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CVEN 345-502 Syllabus 2013**

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THEORY OF STRUCTURES
Spring 2013 – C.E. Room 118
TR 2:20 pm – 3:35 pm

Professor: Lee L. Lowery, Jr., PhD, P.E.
Office: Old CE Building, Room 139C
Phone: 979-845-4395 (Office), 979-775-5401 (Home)
e-mail: Lowery@tamu.edu

Office Hours:

NOTE: Office hours listed below are suspended on the day before a major exam, giving me time to make it out.  Do not wait until the day before a major exam for help, unless the tutor has office hours on that day.

  • MWF 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  • TR 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Half of my time is spent teaching CVEN 345 and CVEN 446. During the remaining hours I am a departmental adviser and have limited time for tutoring. Please plan on assistance either during my office hours, or see the tutor during their office hours. On MWF from 10:00 to 11:30 and on TR from 12:30 until 2:20 pm I am preparing for my classes, so please note that you won’t find me during those hours. Don’t wait until just before class to get help or you likely won’t get any.

Teaching Associates: 

Tutoring will be done by 4 graduate students. They are located in the Old Civil Engineering Building room 030 (in the basement).  All of them are capable of tutoring you in CVEN 345.  Click here for their hours, which run from 10 AM to 10 PM except on Friday.

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Textbook: The textbook is excellent – one of the best:  Kassimali, Structural Analysis. 4th Edition. CENGAGE Learning. 

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4th edition 2010

ISBN Number

  • 0495295655 (10 digit) or

  • 9780495295655 (13 digit)

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Catalog Description:

Theory of Structures. (3-0). Credit 3. Structural engineering—functions of structure, design loads, reactions and force systems; analysis of statically determinate 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.

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 been admitted to upper level in Civil Engineering, 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 any problems ahead of the date due. Some may be dropped, others that are better (in my opinion) may be substituted.

NOTE! Homework problems have changed since you last looked at this list. Do not work your next problem set until you check this out.

Day
Date
(Class #)		 Material covered Reading Assignment Daily Problem Assignments
See due dates for assigned homework problems below.
Click on hot links for hints on the problem.

Week 1
Tuesday
Jan 15
(Class 1)		  Introduction, Design Loads
Read Chapters 1 and 2		  Chapter 1

Start working your homework problems.

See assigned problems and due dates below.
Thursday
Jan 17
(Class 2)		 Loads on Structures Chapter 2 You should have finished some of the homework problems by now and ready to finish up this weekend.

Week 2
Tuesday
Jan 22
(Class 3)		  Design Loads, Statics of Structures, Equilibrium and Support Reactions
Read Chapter 3		 Chapter 3

You should be finished with all of last week’s homework by now, and ready to hand it in today.

Due today:

Problems 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 2.7 of your text.
Thursday
Jan 24
(Class 4)

Statics of Structures, Truss Analysis – Method of Joints, Zero force members.

Review Videos
Browse to “Truss Member Forces by Joints and Sections”

 Chapter 3  

Week 3
Tuesday
Jan 29
(Class 5)		  Truss Analysis – Method of Sections
Read Chapter 4

Due today:

Problems 2.8, 2.9, 3.8, 3.10, 3.23, 3.30
Thursday
Jan 31
(Class 6)

Beams and Frames – Internal Forces, Equations for Shear and Moment

Detailed procedure for drawing shear and moment diagrams

 Assigned Today
Flipped Class
Click here to watch Video 19c and be ready to take a pop quiz on it by Class 8

Week 4
Tuesday
Feb 5
(Class 7)		  Beams and Frames – Shear and moment diagrams, Superposition
Read Chapter 5Interactive shear and moment diagram practice module

Due today:

Problems 3.3, 3.4, 4.8, 4.11, 4.14, 4.16
Thursday
Feb 7
(Class 8)		 Beams and Frames – Shear and moment diagrams, Superposition  

If you don’t know how to run a structural analysis program to solve for forces in a truss or frame, a demo solving problem 4.39 is worked out here using MASTAN2.

Click here for MP4, or here for HTML

You will probably need to read the information on getting and running the program, and how to make the above videos fit on your screen as given here.

If you already know RISA or Visual Analysis, or some other program, and can work the problems due on Class 12, you won’t need this.

