Course Details

Structural Mechanics 2

Academic Year 2025/26

BDA016 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-APS Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Hana Šimonová, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Mechanics

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289643

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  1. Types of structures in civil engineering. Types of loads acting on a structure. Influence lines for statically determinate structures.
  2. Principle of virtual work, Lagrange’s equations. Maxwell–Betti reciprocal work theorem. Maxwell–Mohr’s integral. Vereshchagin’s rule.
  3. Deflections and rotations of statically determinate straight beams, frames and trusses – unit dummy force method.
  4. Methods for analysis of statically indeterminate structures, degree of static and kinematic indeterminacy of structures. Principle of force method.
  5. Three-moment equation method for continuous beam analysis. Force and deflection load. Utilisation of symmetry of beam shape.
  6. Force method – statically indeterminate plane frames. Selection of statically indeterminate variables. Effect of temperature changes and support settlement.
  7. Force method – statically indeterminate truss.
  8. Principle of direct stiffness method. Computational model and degree of kinematic indeterminacy
  9. General form of direct stiffness method – matrix form, analysis of straight beam with constant cross-section. Load vector and stiffness matrix.
  10. Slope deflection method – end moments and forces. Analysis of continuous beam.
  11. Slope deflection method – plane frame analysis.
  12. Direct stiffness method – continuous beam analysis.
  13. Direct stiffness method – plane frame analysis.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  1. Influence lines for statically determinate structures.
  2. Deflections and rotations of statically determinate straight beams, frames and trusses – unit dummy force method. Vereshchagin’s rule.
  3. Force method – statically indeterminate straight beams.
  4. Three-moment equation method – continuous beam analysis. Force method – statically indeterminate plane frame.
  5. Force method – statically indeterminate plane frame. Degree of kinematic indeterminacy.
  6. Slope deflection method – plane frame analysis.
  7. Credit