UAA Civil Engineering

CE 431 - Structural Analysis

4.0 Semester Credit Hours - Offered every Spring Semester - Required Course

Catalog Description

Review of statically determinate beams and trusses. Discusses shearing, bending moment and influence line diagrams for statically determinate and indeterminate structures. Includes deflections, elastic lines, and an introduction to matrix and computer analyses.

Course Objective

This course is designed to give junior civil engineering students the ability to analyze determinate and indeterminate structures using both classic and computer techniques.

Prerequisite(s)

ES 331 - Mechanics of Materials with a grade of "C" or better

Textbook(s) and/or Required Material

Structural Analysis, Kassimali, Thomson/PWS-Kent

Expected Outcomes

At the conclusion of this course, the successful students will have:

A basic understanding of:

• static determinate and indeterminate structures,
• concepts of virtual work and other energy principles,

the understanding of:

• Force Method for indeterminate beams and frames  
• Displacement Method for beams, trusses and frames,
• Moment Distribution Method for beams and frames,

the ability to:

• calculate internal forces, reaction forces and deflections for beams, trusses and frames,
• create moment, shear diagrams for statically determinate and indeterminate structures,
• create influence line diagrams,

• use computer software to analyze structures.

Topics Covered

Loads and stresses; review of trusses:  methods of joints and sections; computer methods in truss analysis; trusses by direct stiffness method; computer analysis of 2-D trusses; programs:  PRISM, COAST and SAP-90; review of internal forces in beams; diagrams of internal forces for frames; introduction to influence lines; diagrams of influence lines for beams and trusses; influence lines for trusses and frames; structural live loads; critical loading conditions due to live loads; introduction to virtual work method; graphical integration method; displacements by virtual work method; Maxwell-Bette's Law; introduction to the force method; indeterminate beams; frame and truss analyses by the force method, thermal effects, frost heaving; statically indeterminate beams by the displacement method; beams and simple frames by the slope-deflection method; no sidesway; frames with sidesway by the slope-deflection method; introduction to the moment distribution met; sidesway and multisory frame analyses by the moment distribution method.

Class/Laboratory Schedule

1. Lecture hours per week:  4
2. Laboratory hours per week:  0
3. Expected hours outside the class:  90

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