HigherEd 2.0

Transverse shear is a sort of difficult topic, not necessarily because of the concepts, but because of the unusual approach and the mathematics involved. I suggest you review this module at least once, and also click through on the embedded link to the Mechanics Movies (from Univ. of Missouri). Click on “Transverse Shear”, […]

 Lecture module 16, March 19 2007: Download

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Below you will find 5 media files, each containing the solution to one of the exam problems. In those files, you will see the solution, and also a few comments here and there about typical mistakes I saw while I was grading the exams.
Per the policy on our syllabus, you have one week […]

 

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We reviewed composite beam analysis (Sec. 6.6) and started steel-reinforced concrete beam analysis today. The podcast has some decent discussion of how and why we do the transformation using the modulus ratio. This is just one of those things that will probably remain a bit mysterious to you until you sit down and […]

 Lecture module 15, Mar 14 2007: Download

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Exam 1 is now sitting in your folder outside my office, ready for pick-up. This was a challenging exam, and here are the numbers, by problem:

16.50/20
(a) 9.28/10, (b) 4.00/10
16.96/20
14.66/20
18.71/20
Overall average: 80.11%

So this is quite positive, especially on Problem 5 (which I thought was going to be much […]

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This module covers some issues in unsymmetric bending that are useful for your homework due 3/17. Perhaps the key point is the principal moments of inertia and the product of inertia. I strongly encourage you to download the module and click through on the embedded links to get important review of moment of […]

 Lecture module 14, Feb 28 2007: Download

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Homework 6 is due on Friday March 17 at 4 pm in my office. As usual, homework submitted after 4 pm will receive a zero, unless there are extenuating circumstances.
All problems are from Chapter 6.
Prob. 6-51, 6-57, 6-75, 6-94, 6-105, 6-107.
Prob. 6-57 is a good one and asks you to calculate the force resulting […]

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