Course
Information - Outline of general information including policies, grading and
course outline.
S.U.N.Y. College of Technology
at Delhi
Fall, 2011
Table of Contents:
| “Structural Engineering is the ART of molding material we do not wholly understand into shapes we cannot precisely analyze so as to withstand forces we cannot totally assess; in such a way that others have no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.” |
Course
Information - Outline of general information including policies, grading and
course outline.
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Lab Assignments & other stuff: |
| Framing Layout Lab Assignment (updated Sept. 19th) |
| Lab Assignment - Arches & Hinged Beam Analysis (SOLUTION) |
| Final Project |
| Plastruct - Plastic modeling supplies! |
| Advertisement for portable control tower! |
| Lecture: | Topic: |
| 1 | Introduction, course info., review of units |
| 2 | Forces, resultants |
| 3 | Beams - reactions, shears, moments |
| 4 | Section Properties - area, centroid, moment of inertia, sect. mod., etc. |
| 5 | Section Properties - Moment of Inertia of non-symmetric shapes |
| 6 | Section Properties - composite shapes |
| 7 | Stress-strain relationships, modulus of elasticity, simple stresses |
| 8 | Stresses - shear and bending |
| 9 | Poisson's ratio, toughness, creep, fatigue, thermal stresses |
| 10 | Torque and torsion |
| 11 | Beam deflections, combined stresses |
| 12 | Test 1 |
| 13 | Friction - retaining walls |
| 14 | Arches |
| 15 | Negative bending & continuous beams |
| 16 | Frame analysis |
| 17 | Frame analysis - approximate methods |
| 18 | Truss analysis |
| 19 | Truss analysis (cont.) |
| 20 | Computer structural analysis |
| 21 | Intro. to the International Building Code (IBC) |
| 22 | IBC - Building dead loads, live loads and load combinations |
| 23 | IBC - Snow loads |
| 24 | IBC - Wind loads |
| 25 | IBC - Wind loads (cont.) |
| 26 | IBC - Seismic principles |
| 27 | IBC - Seismic loads |
| 28 | Test 2 - (Covering Lectures 13 thru 25) |
| 29 | Timber design - beams |
| 30 | Timber design - columns |
| 31 | Timber design - connections |
| 32 | Steel design - tension members and beams |
| 33 | Steel design - columns |
| 34 | Steel design - connections |
| 35 | Concrete design - beams and slabs |
| 36 | Concrete design - continuous slabs & beams, columns |
| 37 | Test 3 - (Lectures 26 thru 34) |
| 38 | Lateral force resisting systems - braced members |
| 39 | Lateral force resisting systems - shear walls |
| 40 | Lateral force resisting systems - diaphragms |
| 41 | Structural systems and engineering practice |
| 42 | Comprehensive Final Exam |
