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References/Teaching Materials/
Week Lecture/Tutorial/Assignment Topic
Equipment
1 Strain Energy and Virtual Works: External work and strain energy,
Principle of virtual work, method of virtual work for trusses. Reference Book, Lecture Notes

Strain Energy and Virtual Works: Method of virtual work for beams and Reference Book, Lecture Notes
2
frames, fundamentals in applications to statically indeterminate
structures.
3 Energy and Reciprocal Theorem: Maxwell’s Theorems and Betti’s Law, Reference Book, Lecture Notes
Castigliano’s Theorem for trusses.

4 Energy and Reciprocal Theorem: Castigliano’s Theorem for beams and Reference Book, Lecture Notes
frames.

5 Force or Flexibility Method: Principles of force method of analysis, Reference Book, Lecture Notes
force method of analysis for beams and frames.
6 Flexibility Method: Force method of analysis for trusses, principles of Reference Book, Lecture Notes
flexibility matrix method

7 Reference Book, Lecture Notes
Flexibility Method: Principles of flexibility matrix method

8 Moving Loads and Influence Lines: Introduction to influence lines, Reference Book, Lecture Notes
influence lines for beams, live shear and moment.
9 Moving Loads and Influence Lines: Influence lines for floor girders and Reference Book, Lecture Notes
trusses.

10 Moving Loads and Influence Lines: Live loads for bridges and moving Reference Book, Lecture Notes
loads, introduction to Muller-Breslau’s Principle.

11 Moving Loads and Influence Lines – Muller-Breslau’s Principle, Reference Book, Lecture Notes
influence lines for statically indeterminate structures.
12 Plastic Analysis Method: Plastic modulus, shape factors, collapse load Reference Book, Lecture Notes
factors, ultimate moment, theorem of plastic analysis, plastic hinges,

elementary and combined mechanisms of collapse.
13 Plastic Analysis Method: Static equilibrium method, mechanism Reference Book, Lecture Notes
method, method of analysis for beams.
14 Plastic Analysis Method: Static equilibrium method, mechanism Reference Book, Lecture Notes
method, method of analysis for portal and gable frames.

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