Participation, Attendance, Projects (all of equal value) = 10% of final grade.

Syllabus Information:

Resources available to the student:

The correct time (to the nanosecond)

Course Schedule: Please note that the course syllabus will be revised throughout the semester. Please do not work problems very far ahead of the date due. Some may be dropped, others added that are better (in my opinion) may be substituted.

Day Material covered Chapter Reading Assignment

Daily Homework Problem Assignments

Click here for homework requirements for this class

Each day’s assignment is due as listed below, 7 days after assigned, if we meet that day.  All homework problems are worth 10 points each.

Please refer to homework problems often.  Some may get delayed until we cover the material and the problem numbers and dates will change.

Note that web-linked homework problem numbers refer to hints, or some solutions.  SP = special problem.  Click on link for the problem.

Week 1
May 31
Class 1		  Introduction: Statically Determinate Reactions, Moment Diagrams Chapters
1, 3, 4.1-4.3		 Class Homework Assignments
 
Assignment 1) 3.8, 3.9, 3.18, 3.34
Due next Wednesday at 8:00 a.m.
June 2
Class 2		 Moment Equations, Analysis of Trusses – Method of Joints. 4.4-4.5 Assignment 2) 4.6, 4.12, 4.15, SP1
Due next Friday at 8:00 a.m.
On all truss problems, give the units, box your final answers and state whether the members are in tension or compression.

Week 2
June 5
Class 3		  Analysis of Trusses – Method of Sections. Chapters 4.6 – 4.7 Assignment 3) 4.31, 4.32, 4.33, 4.38, 4.46 (members JK and DE only), SP2
Due next Monday at 8:00 a.m., etc.
June 7
Class 4		 Zero force members.  Shear and bending moment diagrams in beams.  Equations for bending moment diagrams. Chapters 4.9, 5.1-5.2 A4) 3.4, 4.47 (member IH only), 4.49 (only members DE, EK, NO), 5.35, 5.39
Due 7 days from today
June 9
Class 5		  Shear and bending moment diagrams in frames.    Equations for bending moment diagrams. Chapters 5.3-5.4 A5) 4.3, 5.44, 5.51, SP3
Due 7 days from today, etc.

Week 3
June 12
Class 6

 Beams and Frames – Shear and moment diagrams

Detailed procedures for drawing shear and moment diagrams

 Chapter 5.5 A6)  5.52, 5.56, 5.57, 5.59, SP4
Note on SP4 through SP8, there is a pin at A and a roller at G.
June 14
Class 7

Beams and Frames – Shear and moment diagrams

Interactive shear and moment diagram practice module

 Chapters 5.6 A7) 5.65, 5.69, 5.70, SP5
June 16
Class 8		 Deflections by Direct Integration Chapters 6.1-6.3 A8) 6.1, 6.5, 6.7, SP6

Week 4
June 19
Class 9		  Beams and Frames – Deflections by Work-Energy Chapter 7.1, 7.2 A9) 7.1, 7.3, 7.5, SP7
June 21
Class 10		 “ Chapter 7.3, 7.4 No homework to hand in on day of Quiz A.
June 23
Class 11		 “ Chapter 7.5 A10) 7.11, 7.16(see pg 281), 7.20, 7.22, SP8

Week 5
June 26
Class 12		 Review
Volume Integrals		 Chapter 7.5 A11) 7.23, 7.24
For these 2 problems, use either the graphical method (volume integrals), or integral of mMdx/EI, whichever you prefer.
June 28
Class 13		 Quiz A – held in our classroom during regular class hours.  Covers everything above through homework problem 6.7.

Exam is closed book. Bring calculator, paper and pencils.  You are also permitted to bring one 8.5″ x 11″ cheat sheet, hand written by you (no copies) on ONE SIDE, no example problems. Equations only.

