Structural Analysis I
Loads and NBC load combinations, determinate beams, trusses, frames, cables and arches, influence lines and moving loads (including the CL-625 truck), deflections by moment-area and virtual work, and an introduction to the force method.
CIV-224 Year 2 3 credits 12 lessons · 5 h 8 min
Offered by HSM University · Civil Engineering
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Idealize real structures as line models with appropriate supports and joints, and trace gravity and lateral load paths using tributary areas.
- Determine dead, live and snow loads and apply NBC limit states load combinations, including uplift checks with the low dead load factor.
- Classify plane structures as stable or unstable and determinate or indeterminate, and find reactions, including structures with internal hinges.
- Analyse plane trusses by the method of joints and the method of sections, and identify zero-force members.
- Draw shear and bending moment diagrams for determinate beams under point, uniform and linearly varying loads, including overhangs.
- Analyse determinate frames, including three-hinged portals, and draw axial, shear and moment diagrams on the tension side of each member.
- Analyse cables with the general cable theorem and three-hinged arches, and explain funicular shapes and thrust.
- Construct influence lines for beams and trusses by equilibrium and by the Müller-Breslau principle, and use them to place live loads.
- Find the maximum moment and shear caused by moving load groups such as crane wheels and the CSA S6 CL-625 truck.
- Compute beam slopes and deflections by double integration, the moment-area theorems and the conjugate beam method, and check serviceability limits.
- Compute displacements of trusses, beams and frames by virtual work, including temperature and fabrication effects.
- Analyse simple indeterminate beams by the force method, and explain the effects of continuity, settlement and temperature.
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h 8 min total · final exam
- 1 Structural systems, load paths and idealization 23 min · quiz
- 2 Design loads and load combinations 26 min · quiz
- 3 Stability, determinacy and support reactions 28 min · quiz
- 4 Plane trusses: joints, sections and zero-force members 24 min · quiz
- 5 Shear and moment diagrams for determinate beams 26 min · quiz
- 6 Determinate frames: axial force, shear and moment 26 min · quiz
- 7 Cables and arches 25 min · quiz
- 8 Influence lines for beams and trusses 24 min · quiz
- 9 Moving loads: crane wheels and design trucks 22 min · quiz
- 10 Deflections by integration and moment-area 29 min · quiz
- 11 Deflections by virtual work 29 min · quiz
- 12 Introduction to indeterminate structures: the force method 26 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Loads and NBC load combinations, determinate beams, trusses, frames, cables and arches, influence lines and moving loads (including the CL-625 truck), deflections by moment-area and virtual work, and an introduction to the force method.
Part of the Engineering stream, typically taken in year 2.