CVEN30020 Analysis of Structures 1

Academic Year 2020/2021

This course focuses on the analysis of the response of a structure under given loading conditions, and upon completion, the student should be able to understand the principles of structural behaviour in withstanding external forces and environmental effects, and to determine internal forces, reactions and displacements of skeletal structural systems.

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Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module, students will have the ability to:
1) Identify mechanisms, critical, statically determinate and statically indeterminate structures.
2) Solve (for internal shear and axial forces, bending moment, reactions) a skeletal structural form: truss, cable-structure, continuous beam, frame, or a combination of them, and being able to select the ideal structural form to a specified loading condition.
3) Calculate displacements using energy theorems (i.e., the unit-force theorem).
4) Apply the force method or stiffness method, choosing whatever is more convenient according to the characteristics of the problem, to solve statically indeterminate structures.
5) Analyse the effect of live loads through influence lines.
6) To solve a structural form by three different means: (a) Qualitative analysis and calculations by hand, (b) using a structural software package, and (c) with the help of an engineering handbook.

Indicative Module Content:

Statically Determinate and Indeterminate Skeletal Structures; Trusses, frames and continuous beams; Influence lines; Unit-Force Theorem; Force (Flexibility) method; Displacement (Stiffness) method

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

36
Tutorial

12
Seminar (or Webinar)

6
Computer Aided Lab

2
Specified Learning Activities

4
Autonomous Student Learning

65
Total

125
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures, tutorials, assignments, tests and computer lab 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Requirements:

Students should have either one of the pre-requisite modules listed


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Pre-requisite:
CVEN20010 - Mechanics of Solids I, MEEN20040 - Mechanics of Solids I


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Continuous Assessment: tutorials, assignments, tests, lab Throughout the Trimester n/a Not yet recorded No

100

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring Yes - 2 Hour
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Post-assessment feedback

Name Role
Professor Eugene O'Brien Lecturer / Co-Lecturer