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CVEN30020

Academic Year 2024/2025

Analysis of Structures 1 (CVEN30020)

Subject:
Civil Engineering
College:
Engineering & Architecture
School:
Civil Engineering
Level:
3 (Degree)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Assoc Professor Arturo Gonzalez
Trimester:
Autumn
Mode of Delivery:
Blended
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

This course focuses on the analysis of the response of a structure under given loading conditions, and upon completion, the student should be able to understand the principles of structural behaviour in withstanding external forces and environmental effects, and to determine internal forces, reactions and displacements of skeletal structural systems.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module, students will have the ability to:
1) Identify mechanisms, critical, statically determinate and statically indeterminate structures.
2) Solve (for internal shear and axial forces, bending moment, reactions) a skeletal structural form: truss, cable-structure, continuous beam, frame, or a combination of them, and being able to select the ideal structural form to a specified loading condition.
3) Calculate displacements using energy theorems (i.e., the unit-force theorem).
4) Apply the force method or stiffness method, choosing whatever is more convenient according to the characteristics of the problem, to solve statically indeterminate structures.
5) Analyse the effect of live loads through influence lines.

Indicative Module Content:

Statically Determinate and Indeterminate Skeletal Structures; Trusses, frames and continuous beams; Influence lines; Unit-Force Theorem; Force (Flexibility) method; Displacement (Stiffness) method

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

36
Tutorial

12
Specified Learning Activities

12
Autonomous Student Learning

65
Total

125

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures, assignments, tutorials and tests

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Requirements:

Students should have either one of the pre-requisite modules listed


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Pre-requisite:
CVEN20010 - Mechanics of Solids I, MEEN20040 - Mechanics of Solids I


 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Exam (In-person): End-of-trimester closed-book written exam End of trimester
Duration:
2 hr(s)
 Other No
70
 No
Quizzes/Short Exercises: Tutorials/tests to be completed within the allocated time Week 2, Week 4, Week 6, Week 8, Week 10, Week 12 Other No
30
 No

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring Yes - 2 Hour
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Post-assessment feedback

"Structural analysis: a unified classical and matrix approach", by Ghali, A; Neville, A. M; Brown, T. G 2009, 6th ed.

"Elementary structural analysis", by Utku, Senol; Wilbur, John Benson; Norris, Charles Head. 1991, 4th ed.

"Understanding structural analysis" by Brohn, David. 1984.

"Theory of structures" by Timoshenko, Stephen P; Young, Donovan Harold. 1945, 1st ed.

Name Role
Dr Muhammad Gulzari Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Professor Eugene O'Brien Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Chongze Li Tutor
Theodoros Varouxis Tutor

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Autumn Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - Autumn: All Weeks Fri 11:00 - 11:50
Autumn Tutorial Offering 1 Week(s) - 12 Fri 13:00 - 14:50
Autumn Tutorial Offering 1 Week(s) - 3, 4, 6, 8, 10 Fri 13:00 - 14:50
Autumn Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - Autumn: All Weeks Thurs 11:00 - 12:50
Autumn Computer Aided Lab Offering 1 Week(s) - 6, 8, 10 Wed 15:00 - 17:50
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