Study Guide

Objective

After completing the course, the student can:
- Understand how frames are affected by forces and displacements
- develop necessary cutting forces, diagrams and displacements for frames and continuous beams
- create the calculation base in the relevant soft ware, for the calculation of forces for statically indeterminate structures

Content

- In-depth knowledge of MathCad
- Generation of cut forces and offsets for statically determined frames
- Generation of cut forces and displacements for statically indeterminate beams and frames
- the angle change method
- The displacement method
- In-depth buckling theory
- Current professional soft ware

Qualifications

Foundations in Construction Statistics, Building Stability and FEM

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Can calculate cutting forces and maximum deflection for statically indeterminate two-support beams using the Elementarfall method.
Can correctly read the cut forces from the frame cut force diagram.
Can calculate cutting forces and support reactions for continuous beam with the Angle change method.
Can calculate the cutting forces in continuous beams with the displacement method.
Knows other ways to determine crack length for rods than Euler's formulas.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Can calculate cutting forces for simple frames with the Elementar case method.
Can calculate cutting forces for three-link frame.
Familiar with the static mode of action of arches.
Can calculate cutting forces and support reactions for frame without displacement with the Angle change method.
Can calculate cutting forces and displacement / deflection for continuous beam and one-storey frame with the displacement method.
Can do all calculations in a spreadsheet program.
Can calculate the crack length of rods in a different way than according to Euler's theory.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Can calculate cutting forces and make diagrams for these for three-frame frame.
Can calculate the cutting forces for arch construction.
Can calculate cutting forces and support reactions for frame with displacement, using the Angle change method.
Can calculate cutting forces and offsets for multi-storey frames with the offset method.
Can make own applications in Excel or MathCad with systematic displacement method
Can calculate crack length for multi-storey players.

Materials

Materials are partially found in Moodle
Textbook