CE 327: Analysis & Design Software Lab

CE 327: Analysis and Design Software Lab.

Instructors

Siddhartha Ghosh (Principal Instructor)
Room # 128, Civil Engineering Building
Phone: 7309, Email: sghosh @ civil

Mandar M. Inamdar (Adjunct Instructor)
Room # 230, Civil Engineering Building
Phone: 7314, Email: minamdar @ civil

Sauvik Banerjee (Adjunct Instructor)
Room # 224, Civil Engineering Building
Phone: 7343, Email: sauvik @ civil

Notice:
Download assigments, notes, examples, etc. from the Course Documents link (upto Assignment #7).

Review of selected topics from solid and structural mechanics:

Deformation of a beam using direct integration method
Direct integration method using singularity functions
Stress and strain transformation equations
Various yield criteria

Numerical and symbolic operations using software:
Introduction to Mathematica - basic operations
Solution of simultaneous equations (application to slope-deflection method)
Solution of ODEs (application to direct integration method)
Simple matrix operations (application to flexibility matrix method)

Idealizations and approximations in structural modelling:
Idealizations in material modelling
Idealizations in structural geometry, support conditions and connections
Idealizations in member structural behaviour

Matrix structural analysis using software:
Analysis of determinate and indeterminate trusses in 2D
Analysis of continuous beams and frames in 2D
Analysis of space (building) frames

Finite element analysis using software:
Analysis of a simple beam using line, shell and solid elements
Elastic buckling analysis of a column
Analysis of a plate with a hole: stress concentration

References

Hibbeler, R.C. Structural Analysis (5th Ed.), Pearson Education India, 2005. {624.04 Hib}
Popov, E.P. Engineering Mechanics of Solids (2nd Ed.), Prentice-Hall India, 2006. {620.1 Pop}
Users' Manuals for Mathematica, SAP2000 and Abaqus.

Class Hours

Tu 14:00 - 17:00

Tutors

Sumit — sumit.bhamare @ iitb
Usha — m8usha @ civil.iitb

Course Documents

Handouts

Handout #1
Handout on Generalized Hooke's Law
Handout on stress formulas
Handout on the effect of combined loading
Examples of combined loading
Handout on the direct approach of stress transformation
A Matlab code for stress transformation (.m text file)
Examples on stress transformation
Stress transformation using Mathematica and the notebook file
Singularity functions for beam analysis using Mathematica and the notebook file
Matrix analysis - 1 (uploaded on Sep 22)
Assignments
Assignment #1 and solutions
Assignment #2 and solutions
Assignment #3
Assignment #4
Assignment #5
Assignment #6
Assignment #7 (uploaded on Oct 20)

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