You should also bring a copy of the Fundamentals of Engineering Reference Manual, Structural section only, unless you have memorized the wide flange tables.   No notes of any kind written on them.   Click here for a copy
June 30
Class 14		 Chapter 13.1 Chapter 13.1 A12) 7.26, 7.31, 7.36

Week 6
July 5
Class 15		 Introduction to solution to statically indeterminate structures using the flexibility method/consistent distortions. Chapter 13.1 A13) 7.38, 7.39, 7.45, 7.50
July 7
Class 16		 “ Chapter 13.2 A14) 13.1, 13.2, 13.10, [13.16-Use Rb as the redundant]

Week 7
July 10
Class 17		 Solution to statically indeterminate structures with multiple degrees of indeterminacy using consistent deformations – Flexibility Method Chapter 13.3 A15) Use reactions listed below as redundants on the following problems:
[13.18 – Use Rbh as the redundant reaction], [13.20 – Use Rdh as the redundant], [SP13.20 again using Rdv as the redundant reaction]
July 12
Class 18

Brief summary of use of MASTAN2

Video of Use of Mastan2:
1) Open an existing file
2) Generate nodes
3) Define and attach elements and properties
4) Add loads, supports.  Run program and generate reports

MASTAN2 header sheets for exams

 Chapter 13.3 A16) On A16, solve for redundant reactions only.  Final member forces not required.
[13.26 – Use Rch as the redundant], [13.27 – Use Rcv as the redundant], [13.27 again – Use Rdv as the redundant],
SP20 (Run MASTAN2)
July 14
Class 19

GENERATION OF INFLUENCE LINES

MP4 files:
Generating reaction influence lines
Generating shear influence lines
Generating moment influence lines

 Chapter 13.3 A17)  [13.37 – Use Rbv & Rcv as the redundants], [13.43 – Use Rav and Rah as the redundants], 13.49 pg. 557 with figure on pg. 552.

Week 8
July 17
Class 20

Read Chapters 8 and 9READ:

How to construct and use influence lines

Notes:  The first influence lines are to be generated by statics.  All later influence lines can be worked by statics or by Mueller-Breslau if it is to your advantage.

All numeric values are required on all influence lines for statically determinate structures unless otherwise noted. Numeric values on statically indeterminate structures are not required – only the general shape of the influence line.

Highly recommended:
Interactive Practice with Influence Lines – (Note that only a few of the ones on the top row are working, including the Help modules, but those are still quite useful to learning how to work them.)

Muller-Breslau Principle, Use of Influence Lines.

 No homework due to hand in on the day of Quiz B.
July 19
Class 21		 Moving Loads,
Influence Lines for StructuresUse of influence lines to determine where to put live, dead, uniform, concentrated loads and compute maximum results.
Examples 1
Examples 2		 A18) 8.5, 8.10, 8.16, 8.20, SP9 – Omit
July 21
Class 22		  Use of influence lines for series of wheel loads.  Indiana truck loads specs. A19) 8.19, 8.21, 8.38, SP10

Week 9
July 24
Class 23

Quiz B – held in our classroom during regular class hours.

Covers everything above covered in class through Chapter 7, plus Chapter 13 through problem 13.27.

A20) 9.4, 9.6, 9.21, SP13

Exam is closed book. Bring calculator, paper and pencils.  You are also permitted to bring one 8.5″ x 11″ cheat sheet, hand written by you (no copies) on TWO SIDES, no example problems. Equations only.

You should also bring a copy of the Structural Section of the Fundamentals of Engineering Reference Manual, unless you have memorized the wide flange tables.   No notes of any kind written on them.   Click here for a copy
July 26
Class 24		 Chapter 14: Influence lines for statically indeterminate structures.  Closure on use of influence lines. Chapter 9 A21) 12.2, 12.6, 12.9, SP13.1(solve 13.1 again using MASTAN),  14.1*, 14.15*, 14.19*
*SHAPE of influence line ONLY! NO VALUES required.
July 28
Class 25		 Chapter 2: Loads on structures.  Wind Loads.
See http://windspeed.atcouncil.org/Wind Load Procedure		 Chapter 2  A22) 2.3, 2.4, 2.5

Week 10
July 31
Class 26		 Stiffness Methods Chapter 8.1-8.2 A23) 2.9, 2.12, 2.13
August 2
Class 27		 Stiffness Methods
August 4
Class 28		 Chapter 12: Approximate solutions to statically indeterminate structures. Solutions for vertical loads. Horizontal loads – Portal Method.

