Syllabus: CES 6106 - Advanced Structural Analysis
Instructor: Prof. Hoit, 204a Weil, Email: Mhoit@ce.ufl.edu
Office Hours: See office door for posted hours or by appointment
Class: MTWTh 12:50, 238 MEB
Text: Matrix Structural Analysis, 2nd edition, McGuire, Gallagher, Ziemian, Wiley, 2000
Course Info: Look at the website for files, software and homework. http://www.ce.ufl.edu/~mih/
Grading: The grade will be based on two exams, a final and homework. Each exam is worth 25%. The final is worth 30%. The homework is worth 20%.
Homework: Homework will be assigned in class. Late homework will be accepted at a 5% deduction per day. There will be both hand and computer assignments. The computer assignments will consist of using MathCAD and the SSTAN program. MathCAD is available in the CE computer lab or you can purchase your own version. SSTAN is downloadable from the web at: http://www.ce.ufl.edu/software/
Objectives: The course has the following objectives.
- Analyze 2-D and 3-D frame and truss structures
- Validate the computer solution of 2-D and 3-D structures
- Simulate different structural boundary conditions for computer solutions
- Know the limitations of computer solutions and the effects on structural response
- Choose the appropriate modeling for analysis of a structure including Finite elements
Course Topics
- Review
- Virtual Work
- Bending
- Shear Deformation
- Temperature Deformations
- Virtual Work
- Flexibility Methods
- Multiple indeterminate structures
- Temperature and Support settlement
- Stiffness Methods
- Intuitive Stiffness Method
- Direct Stiffness Method
- Element Derivations
- Specialized Elements
- Transformation matrices
- Loading between Nodes (Fixed End forces)
- Non-uniform elements
- Computer Analysis of Structures
- 2-D and 3-D structures
- Support settlements
- Panel deformations
- Rigid End Offsets
- Symmetry & Anti-symmetry
- Geometric Nonlinearities & Buckling
- Stability
- Finite Elements
- Plane stress
- Plate Element