Kinematic analysis of planar beam systems. Degrees of freedom and virtual displacements. The constraints.
Iperstatic, isostatic and ipostatic beam systems.
Determination of reaction forces and internal actions (axial force, shear, and bending moment) in statically determinate planar beam systems. