Course info

This is the course that paves way to structural engineering as it integrates everything the student learned about forces, stresses and deformation and applies it to simple structures. This course is a transition from mechanics of materials to plane structure analysis and offers an introduction to continuum mechanics.  It begins with special topics in mechanics of materials in flexure (e.g. Unsymmetrical bending; inelastic behavior; curved beams; non-homogeneous members) and torsion (e.g. shear center non-circular members). It also offers alternative methods in beam deflection methods (e.g. Superposition method and conjugate beam method). Energy methods was initially introduced as a method in determining beam deflections but will later on be developed and utilized for plane structure analysis (e.g. Trusses and frames). And lastly, an introduction to continuum mechanics with application to solid bodies.