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Introduction To Structural Analysis

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 of the important historical structures from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Gothic period. The document also summarizes many of the key figures and their contributions to the development of structural analysis and mechanics from Galileo Galilei to modern computer-based methods.

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Introduction To Structural Analysis

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 of the important historical structures from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Gothic period. The document also summarizes many of the key figures and their contributions to the development of structural analysis and mechanics from Galileo Galilei to modern computer-based methods.

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THEORY OF STRUCTURES

Prepared by : Dr. Ramela B. Ramirez

Prepared by : Dr. RAMELA B. RAMIREZ, MMEM 15/10/2021 1


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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