Course Details
Structural Mechanics 2
Academic Year 2024/25
BDA016 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-APS Summer Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
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
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- Types of structures in civil engineering. Types of loads acting on a structure. Influence lines for statically determinate structures.
- Principle of virtual work, Lagrange’s equations. Maxwell–Betti reciprocal work theorem. Maxwell–Mohr’s integral. Vereshchagin’s rule.
- Deflections and rotations of statically determinate straight beams, frames and trusses – unit dummy force method.
- Methods for analysis of statically indeterminate structures, degree of static and kinematic indeterminacy of structures. Principle of force method.
- Three-moment equation method for continuous beam analysis. Force and deflection load. Utilisation of symmetry of beam shape.
- Force method – statically indeterminate plane frames. Selection of statically indeterminate variables. Effect of temperature changes and support settlement.
- Force method – statically indeterminate truss.
- Principle of direct stiffness method. Computational model and degree of kinematic indeterminacy
- General form of direct stiffness method – matrix form, analysis of straight beam with constant cross-section. Load vector and stiffness matrix.
- Slope deflection method – end moments and forces. Analysis of continuous beam.
- Slope deflection method – plane frame analysis.
- Direct stiffness method – continuous beam analysis.
- Direct stiffness method – plane frame analysis.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- Influence lines for statically determinate structures.
- Deflections and rotations of statically determinate straight beams, frames and trusses – unit dummy force method. Vereshchagin’s rule.
- Force method – statically indeterminate straight beams.
- Three-moment equation method – continuous beam analysis. Force method – statically indeterminate plane frame.
- Force method – statically indeterminate plane frame. Degree of kinematic indeterminacy.
- Slope deflection method – plane frame analysis.
- Credit