Structural Theory

Structural analysis is a professional course subject common to all civil engineering students designed to provide fundamental concepts, principles, and theories in the theory of structures and structural analysis for internal actions in a structure and its deformations under load. This covers the analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate beams, trusses, and rigid frames. It also presents an introduction to the matrix analysis of structures.

WHAT IS STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING?

Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering wherein structural engineers are trained to plan, design and construct “structural bones” for buildings, bridges, towers, and other man-made structures with sufficient strength to prevent their collapse when loaded and protect them from extreme weather phenomena such as wind, snow, fire, and earthquakes. It is the science and art of planning, designing, and constructing safe and economical structures that will serve their intended purposes.

The theories used in structural engineering are purely based upon the applied physical laws and empirical knowledge on the structural performance of different materials. Thus, structural engineering design is an integral part of any structural engineering project, its function being the prediction of the performance of the proposed structure.

Listed below are the following topics pertinent to the introduction and analysis of both determinate and indeterminate structures:

This module will enable you to identify and classify the various types of planar and spatial; structural systems and the manner by which these are supported for stability and the state of static and kinematic determinacy and stability of structural systems, externally and internally.

This module will enable you to apply the classical methods of structural analysis for external and internal actions on statically determinate various structural system due to static loads. This will also help you develop intuition on deflected shapes of structures under loading.

This module will enable you to apply the classical methods of structural analysis for external and internal actions on statically determinate various structural systems due to static loads. This will also help you develop intuition on deflected shapes of structures under loading.