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QUESTION PAPERS:-
SYLLABUS:-
UNIT I
Columns and Struts: Columns and struts of uniform section, crippling/buckling load, Euler theory and concept of equivalent length, Rankine’s formula and other empirical formulae, Secant formula. Combined direct and bending stresses: Middle third rule, core of a section, stresses due to wind, water and earth pressure in structures like retaining walls, dams, chimneys, walls etc.
Thin cylinders: Thin cylinders subjected to internal fluid pressure, wire wound thin cylinders. Thin cylindrical shells, circumferential and hoop stresses, longitudinal stresses, Maximum shear stress.
UNIT II
Moving loads and Influence lines : Introduction to moving loads, concept of equivalent UDL, absolute maximum bending moment and shear force, concept of influence lines, influence lines for reaction, shear force, bending and deflection of determinate beams, Influence line diagram [ILD] for forces in determinate frames and trusses, analysis for different types of moving loads, single concentrated load, several concentrated loads, uniformly distributed load shorter and longer than span, Application of Muller Breslau Principle for determinate structures.
UNIT III
Indeterminate Structures: Indeterminacy, choice of unknowns, Castigliano’s second theorem and its applications.
Method of consistent deformation: Analysis of indeterminate beams and frames upto two degree of indeterminacy, settlement effects, analysis of pin jointed trusses, externally and internally redundant trusses, effects of settlement and prestrains.
Slope Deflection Method: analysis of continuous beams, analysis of rigid frames, frames with sloping legs, gabled frames, frames without sway and with sway, settlement effects.
UNIT IV
Moment distribution and Kani’s method: Analysis of beams and frames.
Approximate methods of analysis of multistory frames: Analysis of vertical load, substitute frames, loading condition for maximum positive and negative bending moment in beams and maximum bending moment in columns, analysis for lateral load, portal method, cantilever method and factor method.
SYLLABUS:-
UNIT I
Columns and Struts: Columns and struts of uniform section, crippling/buckling load, Euler theory and concept of equivalent length, Rankine’s formula and other empirical formulae, Secant formula. Combined direct and bending stresses: Middle third rule, core of a section, stresses due to wind, water and earth pressure in structures like retaining walls, dams, chimneys, walls etc.
Thin cylinders: Thin cylinders subjected to internal fluid pressure, wire wound thin cylinders. Thin cylindrical shells, circumferential and hoop stresses, longitudinal stresses, Maximum shear stress.
UNIT II
Moving loads and Influence lines : Introduction to moving loads, concept of equivalent UDL, absolute maximum bending moment and shear force, concept of influence lines, influence lines for reaction, shear force, bending and deflection of determinate beams, Influence line diagram [ILD] for forces in determinate frames and trusses, analysis for different types of moving loads, single concentrated load, several concentrated loads, uniformly distributed load shorter and longer than span, Application of Muller Breslau Principle for determinate structures.
UNIT III
Indeterminate Structures: Indeterminacy, choice of unknowns, Castigliano’s second theorem and its applications.
Method of consistent deformation: Analysis of indeterminate beams and frames upto two degree of indeterminacy, settlement effects, analysis of pin jointed trusses, externally and internally redundant trusses, effects of settlement and prestrains.
Slope Deflection Method: analysis of continuous beams, analysis of rigid frames, frames with sloping legs, gabled frames, frames without sway and with sway, settlement effects.
UNIT IV
Moment distribution and Kani’s method: Analysis of beams and frames.
Approximate methods of analysis of multistory frames: Analysis of vertical load, substitute frames, loading condition for maximum positive and negative bending moment in beams and maximum bending moment in columns, analysis for lateral load, portal method, cantilever method and factor method.