THEORY OF STRUCTURES - III
DETAIL SYLLABUS
BASIC CONCEPTS
REVISION OF VECTORS
INTRODUCTION TO MATRIX METHOD
FLEXIBILITY METHOD
STIFFNESS METHOD
INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS
PRACTICAL
BOOKS
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
AUTHORS: R.C.COATES, M. G. COUTIE AND F. K . Kong
ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURE
AUTHOR: H. H. WEST
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
AUTHOR: ALEXANDER CHAJES
CLASSICAL STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
AUTHOR: ANTHONY E. ARMENKAS
INTERMEDIATE STRUCUTRAL ANALYSIS
AUTHOR: C. K. WANG
BOOKS
DYNAMICS OF STRUCTURES
THEORY AND APPLICATIONS TO EARTHQUAKE
ENGINEERING
AUTHOR: ANIL K. CHOPRA
DYNAMICS OF STRUCTURES
AUTHOR: MAREOPAUZ
REFRESHING OF BASIC CONCEPTS
WHAT IS CORRESPONDING TO FORCE?
WHAT IS CORRESPONDING TO STRESS?
WHAT IS CORRESPONDING TO INTERNAL FORCE?
HOW WE CAN FIND A FORCE ACTING ON A CROSS SECTION?
HOW MANY EQUATIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN 3D?
HOW MANY EQUATIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN 2D?
PROPORTIONALITY AND REVERSIBILITY BETWEEN STRESS AND STRAIN IS
TERMED AS?
WHAT IS RIGID BODY MOVEMENT?
WHAT IS LINEARITY HOW CAN DEFINE IT MATHEMATICALLY?
CAN A NON LINEARITY EXISTS EVEN MATERIAL PROPERTIES ARE LINEAR
WHAT ARE INDEPENDENTS AND DEPENDENTS, EXAMPLE?
BASIC CONCEPTS
DISPLACEMENTS AND CORRESPONDING DISPLACEMENTS
UNDER APPLICATION OF A FORCE SYSTEM STRUCTURE UNDER GOES
DEFORMATIONS AND ACCELERATIONS UNTIL IT COMES IN EQUILIBRIUM UNDER
CHANGED LOADING CONDITIONS
THE APPLIED FORCE SYSTEM CAN TAKE ANY FORM BUT THE REACTION SYSTEM
WILL DEPEND ON BOUNDARY CONDITIONS, MATERIAL AND SHAPE OF THE
ELEMENT
THERE CAN BE INFINITE REACTIONS BUT DUE TO AVAILABLE EQUATIONS WE
ONLY CONSIDER 3 OR 6 FOR 2 D OR 3 D ANALYSIS
THE DISPLACEMENTS WHICH OCCUR IN DIRECTION OF THE LOAD ARE CALLED
AS CORRESPONDING DISPLACEMENTS
SIMILARLY WE HAVE STRESS CORRESPONDING STRAIN AND INTERNAL FORCES
AND CORRESPONDING DEFORMATIONS
OUT OF THESE PAIRS WE CAN DEFINE ANY ONE AND REMAINING CAN BE
DETERMINED ACCORDINGLY
BASIC CONCEPTS
DEFINING SYSTEM OF FORCES AND STRUCTURE
FORCES ARE RESOLVED IN PRINCIPLE DIRECTIONS
THE ELEMENTS HAVE LOCAL AXIS AND THE STRUCTURE IS DEFINED IN THE
GLOBAL AXIS
VERY RARELY, WHEN WE HAVE SMALLER NUMBER OF FORCES, WE MAY NOT
RESOLVE THEM AND DEFINE INDEPENDENT SYSTEM. THIS KIND OF SYSTEM
CANNOT BE USED IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
BASIC CONCEPTS
DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT ACTIONS AND DISPLACEMENTS
IN 2D SYSTEM WHEN WE HAVE GREATER NUMBER OF FORCES THEN THE
EQUATIONS THEN WE CAN DEFINE 3 FORCES AND REMAINING CAN BE DEFINED
IN CORRESPONDING TO THOSE DEFINED
THE DISPLACEMENT OF BEAM END POINTS
THE CHANGE IN DISTANCE IS DEPENDENT ON THE STIFFNESS OF THE ELEMENT
THE BEAM FLEXIBILITY AND COMPRESSION IN SPRINGS
BASIC CONCEPTS
SUPER POSITION OF ACTIONS AND DISPLACEMENTS INFLUENCE
COEFFICIENTS
THE LOAD DISPLACEMENT RELATION WILL BE PROPORTIONAL IF THERE IS NO
GEOMETRIC OR MATERIAL CONSTRAINT
FOR A ELEMENT WHICH HAS PROPORTIONALITY AND REVERSIBILITY BETWEEN
STRESS AND STRAIN.
THE INCREMENTS IN
DISPLACEMENTS CAN BE SUPERIMPOSED
FORCE AND CORRESPONDING
BASIC CONCEPTS
GEOMETRIC OR LOADING CONDITIONS CAN CAUSE NONLINEARITY
EXAMPLE OF BEAM
USE OF COMPATIBILITY
EXPLANATION OF FLEXIBILITY
EXPLANATION OF STIFFNESS
FLEXIBILITY COEFFICIENT