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Dr. Ramela Ramirez: Structural Analysis Lecture Notes

This document provides an introduction to structural analysis. It discusses how structural analysis involves determining stresses, deflections, and support reactions given loading conditions. It then reviews some important developments in structural analysis throughout history, including contributions from Galileo Galilei, Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, and others. Finally, it discusses how the development of computers in the 1950s revolutionized structural analysis by enabling the solution of large systems of equations.

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Dr. Ramela Ramirez: Structural Analysis Lecture Notes

This document provides an introduction to structural analysis. It discusses how structural analysis involves determining stresses, deflections, and support reactions given loading conditions. It then reviews some important developments in structural analysis throughout history, including contributions from Galileo Galilei, Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, and others. Finally, it discusses how the development of computers in the 1950s revolutionized structural analysis by enabling the solution of large systems of equations.

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THEORY OF STRUCTURES

Prepared by : Dr. Ramela B. Ramirez

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INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Performance : structure - loads , external effects, e.g. support
movements and temperature changes
Performance characteristics
Stresses or stress resultants, such as axial forces, shear forces, and
bending moments
Deflections
Support reactions
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INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS : involves
 stresses or stress resultants, deflections, and support reactions
given loading condition
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Egyptian pyramids ( about 3000 B.C. )
Greek temples ( 500 – 200 B.C.
Roman coliseums and aqueducts ( 200 B.C. – A.D. 200 )
Gothic Cathedrals ( A.D. 1000 – 1500 )
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INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
PEOPLE AND EVENTS
Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) : originator of the theory of structures
Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ) : law of linear relationships between force and
deformation of materials (Hooke’s Law)
Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ) : laws of motion and calculus
John Bernoulli ( 1667 – 1748 ) : principle of virtual work
Leonhard Euler ( 1707 – 1783 ) : theory of buckling of columns
C. de Coulomb ( 1736 – 1806 ) : analysis of bending of elastic beams
L.M. Navier ( 1785 – 1836 ) : treatise on elastic behavior of structures – first
textbook on modern theory of strength of materials

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INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

PEOPLE AND EVENTS


B.P. Clapeyron ( 1799 – 1864 ) : three moment equation for the
analysis of continuous beam
J.C. Maxwell ( 1831 – 1879 ) : method of consistent
deformations and the law of reciprocal deflections
Otto Mohr ( 1835 – 1918 ) : conjugate – beam method for the
calculation of deflections and Mohr’s circles of stress and strain
Alberto Castigliano ( 1847 – 1884 ) : Theorem of least work
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INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

PEOPLE AND EVENTS


C.E. Greene ( 1842 – 1903 ) : moment – area method
H. Muller-Breslau ( 1851 – 1925 ) : principle for constructing influence
lines
G.A. Maney ( 1888 – 1947 ) : slope – deflection method – considered
as precursor of the matrix stiffness method
Hardy Cross ( 1885 – 1959 ) : moment – distribution method – simple
iterative procedure for analyzing highly statically indeterminate
structures
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INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
PEOPLE AND EVENTS
Availability of computers – 1950
Revolutionized structural analysis
Computer can solve large systems of simultaneous equations
Analyses that took days and sometimes weeks in the precomputer
era could now be performed in seconds
J.H. Argyris ; R.W. Claugh ; S. Kelsey ; R.K. Livesley ; H.C. Martin ;
M.T. Turner ; E.L. Wilson ; O.C. Zienciewicz

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