Week 11
August 7
Class 29
August 8 Final Exam
Tuesday August 8th
8:00 am to 10:00 am
Held in our classroom

CHECK THIS DATE FOR
ACCURACY HERE:
Final Exam Schedules		 Final Exam – Exam is closed book. Bring only calculator, paper and pencils.  You are also permitted to bring one 8.5″ x 11″ cheat sheet to the quiz, hand written by you (no copies) on TWO SIDES, no example problems. Equations and procedures only.  Exam covers everything in the course.
You should also bring a copy of the Fundamentals of Engineering Reference Manual, Structural section only.   No notes of any kind on them.   Click here for a copy
Pick up any old leftover homework on the last day of class.

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The following is the University required Academic Integrity Statement

“An Aggie does not lie, cheat, or steal or tolerate those who do.”

All exams and syllabi shall contain a section that states the Aggie Honor Code and refers the student to the Honor Council Rules and Procedures on the web at: http://www.tamu.edu/aggiehonor

345 Class Special Problem #20 assignment

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MASTAN2 is an interactive structural analysis computer program for determining reactions, internal forces, bending moment diagrams, buckling loads, etc. in two/three dimensional statically determinant/indeterminate structures.  It is free.  It is amazing.  It won’t compete with most of the commercial programs for large scale production, but it has by far the easiest learning curve of anything out there.  And once you see how it works, moving up to RISA or any other commercial program is very easy.

Go to http://www.mastan2.com/ and click on Download on the left side of the screen to download the MASTAN2 structural analysis program onto your computer, and bring your computer to class with you next time we meet.

There are two programs available at this address.  You will find them listed under “Getting Started”.  I recommend installation using Method 2/Version 2, where you don’t need access to MATLAB on your computer, even if you have MATLAB on your computer.  We have had some problems trying to connect it to MATLAB, and unless you intend to program additional capabilities using MATLAB (not likely in 345) you have no need for it.

The program includes an excellent user’s manual.  We will discuss that and the use of MASTAN in our next class.  Please look over the user’s manual so you will have some idea about what we are doing.

Please email me back if you need any help getting started with this.

L^3

CVEN 345 – Theory of Structures

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Lectures and Class Notes – 2016b Summer Semester

Note: None of this will make sense without a text. Click here to see the text you will require to make any sense out of these lectures.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are having problems viewing the files, click here.

The MP4 lecture files are for web enabled phones or iPad/iPod stuff.  You can either left-click on the Lecture files and view them over the web, or you can download them to your computer and play them from there by right-clicking on them, then on “Download Real Video” then “Save Target As.” You cannot download the .rm files by merely right-clicking on them. That will only give you a short one-line rtsp file. Clicking on that will again stream the file over the web.

You will need Adobe Reader to view the Class Notes files. The Class Notes files can be viewed by left-clicking on them or you can download them to your computer by right-clicking and then “Save Target As”.

