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| GCIV0624-1 | Structural mechanics
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| Duration : | 40h Th, 50h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Jean‑Marc Franssen |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Course contents :
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| This course is about the methods that allow determining the efforts that are supported by structures essentyially made of beams, columns and bars. This type of structure is very common in buildings and bridges and it is necessary to know the nature and value of these efforts in order to design the elements to resist the efforts.
Table of content: Determination of effects of action in statically determinate structures - Methods of structural analysis : Introduction - Basic theorems - Flexibility method (classical) - Stiffness method (classical, simplified, use of software) - Moment distribution method - Trusses - Influence lines - Plastic global analysis (basic theorems, static and kinematic methods) - Basic notions of critical load - Second order effects - Worked examples. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| At the end of this course, the student, when faced with a structure made of bars (beams, columns...), will be able to:
determine the M-N-V diagramms in an statically determinate structure almost immediately;
determine internal forces and displacements in a given statically undeterminate structure subjected to a given loading;
choose the most appropriate method to do so;
drawn an influence line and to use it in order to laod the structure;
to utilise a linear structural analysis software;
to determine the ultimate plastic load bearing capacity. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Strength of materials - Elementary statics. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| A substantial part of the lectures is devoted to exercises and worked out examples.
It is expectedf that the students will do again these exercices in order to see if they can do it and also that they make additionnal exercices such as, for example, those that were the subject of tests or examinations in the previous years. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course is given face-to-face
Lectures and exercises are organised alternately. Some marked tests are organised during the courses, with advance notice to the students for the date and the subject. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Lecture notes are distributed for free in elctronic format. They reflect very closely the matters thought during the course.
A book with exercices is printed by the students. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Separate oral (theory) and written (exercises (and theory in January)) examinations.
30% for the marked exercices
30% for the written examination
40% for the oral examination
A partial examination covering the topics of the first quadrimester will be organised in January. |
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Organizational remarks :
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| In 2011-2012, the course is organised at the beginning of the first quadrimester, on Monday morning, and during nthe second quadrimester, on Tuesday afternoon |
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Contacts :
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| JM.Franssen@ulg.ac.be
366.92.65 |
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| Items online : |
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| examen partiel |
| Questions du partiel de janvier |
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| Treillis |
| Notes du cours sur les treillis |
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