[1] CEGE 3401 Linear Structural Analysis
Topics: structural loads, determinancy, statically determinate structures (internal forces and moments, deflection), statically indeterminate structures (force method, slope-deflection method), influence lines.
[2] CEGE 4413 Steel Design II
Topics: composite construction, plate girders, frame design, shear and moment connections.
[1] CEGE 5411 Applied Structural Mechanics
Topics: vectors and tensors, kinematics, stresses, balance laws, linear elastostatics
[2] CEGE 8413 Fracture and Scaling
Topics: linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM), nonlinear fracture mechanics and cohesive crack model, equivalent LEFM, energetic scaling, statistical scaling.
[3] CEGE 8431 Structural Stability
Topics: buckling of columns and frames, dynamics analysis of stability, Liapunov definition of stability, Lagrange-Dirichlet theorem, energy methods for discrete and continuous systems, thin-wall beams, plates and shells, fracture as a stability problem, damage localization.
[4] CEGE 8442 Nonlinear Analysis of Structural Systems
Topics: plastic analysis of beams and frames under uniaxial stresses, plasticity with yield surfaces, yield line theory, slip-line theory, numerical modeling of quasibrittle structures (cohesive crack model, crack band model, nonlocal integral and gradient models), creep and shrinkage.
[5] CEGE 8461 Structural Reliability
Topics: review of basics of probability theories, random fields and stochastic processes, probabilistic modeling of structural strength, first-order and second-order reliability methods, simulation techniques.