Week 5
Tuesday
Feb 12
(Class 9)		  Beams and Frames – Sketching the Deflected Shape, Indeterminacy
Read Chapter 6

Due today:

Problems 4.28, 4.39, 4.40 and 4.45.  Save a copy of your answers for problems 4.39 and 4.40 for later homework assignments.

Thursday
Feb 14
(Class 10)

 Beams and Frames – Sketching the moment diagrams, writing the equations

Volume Integrals

  

Week 6
Tuesday
Feb 19
(Class 11)		 Elastic Deflections of Trusses – Method of Virtual Work
Read Chapter 7		  

Due today:

Problems 5.22, 5.34, 5.35, 5.46 and 5.47
Thursday
Feb 21
(Class 12)		 Elastic Deflections of Beams – Method of Virtual Work  

Due today:

Check the results of Problem 4.39 with a structural analysis program of your choice, and hand in a printout of the results.

Week 7
Tuesday
Feb 26
(Class 13)		 Virtual Work; Flexibility Method
Read Chapter 13		  

Due today:

Problems 5.65, 5.70, 5.71, 7.3, 7.11

Check the results of Problem 4.40 with a structural analysis program of your choice, and hand in a printout of the results.
Thursday
Feb 28
(Class 14)

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

Covers everything above through homework problem 5.47

 Exam is closed book. Bring only calculator, paper and pencils.
You are also permitted to 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

Week 8
Tuesday
Mar 5
(Class 15)		 Virtual Work; Flexibility Method
Read Chapter 11

Due today:

Problems 7.16, 7.18, 7.23 and 7.26
Thursday
Mar 7
(Class 16)		 Virtual Work; Flexibility Method  
Tuesday
Mar 12
Spring Break		 Spring Break Spring Break
Thursday
Mar 14
Spring Break		 Spring Break Spring Break

Week 9
Tuesday
Mar 19
(Class 17)		 Flexibility Method

Due today:

Problems 7.31, 7.37, 7.41, 7.43, and 13.13
Thursday
Mar 21
(Class 18)		  Influence Lines for Determinate Beams
Read Chapter 8

NOTE CHANGE IN PROBLEMS ASSIGNED

ASSIGNED TODAY
FLIPPED CLASS

Watch videos and be ready to take a quiz on the material by Class 20

INFLUENCE LINE GENERATION

HTML/SWF files:
Generating reaction influence lines
Generating shear influence lines
Generating moment influence lines

MP4 files:
Generating reaction influence lines
Generating shear influence lines
Generating moment 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 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 shape of the influence diagram. 

Week 10
Tuesday
Mar 26
(Class 19)		 Muller-Breslau Principle, Use of Influence Lines, Moving Loads
Influence Lines for Indeterminate Structures
Read Chapter 9 and 15Highly 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.)

READ!

Construction and application of influence lines

NOTE CHANGE IN PROBLEMS ASSIGNED

Due today:

Problems 13.11, 13.27, 13.32, 13.43,  and 13.47
Thursday
Mar 28
(Class 20)		 Muller-Breslau Principle, Use of Influence Lines, Moving Loads, Influence Lines for Indeterminate Structures NOTE: Last day for Q-dropping classes is 4/2/13.
Click here for some idea to help you decide.  Grade distributions are very close to CVEN 446 over the years.

Week 11
Tuesday
Apr 2
(Class 21)		 Muller-Breslau Principle, Application of Influence Lines, Moving Loads, Use of Influence Lines for Multiple Wheel Loads
Influence Lines of Indeterminate Structures
Read Chapter 12

NOTE CHANGE IN PROBLEMS ASSIGNED

Due today:

Problems 8.5, 8.10, 8.16, 8.20, and 8.21
Thursday
Apr 4
(Class 22)		 Qualitative Influence Lines for Indeterminate Structures  

Week 12
Tuesday
Apr 9
(Class 23)

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

Covers everything above through problem 13.47 

 Exam is closed book. Bring only calculator, paper and pencils.
You are also permitted to bring a copy of the Fundamentals of Engineering Reference Manual, Structural section only.  No notes of any kind written on them.  Click here for a copy
Thursday
Apr 11
(Class 24)		 Approximate Analysis of Indeterminate Structures
Read Chapter 12Cantilever Method

 

NOTE CHANGE IN PROBLEMS ASSIGNED FOR TODAY

Due today:

Problems 8.29, 8.38, 8.47, 9.4, 9.6, and 9.21.

