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Civil Engineering - CIEN 308

Structural Analysis

• Introduce Structural Analysis
• Determine Reactions
• Determine Reaction for Cantilever and Arch-Type Construction
• Determine Shear and Moment Diagram
• Introduce Trusses
• Introduce Truss Analysis by Method of Joints
• Introduce Truss Analysis by Moments and Shears 
• Introduce Truss Types and Stability
• Introduce Subdivided Trusses
• Graphic Statics
• Determine Influence Lines for Beams
• Determine Influence Lines for Trusses
• Determine Moving Loads
• Introduce Space Frames
• Discussion of Statically Indeterminate
• Approximate Analysis of Statically Indeterminate Structures
• Determine Deflections
• Introduce Virtual Work
• Introduce Deflection Methods of Analyzing Statically Indeterminate Beams and Frames
• Introduce Deflection Methods of Analyzing Statically Indeterminate Trusses
• Introduce Castigliano's Theorems and the Three-Moment Theorem
• Introduce Slope Deflection
• Introduce Moment Distribution for Beams and Frames
• Introduce Plastic Analysis
• Introduce Matrix Methods of Structural Analysis