C&EE XLC 235A
Advanced Structural Analysis
CEE 235A Advanced Structural Analysis (Instructor: Taciroglu, E.) Lecture, four hours; outside study, eight hours.
Requisite: course 135A.
Recommended: course 135B.
Review of matrix force and displacement methods of structural analysis; virtual work theorem, virtual forces, and displacements; theorems on stationary value of total and complementary potential energy, minimum total potential energy, Maxwell/Betti theorems, effects of approximations, introduction to finite element analysis.