Structures, modelling and idealisation

What this module covers

• Describe the job a structure has to do, and trace a load from where it lands to the ground
• Recognise the common structural forms and what each is good at
• Turn a physical structure into a reasonable first analytical model
• Say what your model assumes, and what those assumptions leave out
• Tell a determinate structure from an indeterminate one, and spot a mechanism

Lessons

1. 1.1

   What a structure has to do

   Load paths, structural forms, and the journey from load to ground.

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2. 1.2

   From a real structure to a model

   Idealisation, assumptions, degrees of freedom and determinacy.

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