Week 13
Tuesday
Apr 16
(Class 25)		 Stiffness Methods
Read Chapter 18

Due today:

Problems 15.1, 15.5, 15.6, 15.13 and 15.16

NOTE!
Draw Qualitative Diagrams only.
Ignore the request for actual values.
No numbers are required.
Thursday
Apr 18
(Class 26)		 Stiffness Methods    

Week 14
Tuesday
Apr 23
(Class 27)		 Stiffness Methods

Due today:

Problems 12.6, 12.13, 12.14, and 12.21

Also, set up a table of maximum moments, shears, and axial forces in members CD and DB, comparing the approximate solutions found in problems 12.6, 12.14, and those found with an exact solution using MASTAN or a similar program. Use E = 207 GPa, and W310x143 sections with A = 18.2×103 mm2 and Ixx = 348×106 mm4 for all members.  Be careful not to mix your units of meters for length, with mm2 and mm4.  Since MASTAN uses mm, mm2, and mm4, if you will just convert the loads to N/mm and lengths to mm, and enter E = you should be OK.  Also, click here.
Thursday
Apr 25
(Class 28)		 Matrix Structural Analysis: Frames

Due today:

Problems 18.3, 18.5, and 18.6
 Final Exam Wednesday
May 8th from 1-3 pm
Held in our classroom

CHECK THIS DATE FOR ACCURACY HERE:
Final Exam Schedules		 Final Exam – Exam is open book. Open book means only your textbook – no homework or other aids. Exam covers everything in the course, with emphasis on the materials after Quiz B. Approximate target coverage:
20% Quiz A
30% Quiz B
50% after Quiz B
You are also permitted to 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 outside of my office.

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CVEN 345 – Structures – 2008

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Lectures and Notes – 2008C

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, please click here.

Lecture videos Class Notes Materials covered
Class 1
Tuesday		 345_08-26-08 Real Video
 Download Real Video 		 345_08-26-08.pdf Introduction to course, tributary areas for beams and columns.
Class 2
Thursday		 345_08-28-08 Real Video
 Download Real Video		 345_08-28-08.pdf Reductions in live loads, tributary areas, wind pressures, truck loadings.
Class 3
Tuesday		 345_09-02-08 Real Video
 Download Real VideoMp4 video

HTML5 video

 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 345_10-16-08.pdf Deflections by Real Work, Virtual Work.
Class 17
Tuesday		 345_10-21-08 Real Video
 Download Real Video		 345_10-21-08.pdf Using Virtual Work to determine deflections for beams and frames.
Class 18
Thursday		 345_10-23-08 Real Video
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 345_11-04-08.pdf Solution for indeterminate structures using the Slope Deflection Method
Class 22
Thursday		 345_11-06-08 Real Video
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 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
 Download Real Video		 345_11-25-08.pdf Review of Quiz B
Class 28
12/2/08		 345_12-02-08 Real Video
  Download Real Video Real Video		 345_12-02-08.pdf Review of course for final exam – typical problems likely to appear on final.

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

CVEN 345 – Theory of Structures – 2011

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Lectures and Notes – 2011a

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 IPod/IPad stuff.  The Real Video files (.rm) are for use on your computer using Real Player. You will need Real Player to view the Real files. 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 “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 Notes files. The 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
Class 1
Tuesday
01-18-11		 345_08-26-08.rm
Download Real Video
MP4As always, computers are not that reliable. Nothing got recorded on this day, so the ’08 class is presented above.		 Notes for ’08 video:
345_08-26-08.pdfNotes for our class:
Class 1 Notes		 Introduction to course.
Class 2
Thursday
01-20-11		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4

Class 2 Mpeg4 Video

 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 Class 4 Notes Forces in truss members using Method of Joints and Method of Sections.
Class 5
Tuesday
02-01-11		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 Class 10 Notes Introduction to influence lines. Influence lines for statically determinate simply supported beams. Generation using statics.
Class 11
Tuesday
02-22-11		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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.
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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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.
Class 17
Tuesday
03-22-11		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 Class 17 Notes Deflections using the unit load method.  Trusses.  Beams.  Frames.  Volume Integrals.
Class 18
Thursday
03-24-11		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 Class 22 Notes Slope deflection example problems.
Class 23
Tuesday
04-12-11		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 Class 28 Notes Review of course for final exam – typical problems likely to appear on final.

