CIV 411 – Matrix Structural Analysis

Current Catalog Description

Development of matrix methods of structural analysis from first principles. Application of the direct stiffness method to calculate deflections and forces in beams, and two- and three-dimensional trusses and frames

Prerequisite

CIV 310

Corequisite:

None

Textbooks and/or Other Required Material

None

This course is

Not Required

Technical Elective Option

Topics Covered

1. Fundamental Mechanics Concepts
2. Qualitative Structural Systems Evaluation
3. Linear Algebra and Matrix Operations
4. Statical and Kinematical Determinacy and Indeterminacy
5. Force Method of Analysis
6. Displacement Method of Analysis
7. Symmetry and Asymmetry
8. Analysis for Effects of Temperature, Settlement, and Construction Errors
9. Matlab Programming
10. Direct Stiffness Method
11. Influence Lines for Statically Indeterminate Structures

Course Learning and Student Outcomes

Understand the difference between energy-based flexibility approaches and matrix-based stiffness approaches to structural analysis

Determine deflections and forces in statically determinate and indeterminate structures using strain-energy methods.

Determine deflections and forces in statically determinate and indeterminate structures using the direct stiffness method

Use a physical interpretation of stiffness matrices to assemble stiffness matrices analytically

Write and use computer programs which implement the direct stiffness method using matrix operations

Prepared by

Rigoberto Burgueño (2019)

Last Updated:

10/2021