STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

CE 242                                                                                   No. of hrs/week   - 04

                                                                                                No. of credits    - 04

Deflection of Beams : Moment - area  method and conjugate beam method.                   06hrs  

Deflection of Beams and frames : Castiglians’s I^st theorem. Evaluation of deflection in beams, pin-jointed and stiff-jointed frames by the strain energy method. Unit load technique.     08hrs

Three hinged arches : Analysis of three-hinged parabolic arches for horizontal thrust, bending moment, radial shear and normal thrust.                                                                                04hrs

Analysis of statically indeterminate structures :

Static indeterminacy. Analysis of propped cantilevers, fixed beams, 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.

                                                                                                                                                22hrs

Analysis of indeterminate structures by stiffness methods like Slope –deflection method and Moment distribution methods.                                                                                                         14hrs

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.

C.S.Reddy - Basic Structural Analysis.

James C Grassie: Structural Analysis, Vol I and II

J. Sterling Kinney : Structural Analysis