Structural Analysis

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Read flexibly and with purpose.
• Apply analytical skills to practical problems.
• Self-management (e.g. time management).
• Problem analysis and problem solving.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The collapse load of a structure.
• The analysis of statically indeterminate truss structures using compatibility and material constitutive laws.
• The analysis of statically indeterminate beams and frames using force and displacement-based matrix methods.
• The concept of superposition, and how it is used to combine stresses in a member under more than one load effect, e.g. beam with axial load.
• The verification and validation of structural computational models.
• The distributions of strain and stress in a beam due to bending and/or shear.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identify appropriate analytical technique to determine collapse load of structures.
• Understand limitations and assumptions associated with both computational modelling and analytical methods.
• Understand and appreciate the subject as an essential structural design tool.
• Recognise common types of structural member and structural engineering problems

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Develop, verify and validate computational models of structures.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.