Thin-walled structures
Next offered in 1995
N W Murray
6 points * 3 hours per week * First semester * Clayton
Concepts of structural behaviour, local and global buckling, shear in thin-walled structures, first and second-order analysis; St Venant torsion of open and closed profiles and multi-celled profiles. Warping torsion, section properties, warping stresses in single and multispan beams, bimoment distribution. Stresses in stiffened plates and box girders, buckling of stiffened plates and box girders by the finite strip method. Elastic buckling of isolated perfect and imperfect plates, Marguerre's equations. Plastic theory applied to thin-walled structures; failure of stiffened plates, box girders and plate girders. Codes of practice (British, Australian and German).
Assessment
Examinations (2 hours): 85% * Practical work: 15%
Prescribed texts
Murray N W Introduction to the theory of thin-walled structures Clarendon Press, 1986