Courses Handbook 2007 - [ Archived ]

302788 (v.1) Structural Analysis 365


Area:

Department of Civil Engineering

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

4.5
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

2 x 2.5 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

    302783 (v.1) Civil and Structural Analysis 262 or any previous version
    OR
    308868 (v.1) Structural Analysis 268 or any previous version
 

Syllabus:

Structural analysis - revision of concepts, stiffness, flexibility, indeterminate structures, bending moments and matrix operations. Approximate methods of analysis. Application software - Multiframe, microSTRAN and space gas. Stiffness and flexibility matrices for individual members. Stiffness method - procedure. Stiffness method - applied to trusses, beams and frames. Flexibility method - procedure and concepts, applied to trusses, beams and frames. Self-straining of structures. Deformation analysis. Structural dynamics (vibration). Case studies of analytical problems and engineering failures.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

030903 Structural Engineering

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2007 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2007 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

 
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