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PurdueX: Elastic Stability and Behavior of Members
Learn elastic stability concepts including methods to evaluate stability including bifurcation method and energy methods. Learn the differential equations governing behavior of structural members, and use them for column buckling analysis
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5 weeks at 6-7 hours per week
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Online - Self Paced
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About PurdueX: Elastic Stability and Behavior of Members
Stability is a critical design limit state for structural members and systems.
This course will cover basic concepts in stability including methods to evaluate structural stability including bifurcation method and energy methods. Both small and large deformations will be assumed, and the effects of geometric imperfections will be investigated.
The differential equations governing the behavior of structural members will be discussed along with the design of steel rolled sections to torsional moment. The differential equations governing the stability behavior of structural members will be derived, and used to evaluate the buckling of columns with asymmetric, singly symmetric, and doubly symmetric cross-sections.
Students will leave this course with an in-depth knowledge of bifurcation buckling, stability, and methods of analysis. Students will also learn about governing differential equations for stability analysis and the buckling of different types of columns. This course is best suited for students with an undergraduate civil engineering background including a structural analysis course and will build on these concepts.
Students will learn from an awarded structural engineering researcher with over 20 years of experience in the field. Professor Varma focuses on teaching through exploring example problems and applications of fundamental concepts, encouraging his students to both understand the principles of structural stability and be able to apply these concepts in realistic design scenarios.
What You Will Learn?
- Define stability, instability, and buckling of structural members.
- Analyze stability problems using energy and bifurcation buckling analysis approaches.
- Differential between first and second order differential equations used to define structural member behavior..
- Calculate stresses induced in structural members due to bending, shear, and torsion.
- Differentiate between column buckling for doubly symmetric, singly symmetric and asymmetric columns..