Course Overview: Stress analysis is a very important task for engineers in civil, mechanical, aerospace and many other subjects. Although it is called stress analysis, it looks for both stress and strain over the structure so that to determine the condition of a structure under external loads. Stress analysis can be performed through different ways,
Course Overview: The dynamic behavior of structures is an important concern across many disciplines of engineering. By understanding structural dynamics, civil engineers can design buildings that can withstand severe dynamic loading from earthquakes and hurricanes, aerospace engineers can control the vibration of aircraft wings under turbulence, and mechanical engineers can design crash protection features to
Course Overview: Modal analysis is the fundamental dynamic analysis type, providing the natural frequencies at which a structure will resonate. These natural frequencies are of paramount importance in various engineering fields. Suspensions are usually tuned to have different natural frequencies for passenger cars and race cars. Structural engineers need to calculate the natural frequency of
Course Overview: Every structure undergoes changes over a period; some occur over short time periods while others take a long time. While time is always an independent variable in play, it is not necessary to consider it in analyzing all systems. But how do we identify when time may be ignored (e.g., static and quasi-static