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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CVEN 345 – Theory of Structures – 2013

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Lectures and Notes – 2013c Fall 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 iPod/iPad stuff.  The Real Video files (.rm) are for use on your computer using Real Player. You will need Real Player or Real Alternative to view the Real files. 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 “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 Notes files. The 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
Tuesday
8/27/13		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 Notes Introduction to course.  Loads on structures.
Material covered in text: pages 1-19.
Class 2
Thursday
8/29/13		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4		 Notes Static Determinacy, Indeterminacy, and Instability of Plane Frames
Material covered in text: pages 196-200
Class 10
Thursday
9/26/13		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 Notes Deflections of structures using Virtual Work
Material covered in text: pages 293-299
Class 12
Thursday
10/3/13		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 Notes Deflections of structures using Virtual Work
Material covered in text: pages 293-299
Week 7
Class 13
Tuesday
10/8/13		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 Notes Solution to statically indeterminate beams.
Material covered in text: pages 524-530
Class 16
Thursday
10/17/13		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 Notes Solution to statically indeterminate frames.
Material covered in text: pages 524-530
Week 9
Class 17
Tuesday
10/22//13		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 Notes Solving for redundants on multiply indeterminate structures
Class 18
Thursday
10/24/13		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 Notes  Detailed notes on solving for influence lines by Mueller-Breslau method.  Example problems.
Week 11
Class 21
Tuesday
11/5/13		  Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 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		  Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 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		  Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 Notes Approximate analysis of structures.
Class 24
Thursday
11/14/13		  Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 Notes Approximate analysis of structures – portal method.
Week 13
Class 25
Tuesday
11/19/13		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 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		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 Notes Use of Slope Deflection method on beams.
Week 14
Class 27
Tuesday
11/26/13		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 Notes Use of Slope Deflection method on frames.
Class 28
Thursday
12/3/13		 Real Video
Download Real Video
MP4
MOV		 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

 

CVEN 345 – Structural Analysis – 2015

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Lectures and Notes – 2015c

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

The Lectures are MP4 for phones or IPod stuff, or Real Video (.rm) files. You will need Real Player or Real Alternative to view the Real files. 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 “Download” 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.

The MP4 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/2015bLectures.htm

Lecture videos Class Notes Materials covered
Week 1
Class 1
Monday
8/31		 Mov
MP4		 Class 1.pdf
Class 2
Wednesday
9/2		 Mov
MP4		 Class 2.pdf
Class 3
Friday
9/4		 Mov
MP4		 Class 3.pdf
Week 2
Class 4
Monday
9/7		 Mov
MP4		 Class 4.pdf
Class 5
Wednesday
9/9		 Mov
MP4  Alternate MP4		 Class 5.pdf
Class 6
Friday
9/11		 Mov
MP4		 Class 6.pdf
Week 3
Class 7
Monday
9/14		 Mov
MP4		 Class 7.pdf
Class 8
Wednesday
9/16		 Out sick
Class 9
Friday
9/18		 Dr. Harry Jones
Review – shear and bending moment diagrams
Mov
MP4		 Class 9.pdf
Week 4
Class 10
Monday
9/21		 Mov
MP4		 Class 10.pdf
Class 11
Wednesday
9/23		 Mov
MP4		 Class 11.pdf
Class 12
Friday
9/25		 Mov
MP4		 Class 12.pdf
Week 5
Class 13
Monday
9/28		 Mov
MP4		 Class 13.pdf
Class 14
Wednesday
9/30		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 15
Friday
10/2		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Week 6
Class 16
Monday
10/5		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 17
Wednesday
10/7		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 18
Friday
10/9		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Week 7
Class 19
Monday
10/12		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 20
Wednesday
10/14		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 21
Friday
10/16		 Quiz A Quiz A
Week 8
Class 22
Monday
10/19		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 23
Wednesday
10/21		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 24
Friday
10/23		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Week 9
Class 25
Monday
10/26		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 26
Wednesday
10/28		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 27
Friday
10/30		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Week 10
Class 28
Monday
11/2		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 29
Wednesday
11/4		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 30
Friday
11/6		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Week 11
Class 31
Monday
11/9		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 32
Wednesday
11/11		 Quiz B Quiz B
Class 33
Friday
11/13		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Week 12
Class 34
Monday
11/16		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 35
Wednesday
11/18		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 36
Friday
11/20		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Week 13
Class 37
Monday
11/23		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Reading Day
Wednesday
11/25		 Reading Day Reading Day
Thanksgiving
Friday
11/27		 Thanksgiving Thanksgiving
Week 14
Class 38
Monday
11/30		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 39
Wednesday
12/2		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Class 40
Wednesday
12/4		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes
Week 15
Class 41
Monday
12/7		 Sad.  Really sad.  Equipment failed again.
Classs notes are complete, including exactly how to solve the problem.		 Class Notes
Class 42
Wednesday
12/9		 Mov
MP4		 Class Notes

