Static Indeterminacy of Structures

Flexibility and Stiffness

Energy principles in structural mechanics

The Principle of Minimum Potential Energy

STATIC AND DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF GRID BEAMS

TYPES OF GRIDS

METHOD USED IN ANALYSIS

STIFFNESS METHODS MERITS AND DEMERITS

Force Methods/Flexibility Method

Stiffness Methods for Systematic Analysis of Structures

The Direct Stiffness Method: Plane Frames

Transformation from local to global co-ordinate system

Member global stiffness matrix

BEAM ANALYSIS USING THE STIFFNESS METHOD

Force Method for Support Settlements

Force Method for Multiple Degrees of Indeterminacy

Practice Problems

The Slope Deflection Method

The Moment Distribution Method

The Moment Distribution Method for Beams

The Moment Distribution Method for Frames