AOE 3024                                              THIN-WALLED STRUCTURES

 

SYLLABUS

 

 

                 Topics                                                                                 Percentage

 

  1. Review                                                                                           25

 

Concepts of Stress and Strain

Bending Moment and Shear Force Diagrams

Shear Flow in Thin-Walled Tubes

Yielding in Materials

 

  1. Stresses in Stiffened-Shell Beams                                               45

 

Skin-Stringer Approximation

Open Sections: Stresses and Shear Center

Single-Cell Closed Section

Unsymmetrical Sections

Deflections in Beams

 

3.       Introduction to the Matrix Analysis of Structures                      30

 

Review of Linear Algebra and Matrix Arithmetic

Definitions: Generalized Displacements and Forces,

Degrees-of-Freedom, Flexibility and Stiffness Matrices

Element Stiffness Matrices for Spring, Bar, and Truss Elements

Beam Elements

Assemblage of Stiffness Matrices

Computer Applications