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

CVEN 345 – Structural Analysis – 2016c

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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 http://ceprofs.tamu.edu/llowery/cven345/Lectures/2015cLectures.htm

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

Office Hours

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Scene from Lowery’s office when he was office in the CE/TTI building.

Students getting help, just before Quiz A. Line extends out the door to the elevator.

DON’T WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO GET HELP!

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CVEN 345-502 Syllabus

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THEORY OF STRUCTURES (CRN 10980)
Fall 2017 – C.E. Room 118
TR 8:00 am – 9:15 am

PLEASE NOTE: Please check for changes in homework assignment due dates before working your next problems. They sometimes change.

NOTE ALSO THAT AS THE SYLLABUS CHANGES (AND IT ALWAYS DOES), YOU WILL HAVE TO RELOAD IT, OR IT WILL GO INTO 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 the tutors, or me earlier in the week.

Teaching Associates:  See list on Help Desk: 

HELP DESK HOURS – FALL 2017  In the old pi R^2 room, ground floor of the Dwight Look building (formerly the CE/TTI 8 story building).  Has sign on desk: Help Desk CVEN Mechanics.  They run a full-blown help desk for our class.  

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 expensive 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, except sometimes the homework problem numbers are changed.

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
DealOz
Amazon.com
Allbookstores.com
TextbooksRush.com
AbeBooks.com <- best chance of getting an international edition
Half.com
Textbooks.com

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 for 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 problems & Readiness Assessment Tests (RATs) (10 points each per problem/RAT unless otherwise noted) = 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 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 solutions.  SP = special problem.  Click on link for the problem.
Aug 29
Class 1		  Introduction: Statically Determinate Reactions, Moment Diagrams Chapters
1, 3, 4.1-4.3		 Class Homework Assignments
[Note that India International Textbook homework problem numbers are in brackets.]A1) 3.8, 3.9[3.11],
3.18[3.15], 3.34[3.26] Due Sept 7th at beginning of class.
Aug 31
Class 2		 Moment Equations, Analysis of Trusses – Method of Joints. 4.4-4.5 A2) 4.6[4.6], 4.12[4.22], 4.15[4.17], SP1
Due Sept 12th 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.
Sep 5
Class 3		  Analysis of Trusses – Method of Sections. Chapters 4.6 – 4.7 A3) 4.31[4.31], 4.32[4.33], 4.33[4.34] , 4.38[4.42], 4.46[4.47] (members JK and DE only), SP2
Due Sept 14th at 8:00 a.m.
Sep 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[3.2], 4.47[4.46] (member IH only), 4.49[4.50] (only members DE, EK, NO), 5.35[5.51], 5.39
Also due Sept 14th at 8:00 a.m.
Sep 12
Class 5		  Shear and bending moment diagrams in frames.    Equations for bending moment diagrams. Chapters 5.3-5.4 A5) 4.3[4.5], 5.44[5.31], 5.51[5.35], SP3
Due Sept 19th at 8:00 a.m.
Sep 14
Class 6

