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The continuous  two span footbridge has a uniform EI  (100,000kNm^2) and carries a total load of 12kN/m over its entire length Following a recent flood both the left hand (A) and inner  support (B) sink by 25mm.  Using  any method determine the moment...

3-D Bending moment and torsion diagrams are never easy, so practice makes perfect.   Having sketched the bending moment and torsion diagram for the structure above determine the moments and torsion acting on the base of the structure Submit your...

You are sitting in a rowing boat in a small pond, you have an unopened  can of baked beans with you. If you throw the  can (which sinks)  into the pond what happens to the level of the water in...

Dear All I will be teaching  you AR20389 Structures 2 from week  4- 11. I will cover several methods of  structural  analysis that  you  need to use in later  courses  in order to  determine  moments and  forces developed in a...

For the statically determinate truss shown above determine the displacement at the point E (in mm). Assume all members have the same EA= 10^5 kN and L=4m You can solve this simple problem using virtual work. Firstly you must determine...

Hi everyone,  its that  time of  year  again.   I will be   uploading  weekly  questions  for you all  to attempt.  These are not  assessed  but  they  will prepare you  for the  exam  in January.   If you are  ...

To help those  students who are  resisting  Structures 1A and Structures 2 in August/Sept I will be  uploading a question for each  course on a regular basis .

Happy new year to everyone.  The weekly blog questions will start again ready for Semester 2.  In the mean time I hope you are all outside enjoying the snow. Why not try to build an ice sculpture. For more inspiring...

The top and bottom chord of the long truss shown below are CHS sections, and each has I = 31x106 mm4 and A = 6300 mm2. Take Esteel = 200 GPa. All members have the same length of 1m.  Determine the...

Something a bit harder this week to keep you all on your toes! What diameter of steel cable is required such that the mid-span deflection of the timber beam is only 50% of the mid-span deflection of the beam without...