The calendar below provides information on course's lecture (Lec), labs (Lab), and quiz (Quiz) sessions.
Calender
| week # |
ses # |
Topics |
labs |
| Week 1 |
Lec 1 |
Introduction |
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| Lab 0 |
Use of Spreadsheet |
Orientation |
| Lec 2 |
Concept of Force |
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| Week 2 |
Lec 3 |
Concept of Moment |
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| Lab 1 |
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Pasta Uncertainty |
| Lec 4 |
Static Equilibrium Requirements |
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| Lab 2 |
Design Exercise 1 |
Pasta Uncertainty (cont.) |
| Lec 5 |
Truss Structures |
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| Week 3 |
Lec 6 |
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| Lab 3 |
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Cable Structures |
| Lec 7 |
Beam Structures |
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| Lab 4 |
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Cable Structures (cont.) |
| Lec 8 |
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| Week 4 |
Lec 9 |
Design Exercise 2 |
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| Lab 5 |
Torsion of Circular Shafts |
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| Lec 10 |
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| Lab 6 |
Thin Cylinder Under Pressure |
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| Lec 11 |
Concept of Stress |
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| Week 5 |
Lec 12 |
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| Lab 7 |
Stress Component Transformation |
Uniaxial Tension |
| Lec 13 |
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| Lab 8 |
Stress Fields |
Uniaxial Tension (cont.) |
| Quiz 1 |
Quiz 1 |
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| Week 6 |
Lab 9 |
Indeterminate Systems |
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| Lec 14 |
Compatibility of Deformation |
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| Lec 15 |
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| Week 7 |
Lec 16 |
Truss Matrix Analysis |
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| Lab 10 |
|
Truss Structures |
| Lec 17 |
Design Exercise 3 |
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| Lab 11 |
Concept of Strain |
Truss Structures(cont.) |
| Lec 18 |
Strain Component Transformation |
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| Week 8 |
Lec 19 |
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| Lab 12 |
Material Properties / Stress-Strain Relationship |
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| Lec 20 |
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| Lab 13 |
Modes of Failure |
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| Lec 21 |
Stress / Deflections Shafts in Torsion |
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| Week 9 |
Lec 22 |
Design
Exercise 4 |
|
| Lab 14 |
Stresses - Beams in Bending |
Concrete Failure |
| Lec 23 |
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| Lab 15 |
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Concrete Failure (cont.) |
| Lec 24 |
Shear Stresses in Beams |
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| Week 10 |
Lec 25 |
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| Quiz 2 |
Quiz 2 |
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| Lec 26 |
Stresses in Composite Beams |
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| Week 11 |
Lec 27 |
Design Exercise 5 |
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| Lab 16 |
|
Beam Bending |
| Lec 28 |
Deflections Due to Bending |
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| Lab 17 |
|
Beam Bending (cont.) |
| Lec 29 |
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| Week 12 |
Lec 30 |
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| Lab 18 |
Buckling of Beams |
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| Lec 31 |
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| Week 13 |
Lec 32 |
Design Exercise 6 |
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| Lab 19 |
|
Buckling |
| Lec 33 |
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| Lab 20 |
|
Buckling (cont.) |
| Week 14 |
Lec 34 |
Frame Matrix Analysis |
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| Lec 35 |
Some Special Methods |
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