 Beams and Frames – Shear and moment diagrams

Detailed procedures for drawing shear and moment diagrams

 Chapter 5.5 A6)  5.52[5.54], 5.56[5.55], 5.57[5.64], 5.59[5.60], SP4
Note on SP4 through SP8, there is a pin at A and a roller at G.
Due Sept 21st at 8:00 a.m.
Sep 19
Class 7

Beams and Frames – Shear and moment diagrams

Interactive shear and moment diagram practice module

 Chapters 5.6 A7) 5.65[5.70], 5.69[5.61], 5.70[5.65], SP5
From now on all problems due 7 days from date assigned.
Sep 21
Class 8		 Deflections by Direct Integration Chapters 6.1-6.3 A8) 6.1[6.4], 6.5[6.3], 6.7[6.8], SP6
Sep 26
Class 9		  Beams and Frames – Deflections by Work-Energy Chapter 7.1, 7.2 A9) 7.1[7.1], 7.3[7.3], 7.5[7.5], SP7
Sep 28
Class 10		 “ Chapter 7.3, 7.4 No homework assigned for  today.
to hand in on day of Quiz A
Oct 3
Class 11		 “ Chapter 7.5 A10) 7.11, 7.16, 7.20, 7.22, SP8
Due date is still Oct 10th.  However, rather than delay starting Quiz A, please hang onto it  and hand it in with the assignment due on Oct. 12.
Oct 5
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, SP9 Omit
Oct 10
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
Oct 12
Class 14		 Chapter 13.1 Chapter 13.1 A12) 7.26, 7.31, 7.36
Oct 17
Class 15		 Introduction to solution for statically indeterminate structures using flexibility method/consistent distortions. Chapter 13.1 A13) 7.38, 7.39, 7.45, 7.50
Oct 19
Class 16		 “ Chapter 13.2 A14) 13.1, 13.2, 13.10, (13.16-Use Rb as the redundant)
Oct 24
Class 17		 Statically indeterminate structures with multiple degrees of indeterminacy using consistent distortions – Flexibility Method Chapter 13.3 A15) Use reactions listed below as redundants on the following problems:
(13.18 – Use Rbh), (13.20 – Use Rdh), (13.20a Solve 13.20 again using Rdv)
Oct 26
Class 18		 See how to use MASTAN2 – Video
Get the MASTAN2 program here		 Chapter 13.3 A16) (13.26 – use Rch), (13.27 – use Rcv), (13.27a Solve 13.27 again using Rdv)
Oct 31
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), (13.43 – use Rav and Rah), 13.49
Nov 2
Class 20

Read Chapters 8 and 9READ: How to construct and use influence lines

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.)

Muller-Breslau Principle, Use of Influence Lines

 No homework today
Nov 7
Class 21		 Moving Loads,
Influence Lines for Structures		 A18) 8.5, 8.10, 8.16, 8.20, SP9
This assignment is due 7 days from today.  However, since we will be taking a quiz that day, please hang onto it and hand it in with assignment A19.
Nov 9
Class 22

Use of influence lines to determine where to put live, dead, uniform, concentrated loads and compute maximum results.

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 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 shape of the influence diagram.

 A19) 8.19, 8.21, 8.38, SP10
Nov 14
Class 23

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

Covers everything above covered in class through Chapter 7, plus Chapter 13, problem 13.20.

A20) 9.4, 9.6

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
Nov 16
Class 24		 Use of influence lines for series of wheel loads.  Chapter 14: Influence lines for statically indeterminate structures.  Closure on use of influence lines. Chapter 9 A21) 9.21, 12.2, 12.6, 12.9, SP13.1
Nov 21
Class 25		 Chapter 2: Loads on structures.  Wind Loads.
http://windspeed.atcouncil.org/		 Chapter 2 A22) 14.1*, 14.15*, 14.19*, SP5
*Shapes of diagrams only! NO values.
Nov 28
Class 26		 Approximate solutions to statically indeterminate structures.
Vertical loads, Portal Method		 Chapter 12 A23) 2.3[2.1], 2.4[2.2], 2.5[2.7]
Nov 30
Class 27		 Stiffness methods Chapter 15  A24) 2.9[2.10], 2.12[2.12], 2.13[2.15] Due December 5th.
Dec 5
Class 28		 Stiffness methods

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 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 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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