CE 131: Matrix Structural Analysis
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering
Duke University - Box 90287, Durham, NC 27708-0287

Henri Gavin - Associate Professor - Henri.Gavin@Duke.edu - tel: 919-660-5201 - fax: 919-660-5219


CRC Engineering Handbooks On-Line: http://www.ENGnetBASE.com/
The Engineering Handbook, CRC Press, Richard C. Dorf, Editor
Handbook of Structural Engineering, CRC Press, Wai-Fah Chen Editor

Fall 2006 Syllabus

Academic Integrity
Dean's Excuse for Short-Term Illness

Links to some Matlab tutorials

MecMovies: Review of Solid Mechanics

Review of Strain Energy Methods and Introduction to Stiffness Matrix Methods

Theorems of Maxwell, Betti, and Castigliano

Mathematical Properties of Stiffness Matrices

Introduction to Stiffness Matrix Assembly for Trusses

Direct Stiffness Matrix Method for Trusses

One-page overview of Stiffness Matrix Assembly for Trusses

3-D Truss Analysis

Large Deformation Analysis of Trusses

A Derivation of the Broyden Update Equation, Mark S. Gockenbach, Michigan Technological University

2-D Beam Element Stiffness Matrices

The Stiffness Matrix Coefficients Poem

Direct Stiffness Matrix Method for Frames

Large Deformation Analysis of Frames

A Historical Outline of Matrix Structural Analysis: A Play in Three Acts by Carlos A. Felippa, Univ. of Colorado

City Perils: The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis by Joe Morgenstern, The New Yorker, May 29, 1995.

William LeMessurier: The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis; A Lesson in Professional Behavior from onlineethics.org

(RE)EXAMINING THE CITICORP CASE: Ethical Paragon or Chimera by Eugene Kremer on crosscurrents.org

Post-Modernism in Urban Architecture: The Citicorp Center

Linear Static Structural Analysis of 2-D and 3-D Frames

WTC structural data - a

WTC structural data - b

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