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