Curriculum Map

Structural Analysis

Author:
Salah El-Din E. El-Metwally, Professor, Mansoura University, El-Mansoura, Egypt

This Curriculum Map provides a list of highly relevant and engaging content from throughout AccessScience for use in enriching your teaching. Site assets such as tables, diagrams, and equations have been mapped to standard topics taught in an introductory Structural Analysis course. Use the "Copy Link" functionality to paste a direct link from each asset into your school's learning management system for easy incorporation into your curriculum.

Course Topics


Statics
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Diagram This figure from the article Statics illustrates the rectangular components of a force vector in a three-dimensional space. copy link
Diagram This figure, also from the Statics article, shows the moments about the axis in rectangular coordinates. copy link
Diagram This figure from the article Resultant of forces illustrates the resolution of a force into a force and couple. copy link
Biography In the field of statics, Archimedes is credited with working out the rigorous mathematical proofs behind the law of the lever. This biography tells more about Archimedes's groundbreaking work in statics and hydrostatics. copy link
Diagram This figure from the article Stress and strain shows a stress-strain diagram for a low-carbon steel, which exhibits the unique phenomenon of yielding at a critical stress. copy link
Diagram This figure, also from the article Stress and strain, shows Mohr's construction for the calculation of stresses. copy link
Dynamics
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Table This table in the Rigid-body dynamics article provides the moments of inertia of simple bodies such as rods, rectangles, cubes, and so on. copy link
Equation The Center of mass article provides this equation for determining the center of mass of two bodies. copy link
Equation This equation describes the center of mass of a group of bodies. copy link
Article This article explains the principle of moment of inertia for two- and three-dimensional systems. This principle is fundamental in understanding the dynamics of rigid bodies. copy link
Diagram / Equation Figure 1 in the article Rotational motion explains why banking is important for a car moving on a curved road. Equation (1), just below this figure, quantifies the necessary angle of banking. copy link
Article The article Vibration provides the foundations of system vibration. copy link
Analysis
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Diagram This figure from the article Loads, transverse illustrates loading analysis by free-body analysis of a beam. It also shows conventions of sign for bending moment and for shear. copy link
Diagram This figure, also from the Loads, transverse article, shows typical shear and bending moment diagrams for concentrated and uniformly distributed loads. copy link
Diagram This figure from the Loads, transverse article illustrates the shear flow in a wide-flange section and a channel section. copy link
Article This article, Constraint, explains how a restriction on the natural degrees of freedom of a system is necessary for stability and how it is imposed in the analysis of the system. copy link
Diagram This figure from the article Steel structure analysis and design illustrates the buckling of a column and how it reduces column strength. copy link
Diagram This figure, also from the Steel structure analysis and design article, shows the two concepts of stability—P-Δ effect (structure stability) and P-δ effect (member stability)—in a simplified frame. copy link
Diagram This figure indicates the design methods used in contemporary structural design. It is useful in illustrating the effect of the stability problem on structural design. copy link
Equation / Diagram Equation (1) in the article Column provides the buckling load of a column, while Figure 2, just below it, illustrates the buckling length of a column required by this equation for three different end supports. copy link
Diagram This figure from the article Beam-column illustrates the three cases of loadings that create beam-column effects. copy link
Diagram This figure shows a frame-type structure with one beam and four columns acting as beam-columns. This is helpful in differentiating between columns and beam-columns. copy link