Class/Day Lecture Videos
(Real Media or MP4)		 Class Notes
(Adobe .pdf)		 Materials Covered
Week 1
Class 1
Wednesday
6/1/16		 MP4 Part 1
MP4 Part 2		 Class Notes Part 1 – Introduction to class,
Part 2 – Frame reactions in statically determinate structures, shear and moment diagrams for their members.
MOV Part 1
MOV Part 2
Class 2
Friday
6/3/16		 MP4 Part 1
MP4 Part 2
MP4 Part 3		 Class Notes Part 1 – FE Reference Manual – Counting to see if structure is stable/unstable, statically determinate/indeterminate.
Part 2 – Drawing moment diagrams for the frame members, and writing equations for the moments in the frame members.
Part 3 – Forces inside of truss members by Method of Joints, Zero force members.
MOV Part 1
MOV Part 2
MOV Part 3
Week 2
Class 3
Monday
6/6/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes (0:00 minutes) Zero force members; (8:10 minutes) Solving for forces in truss members using method of sections;
(1:01:00 minutes) Writing a moment equation for triangular loading on a member; (1:13:26 minutes) Solving for reactions on a complex frame
Class 4
Wednesday
6/8/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes (0:00) Review zero-force members (1:00) Statical determinacy/indeterminacy for beams and frames,
(33:00) Get MASTAN
(37:00) Introduction to changing a statically indeterminate structure into a statically determinate (primary) structure which can be solved by statics.
Class 5
Friday
6/10/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes (0:00) Determining and plotting moments inside of statically determinate frames; (13:37) Solving for forces/moments inside a 1st degree statically indeterminate beam; (45:12) Solving for forces/moments inside a 2nd degree statically indeterminate beam; (1:08:50) Solving for forces/moments inside of a 1st degree indeterminate frame.
Week 3
Class 6
Monday
6/13/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes (0:00) Short discussion on Special Problem #2; (8:00) Writing moment equations M0, m1, m2, finding deflections for the moment diagrams obtained in Class 5’s work; Naming convention for D10, D20, d11, d12, d21, d22, etc.
Class 7
Wednesday
6/15/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes
Class 8
Friday
6/17/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes
Miscellaneous Help with problems SP1, SP2, SP2a, SP3&SP2c, SP3
Week 4
Class 9
Monday
6/20/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes
Class 10
Wednesday
6/22/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes Principal of Virtual Forces for Deformable Bodies – Virtual Work, Unit Load Method, Virtual Load Method, …
Class 11
Friday
6/24/16		 MP4
MOV		 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
6/27/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes Beam deflections by virtual work.
Class 13
Wednesday
6/29/16		 Quiz A Quiz A Quiz A
Class 14
Friday
7/1/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes Volume integrals.  Direct Integration.  Solution of simple statically indeterminate structures by Flexibility Method.
Week 6
7/4/16 Holiday
Class 15
Wednesday
7/6/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes Deflections by unit load method.
Class 16
Friday
7/8/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes Teaming problem.  Solve for reactions on 2nd degree statically indeterminate beam.
Week 7
Class 17
Monday
7/11/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes Drawing moment diagrams for primary structures.  Calculating DELTA i0 and delta ij
Class 18
Wednesday
7/13/16		 MP4 – starting class
MOV – starting class
MP4 – using Mastan2		 Class Notes Demonstration of using MASTAN2.
Class 19
Friday
7/15/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes Influence line generation.
Week 8
Class 20
Monday
7/18/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes Detailed instructions for generating influence lines.  Where to place loads on influence lines.
Class 21
Wednesday
7/20/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes Influence lines for distributed loads, pinned structures.
Class 22
Friday
7/22/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes Review for Quiz B
Quiz B Evening Review MP4
MOV		 Class Notes Evening review for Quiz B
Week 9
Class 23
Monday
7/25/16		 Quiz B Quiz B Quiz B
Class 24
Wednesday
7/27/16		 MP4a   MP4b
MOVa   MOVb		 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
7/29/16		 MP4
MOV		 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
8/1/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes Wind Loads
Class 27
Wednesday
8/3/16		 MP4
MOV		 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
8/5/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes Stiffness methods
Week 11
Class 29
Monday
8/8/16		 MP4
MOV		 Class Notes Stiffness methods.  Help session.

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

Text Shipping Log

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I ordered a copy of a textbook on 11/22/14.  The seller didn’t get it shipped until 12/2/14 (see below).

They picked it up in Elizabethport, NJ on 12/2/14.  It then went to Sparks NV, Fishers IN, Coppell TX, then College Station.  No wonder they’re going broke.  Even then it took another 6 days to get it to the CE Department.  Moral is, order as early as possible.

Lee Lowery Jr has requested a USPS Tracking™ update, as shown below.

