Welcome to the CE474 Spring'09 website.
Teaching Assistant: TBA
Syllabus, prerequisites, books
Class schedule:
MWF 1:30-2:20pm @
Office hours:
Instructor: CIVL4117; TBA
TA: TBA
Exam schedule:
Term Exam #1: TBA
Term Exam #2: TBA
Final Exam: TBA
On the Method of Complementary Energy by Westergaard (1942)
PocketStatics 1.0 -- for MS Windows and PocketPC (get the 30-day trial version and play)
E-Defense (World's largest shake-table) and the test movies
West Point Bridge software (fun to play with)
Google SketchUp (3D modeling software -- so easy to use and it is free!)
A typical software bug-message in the world of structural analysis/design -- not to berate the particular software company, but to give you a flavor of misses and messes. So, beware; at times, it could be worse than garbage in-garbage out.
W.G. Godden Structural Engineering Slide Library (fascinating slides!)
Remembering the Column Analogy by Prof. M.A. Sozen -- on the column analogy approach developed by Prof. Hardy Cross to find fixed-end moments of single-span beams.
Monograph on Column Analogy by Hardy Cross
Historical outline of matrix structural analysis by Prof. C.A. Felippa
Degrees of freedom of plane and space frames (for FAIR USE ONLY) -- a paper that might of interest. It is about degrees of static indeterminacy, not kinematic degrees of freedom.
Question: Is an exact analysis of an approximate model an approximate analysis of the exact model?
"All analyses are based on some assumptions which are not quite in accordance with the facts. From this, however, it does not follow that the conclusions of the analysis are not very close to the facts." - H. Cross.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not seek for exactness where only an approximation is possible." - Aristotle
"One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it." - Persian proverb.
Dragline:
Why you got to go and say fifty eggs for? Why not thirty-five or thirty-nine?
Luke: I thought it was a nice round number.
[from Cool Hand Luke.]
updated on
exsisto civilis.