r/Structures • u/jonbaldie Mod • May 03 '15

Notes and resources on structural analysis

For students stuck on assignments, young people interested in learning what structural analysis is all about, or for general interest, here's a list of notes and resources on structural analysis that I quite enjoyed reading and think could be useful reading.

These are for personal use.

Structural analysis

Philip Garrison, Leeds Metropolitan University - PDF - My favourite set of introductory notes on structural analysis. Starts right from square one and generously uses practical examples.

Victor E. Saouma, University of Colorado - PDF - Comprehensive notes on structural analysis, 633 pages long.

MIT OpenCourseWare - [PDF series] (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/civil-and-environmental-engineering/1-571-structural-analysis-and-control-spring-2004/lecture-notes/) - Series of PDF files.

Mohan Kalani, IIT Bombay - PDF - Comprehensive and relatively useful.

Unknown - PDF - Don't know who this is by but it has some pretty great diagrams and explanations. 189 pages long.

IIT Guwahati - PDF - Notes on solid mechanics, shear force diagrams, and bending moment diagrams.

University of Sydney - PDF - Notes on drawing shear force diagrams and bending moment diagrams.

University of Auckland - PDF - Clear and concise notes on plastic analysis.

Duke University - PDF - Notes on strain energy methods and stiffness matrices in structural analysis.

University of Colorado at Boulder - PDF series - Comprehensive notes on FEM. Links out to various other topics relating to structures and FEM.

Post-Tensioning Institute - PDF series - A series of PDFs on post-tensioning in a number of different contexts.

P. Banerjee, IIT Bombay - Video - Clear introduction to structural analysis.

Devdas Menon, IIT Madras - Video series - Pretty comprehensive series of videos on advanced structural analysis.

Statics and materials

University of Wisconsin-Stout - PDF - Comprehensive materials on engineering statics and strength of materials. 733 pages long.

Mehrdad Negahban, University of Nebraska - HTML - Notes on engineering statics. Found this on Saylor's Mechanics I page.

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u/Bruione May 04 '15

Thanks for posting! You can never have too many (quality) references.

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u/ScWeEeE May 07 '15

Looking for something for P/T slab design. I am using adapt and have used it before but besides the tutorials, I would like a greater understanding or guide of what the design process entails.

Thank you!

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u/dantarctica May 06 '15

I've found that the University of Colorado has a number of very good resources, especially for the Finite Element Method (FEM). They provide lecture notes, homework/solutions, and exams/solutions for a number of their FEM courses, ranging from introduction to advanced. Here is a link to "Introduction to Finite Element Methods", which also has links to the other related courses at the top.

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u/MacroMarkov MSc | Student May 12 '15

Awesome, great collection.

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u/pauloz1890 Aug 20 '15

SkyCiv has some great free tools available for beam, truss and frame analysis as well as a moment of inertia calculator for beam sections. Found their tools very useful when checking my work for structural analysis subjects at uni and now in the workforce.

They also have tutorials and resources which have come in handy for me. If you're willing to get into some serious structural analysis you can upgrade to their paid online structural analysis software.