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Departed Shipping Partner Facility COPPELL, TX 75019 December 15, 2014 6:23 pm
Arrived Shipping Partner Facility COPPELL, TX 75019 December 15, 2014 9:09 am
Arrived Shipping Partner Facility FISHERS, IN 46037 December 11, 2014 10:16 pm
Departed Shipping Partner Facility SPARKS, NV 89441 December 9, 2014 8:58 pm
Arrived Shipping Partner Facility SPARKS, NV 89441 December 9, 2014 5:55 pm
Picked Up by Shipping Partner ELIZABETHPORT, NJ 07206 December 2, 2014 10:03 pm

 Note that this is “Delivered” to the post office.  I didn’t get it at the office for another 6 days.

CVEN 345 – Structural Analysis – 2016

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Lectures and Notes – 2016c

PLEASE NOTE: If you are having problems viewing the files, please click here.

The Lectures are MP4 for phones or IPod stuff, or MOV for apple products. You can either left-click on the Lecture files and view them over the web, or you can download them to your computer and play them from there by right-clicking on the file, then click on “Save Target As.”

You will need Adobe Reader to view the Class Notes files. The Notes files can be viewed by left-clicking on them or by downloading them to your computer by right-clicking and then “Save Target As.”

Note that the web links below are pre-loaded, but will not be hot until after class when we generate the notes and videos and I can get them posted.  If I get behind, and you are ready to use them, please email me at Lowery@tamu.edu to remind me.

A previous year’s notes and videos are available at https://lowery.engr.tamu.edu/2021/07/29/cven-345-structural-analysis-2016-2/

Lecture videos – I have no idea why, but on my computer the Mpg files play immediately (streaming) while the MOV files have to completely download before playing.  Much slower. Class Notes Materials covered
Class 1
8/29
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class 1.pdf
Class 2
8/31
Wed		 Mov
MP4		 Class 2.pdf
Class 3
9/2/16
Fri		 Mov
MP4		 Class 3.pdf
Class 4
9/5/16
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class 4.pdf
Class 5
9/7/16
Wed		 Mov
MP4		 Class 5.pdf
Class 6
9/9/16
Fri		 Mov
MP4		 Class 6.pdf
Class 7
9/12/16
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class 7.pdf
Class 8
9/14/15
Wed		 Mov
MP4		 Class 8.pdf
Class 9
9/16/16
Fri		 Mov
MP4		 Class 9.pdf
Class 10
9/19/16
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class 10.pdf
Class 11
9/21/16
Wed		 Mov
MP4		 Class 11.pdf
Class 12
9/23/16
Fri		 Mov
MP4		 Class 12.pdf
Class 13
9/26/16
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class 13.pdf
Class 14
9/28/16
Wed		 Mov
MP4		 Class 14 Notes
Class 15
9/30/16
Fri		 Mov
MP4		 Class 15 Notes
Class 16
10/3/16
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class 16 Notes
Class 17
10/5/16
Wed		 Mov
MP4		 Class 17 Notes
Class 18
10/7/16
Fri		 Mov
MP4		 Class 18 Notes
Class 19
10/10/16
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class 19 Notes
Class 20
10/12/16
Wed		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Help Session If these don’t work, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
Mov
MP4		 If these don’t work, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
Class Notes
Help Session If these don’t work, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
Mov
MP4		 If these don’t work, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
Class Notes
Class 21
10/14/16
Fri		 Quiz A Quiz A
Class 22
10/17/16
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 23
10/19/16
Wed		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 24
10/21/16
Fri		 Mov
MP4		 Pre-class Notes
Class Notes
Class 25
10/24/16
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 26
10/26/16
Wed		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 27
10/28/16		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 28
10/31/16
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 29
11/2/16
Wed		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 30
11/4/16
Fri		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 31
11/7/16
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
 Quiz B
Help Sessions		 If these don’t work, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
Mov Spring 2016a 4/10/16
MP4 Spring 2016a 4/10/16		 If these don’t work, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
Help session notes
Spring 2016a 4/10/16
Class 32
11/9/16
Wed		 Quiz B Quiz B
Class 33
11/11/16
Fri		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 34
11/14/16
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 35
11/16/16
Wed		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 36
11/18/16
Fri		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 37
11/21/16
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 38
11/28/16
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 39
11/30/16
Wed		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 40
12/2/16
Fri		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Final exam help sessions

  If these don’t work, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!

