634 Advanced Structural Analysis
634 Advanced Structural Analysis
Course Outline
Sr.No
. Topics Hours
Elasticity: Introduction, Components of strain and
strain, Hooke’s law, Plane stress and plane strain,
Equations of equilibrium and compatibility, Boundary
1. 9
conditions, Two dimensional problems in rectangularand
polar coordinates, Bending of simple and cantilever
Beams.
Flexibility and Stiffness Matrices: Flexibility and
2. Stiffness, Flexibility Matrix, Stiffness Matrix, Relationship 8
between flexibility and stiffness matrix, force and
displacement methods.
3. Transformation Matrices: Element Approach 8
Introduction, Force method, static analysis by method
of joints, displacement method, effect of axial
deformations of members.
Introduction to Finite element method for
structural analysis: Review of principle of virtual work,
4. 10
Ritz method, Discretization of domain, Basic
element shape, Discretization process.
Applications: Application of finite element method to
one and two- dimensional plane stress strain elements.
5. 10
Finite element programming – use of package
programmes.
Pedagogy
1. Interactive classroom teaching
2. Case study
3. PowerPoint presentation
Books Recommended
1. Devdas Menon, "Advanced Structural Analysis", Narosa Publishing House,2009.
2. AsslamKassimali, "Matrix Analysis of Structures", Brooks/Cole Publishing Co.,
USA, 1999.
3. Amin Ghali, Adam M Neville and Tom G Brown, "Structural Analysis: A Unified
Classical and Matrix Approach", Sixth Edition, 2007, Chapman & Hall.
4. Devdas Menon, "Structural Analysis", Narosa Publishing House, 2008.
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Benchmarked against similar courses in other national/ international
universities /organizations
Sr. Name of University where it
No. Name of the Course
is offered
1 Advanced Structural Analysis Anna University, Chennai
2 Advanced Structural Analysis IIT Bombay
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