CVEN30020 Analysis of Structures 1

Academic Year 2023/2024

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.

Show/hide contentOpenClose All

Curricular information is subject to change

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 Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Continuous Assessment: tutorials, assignments, tests Throughout the Trimester n/a Other No

30
Examination: End-of-trimester written exam 2 hour End of Trimester Exam No Other No

70

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

Name Role
Professor Eugene O'Brien Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Chongze Li 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
Tutorial Offering 1 Week(s) - 12 Fri 13:00 - 14:50
Tutorial Offering 1 Week(s) - 3, 4, 6, 8, 10 Fri 13:00 - 14:50
Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - Autumn: All Weeks Thurs 11:00 - 12:50
Computer Aided Lab Offering 1 Week(s) - 6, 8, 10 Wed 15:00 - 17:50
Autumn