STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

CE 242                                                                                  No. of hrs/week   - 04

                                                                                                No. of credits    - 04

Deflection of Beams : Moment - area  method and conjugate beam method.

Deflection of Beams and frames : Castiglians’s I^st theorem. Evaluation of deflection of beams, pin-jointed and stiff-jointed frames by the strain energy method. Unit load technique.

Three hinged arches : Analysis of three-hinged arches for horizontal thrust, bending moment, radial shear and normal thrust.

Analysis of statically indeterminate structures :

Static indeterminacy. Analysis of propped cantilevers, continuous beams, two hinged arches and simple frames by force methods like method of consistent deformation and strain energy method. Unit load technique and the concept of flexibility coefficients.

Analysis of indeterminate structures by stiffness methods like Slope –deflection method and Moment distribution methods.                    

REFERENCES :

1. Harold I.Laursen - Analysis of Structures.

2. C.K.Wang - Intermediate Structural Analysis.

3. Norris and Wilber - Elementary Structural Analysis.

4. Tadani - Structural Analysis.

5. C.S.Reddy - Basic Structural Analysis.