CVG 5149 Structural Stability

3 units
Civil Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Elastic, inelastic, and torsional buckling of columns, beam column behaviour, plane and space frame stability, lateral torsional buckling of beams, global buckling of truss systems, plate and shell buckling, local buckling in tubulars, use of energy methods, matrix analysis, and finite element analysis in modeling stability problems, bracing requirements, standard provisions and design considerations in structural stability. This course is equivalent to CIVJ 5304 at Carleton University.

Components:

Lecture

Previously Offered Terms:

Fall

Organized

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Clear Expectations

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Learned a Lot

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Recommend

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Workload

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Fair Assessments

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