• Fall 2012 Syllabus

• Academic Integrity
  
• Dean's Excuse for Short-Term and Long-Term Illness

• Background and Review Materials
  • MecMovies: Review of Solid Mechanics from the Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Qualitative Analysis, Colin Caprini, Dublin Institute of Technology
  • Deflections and Slopes of Beams from the Czech Technical University in Prague
  • Links to some Matlab tutorials
  • Handbook of Structural Engineering, CRC Press, Wai-Fah Chen Editor
    

• Strain Energy, Virtual Work, and Castigliano's Theorems
  • Strain Energy in Linear Elastic Solids
  • Introduction to The Principle of Virtual Work
  • The Principle of Virtual Work
  • The Principle of Virtual Work and Superposition - synopsis
  • The Theorems of Castigliano
  • The Theorems of Castigliano and Superposition - synopsis
  • Theorems of Maxwell, Betti, and Castigliano
  • Four Strain Energy Concepts in Pictures
  • Review of Strain Energy Methods and Introduction to Stiffness Matrix Methods

• The Matrix Stiffness Method for Trusses
  • Introduction to Stiffness Matrix Assembly for Trusses
  • The Matrix Stiffness Method for 2D Trusses
  • Stiffness Matrix Reference Sheet for 2D Truss Bars
  • Geometric Stiffness Effects in 2D Trusses
  • 3D Truss Analysis

• The Matrix Stiffness Method for Beams
  • Beam Element Stiffness Matrices
  • The Beam Element Stiffness Matrix Poem

• The Matrix Stiffness Method for Frames
  • Frame Element Stiffness Matrices
  • The Matrix Stiffness Method for 2D Frames
  • Geometric Stiffness Effects in 2D and 3D Frames
  • Static and Dynamic Structural Analysis of 2D and 3D Frames with Elastic and Geometric Stiffness

• Applications of The Matrix Stiffness Method
  • Real Modes of Vibration of Building Structures
  • Buckling Analysis of a Slender Tower Under Gravity Loads (tower.3dd)

• Some Matrix Math
  • Solving Partitioned Stiffness Matrix Equations
  • Mathematical Properties of Stiffness Matrices

• A Historical Outline of Matrix Structural Analysis: A Play in Three Acts, by Carlos A. Felippa, Univ. of Colorado

• The Citicorp Building
  • Post-Modernism in Urban Architecture: The Citicorp Center
  • City Perils: The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis, by Joe Morgenstern, The New Yorker, May 29, 1995.
    Click here to read a Belorussian translation by Galina Miclosic.
  • William LeMessurier: The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis; A Lesson in Professional Behavior from onlineethics.org
  • (RE)EXAMINING THE CITICORP CASE: Ethical Paragon or Chimera, by Eugene Kremer on crosscurrents.org
• World Trade Center Building Performance Study: Data Collection, Preliminary Observations, and Recommendations. FEMA 403, May 2002

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