MP4 video 1 Fall 2016
Mov video 1 Fall 2016

MP4 video 1 Spring 2016
Mov video 1 Spring 2016
MP4 video 2 Spring 2016
Mov video 2 Spring 2016

If these don’t work, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!

Class Notes – Fall 2016

Class Notes – Spring 2016
Class 41
12/5/26
Mon		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 42
12/7/26
Wed		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes

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

CVEN 345 – Structural Analysis – 2016

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Lectures and Notes – 2016a

PLEASE NOTE: If you are having problems viewing the files, please click here.

The Lectures are MP4 for phones or IPod stuff, or MOV for apple products. You can either left-click on the Lecture files and stream them over the web, or you can download them to your computer and play them from there by right-clicking, then “Download” then “Save Target As.”

The files can be downloaded by right-clicking and then “Save Target As.”

You will need Adobe Reader to view the Class Notes files. The Notes files can be viewed by left-clicking on them or by downloading them to your computer by right-clicking and then “Save Target As.”

Note that the web links below are pre-loaded, but will not be hot until after class when we generate the notes and videos and I can get them posted.  If I get behind, and you are ready to use them, please email me at Lowery@tamu.edu to remind me.

Last year’s notes and videos are available at http://ceprofs.tamu.edu/llowery/cven345/Lectures/2015cLectures.htm

Lecture videos Class Notes Materials covered
Class 1

Sadly, the video capture program failed.

Mov video from last semester
MP4 video from last semester

Class 1.pdf notes from this semester

Class 1.pdf notes from last semester
Class 2 Mov
MP4		 Class 2.pdf
Class 3 Mov
MP4		 Class 3.pdf
Class 4 Mov
MP4		 Class 4.pdf
Class 5 Mov
MP4  Alternate MP4		 Class 5.pdf
Class 6 Mov
MP4		 Class 6.pdf
Class 7 Mov
MP4		 Class 7.pdf
Class 8 Mov
MP4		 Class 8.pdf
Class 9 Review – shear and bending moment diagrams
Mov
MP4		 Class 9.pdf
Class 10 Mov
MP4		 Class 10.pdf
Class 11 Mov
MP4		 Class 11.pdf
Class 12 Mov
MP4		 Class 12.pdf
Class 13 Mov
MP4		 Class 13.pdf
Class 14 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 15 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 16 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 17 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 18 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 19 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 20 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Help Session 3/6/16 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Help Session 3/6/16 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 21 Quiz A Quiz A
Class 22 Sadly, equipment failed Class Notes
Class 23 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 24 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 25 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 26 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 27 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 28 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 29 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 30 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 31 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 31a Quiz B
Help Session
4/10/16		 Well, after some really great technical work, one of the IT guys was able to tease the video from the hard drive.  Too late now for most, but still, here  it is.
Mov
MP4		 Help session notes
Class 32 Quiz B Quiz B
Class 33 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 34 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 35 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 36 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 37 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 38 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 39 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 40 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Final help session   MP4 video 1
Mov video 1
MP4 video 2
Mov video 2		 Class Notes
Class 41 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 42 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes

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

 

 

CVEN 345 – Theory of Structures

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Lectures and Class Notes for 2017b
Summer Semester

Note: None of this will make sense without a textbook. Click here to see the text you will require to make any sense out of these lectures.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are having problems viewing the files, click here.

The MP4 lecture files are for web enabled phones or iPad/iPod stuff.  You can either left-click on the Lecture files and view them over the web, or you can download them to your computer and play them from there by right-clicking on them, then on “Download Real Video” then “Save Target As.” You cannot download the .rm files by merely right-clicking on them. That will only give you a short one-line rtsp file. Clicking on that will again stream the file over the web.

You will need Adobe Reader to view the Class Notes files. The Class Notes files can be viewed by left-clicking on them or you can download them to your computer by right-clicking and then “Save Target As”.

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.

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