By the end of the course the successful students are expected to:
- Classify basic types of structures and identify the support conditions,
- Construct an idealized model of a structure,
- Identify external and internal forces on a structure,
- Employ principles of superposition of forces and displacements,
- Recall and devise the principles of static equilibrium,
- Construct free-body diagrams for the structures,
- Inspect statical determinacy and stability of a structure,
- Analyze statically determinate plane frames by recalling and integrating free-body concept, static equilibrium, and analysis of beams,
- Sketch axial load, shear, and bending moment diagrams of plane frames,
- Sketch approximate deflected shapes for beams and plane frames,
- Estimate approximate positions of inflection points on the beams and plane frames,
- Conduct the approximate analysis of statically indeterminate beams and plane frames by employing the principles of Inflection Method,
- Conduct the approximate analysis of laterally loaded statically indeterminate plane frames by Portal Method,
- Calculate flexural stiffness, carry-over, and distribution factors in a statically indeterminate continuous beam,
- Calculate fixed-end moments in the members of a statically indeterminate continuous beam
- Employ the procedure for Moment-Distribution Method for statically indeterminate beams and construct the corresponding moment diagram.