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This calendar provides assigned readings for each class session, as well as links to relevant problem sets and design exercises. The readings are from the course textbook, Engineering Mechanics for Structures, written by Professor Louis Bucciarelli.


WEEK #	TOPICS	READINGS	ASSIGNMENTS


1	Introduction	1.1 - 1.3


	Static Equilibrium		PS 1 (PDF)


	Concept of Force	2.1


2	Concept of Moment	2.2


	Internal Forces and Moments		PS 2 (PDF)


3	Truss Structures	3.1	Design Ex. 1 (PDF)


	Beams	3.2


4	Shafts in Torsion	3.3	PS 3 (PDF)


	Concept of Stress		Design Ex. 2 (PDF)


5	Transformation Rules	4.1


	Equilibrium	4.2	PS 4 (PDF)


6	Indeterminate Systems


	Simple Systems	5.1


7	Matrix Analysis Truss Structures	5.2	PS 5 (PDF)


	Special Methods		Design Ex. 3 (PDF)


8	Concept of Strain


	Strain/Displacement	6.1	PS 6 (PDF)


	Transformation Rules	6.2


9	Materials: Properties/Failure		Design Ex. 4 (PDF)


	Stress/Strain Relations	7.1 - 7.3	PS 7 (PDF)


	Failure Phenomena	7.4


10	Stresses/Deflections: Torsion	8.1 - 8.5


	Stresses: Beams in Bending	9.1 - 9.3	PS 8 (PDF) Design Ex. 5 (PDF)


11	Shear in Beams	9.4


	Composite Beams	9.5


12	Deflections due to Bending	10.1	PS 9 (PDF)


13	Buckling of Beams	10.2	Design Ex. 6 (PDF)


	Matrix Analysis of Frames	10.3


14	Special Methods

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