302788 (v.1) Structural Analysis 365

Area:	Department of Civil Engineering
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	6.0
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:	3 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	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.
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Field of Education:	030903 Structural Engineering
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
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2010	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y

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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