CIV2206 Structural mechanics

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Analyse structural behaviour (calculating reactions and bending moment diagrams and deflected shapes) of simple determinate and indeterminate beam and frame systems using qualitative and quantitative methods.

2. 2

   Identify and determine elastic normal stresses, shearing stresses and shear flow in simple structures as a result of external (including thermal) loading producing internal actions of axial force, bending, torsion and shear.

3. 3

   Determine the partial plastic and fully plastic section moment capacities of both symmetrical and asymmetrical steel sections.

4. 4

   Determine deflections in linearly elastic determinate systems.

5. 5

   Determine stresses and strains (and their relationship) in two dimensions utilising the concepts of principal stress and Mohr's circle, and select and use appropriate failure theories for engineering materials.

6. 6

   Formulate technical reports and communicate effectively in team assignments, interpreting and analysing experimental data, utilising basic analysis software packages and relating results to the theory taught.