Structural mechanics (for GC)

CIVIL-238 / 6 credits

Teacher: Vassilopoulos Anastasios

Language: English

Summary

The course discusses the basic principles of structural mechanics, analyzing the performance of materials and structures against loading and focuses on the stress strain relationships and the effect of axial, bending, shear and torsional loadings on engineer structures.

Content

Week 1. Introduction and revision of key concepts

Week 2. Center of gravity and moments of inertia

Week 3. Stress strain and constitutive equations.

Week 4. Axial loaded members/Statically indeterminate members

Week 5. Bending of beams

Week 6. Bending of composite beams

Week 7. Beams in flexure, shear stress

Week 8. Beam deflections

Week 9. The shear center

Week 10. Torsion

Week 11. Combined loading and stress transformation

Week 12. Combined loadings and strain transformation

Week 13. Theory of elasticity of isotropic media

Week 14. Failure criteria

 

Keywords

Mechanics of materials, stresses in structures, stress-strain relationships, theory of elasticity for isotropic media, beam theory, deflections in beams, failure criteria

Learning Prerequisites

Required courses

  • CIVIL-124: Statique (pour GC)
  • CIVIL-128: Introduction aux structures

Recommended courses

  • CIVIL-225: Mécanique des milieux continus (pour GC)
  • MATH-207d: Analyse IV

 

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student must be able to:

  • Assess / Evaluate a loaded structure
  • Analyze /Compute- stresses, strains and deformations
  • Assess / Evaluate structural integrity.

Transversal skills

  • Assess progress against the plan, and adapt the plan as appropriate.
  • Plan and carry out activities in a way which makes optimal use of available time and other resources.
  • Set objectives and design an action plan to reach those objectives.
  • Use a work methodology appropriate to the task.
  • Continue to work through difficulties or initial failure to find optimal solutions.

Teaching methods

Lectures assisted by power point presentations and blackboard.

Exercises for each subject are implemented to lectures as examples and additional exercises are distributed during selected in class exercise sessions and as "take home" exercises.

Flexible schedule to implement exercises during lectures' sessions and theory during exercises' sessions to assist the learning process.

Use of:

  • Power point presentations.
  • Blackboard.
  • In-class exercises (in selected exercise sessions).
  • Take home exercises.
  • In class and "take home" exercises' solutions
  • Computational tools for facilitating learning.

Expected student activities

  • Weekly in-class exercises in class and takeaway, study at home and interact with the teaching staff.

Assessment methods

  • Final written exam

Supervision

Office hours No
Assistant.e.s Yes
Forum Yes
Others

Resources

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

No

Bibliography

Popov E. Mechanics of Materials

Hibbeler R. C. Mechanics of materials

Gere, JM., and Timoshenko, SP. Mechanics of Materials

Bedenik, B, Besant, C. Analysis of engineering structures

And other books on mechanics of materials

Ressources en bibliothèque

Notes/Handbook

  • The course lectures, In-class exercises, exercise sets are provided weekly through Moodle.
  • The course does not follow a specific textbook.

Moodle Link

Prerequisite for

  • Design of steel structures
  • Design of concrete structures
  • Geoetechnical engineering
  • Structural analysis
  • Advanced steel design
  • Structural stability
  • Structural dynamics
  • Seismic engineering

 

In the programs

  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Structural mechanics (for GC)
  • Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • TP: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: mandatory
  • Semester: Spring
  • Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
  • Subject examined: Structural mechanics (for GC)
  • Courses: 3 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Exercises: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • TP: 1 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
  • Type: mandatory

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