
Course Objectives: {Assessment Methods Shown in Braces}
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Students will demonstrate the ability to apply equilibrium principles to calculate reactions, analyze truss, beam, and frame structures and to create axial, shear, and bending moment diagrams for beams and frame members. {1,2,3,4} | |
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Students will demonstrate the ability to use virtual work to solve equilibrium problems. {1,2,3,4} | |
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Students will demonstrate the ability to use equilibrium to draw influence lines for trusses, beams, and frames. {1,2,3} | |
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Students will demonstrate the ability to use the Mueller-Breslau principle to draw influence lines for trusses, beams and frames. {1,2,3,4} | |
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Students will demonstrate the ability to use the concept of strain energy to calculate displacements of elastic bodies such as trusses, beams, and frames. {1,2,3,4} | |
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Students will demonstrate the ability to develop and apply more advanced methods of structural analysis such as the principles of work, energy, and superposition. {1,2,3,4} | |
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Students will demonstrate the ability to recognize a statically indeterminate structure and understand the implications. {1,2,3,4} | |
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Students will demonstrate the ability to identify correct “basic structures” of the indeterminate structure and routinely analyze simple statically indeterminate structures. {1,2,3,4} |
Assessment Methods:
Homework
Quizzes
Team Projects
Exam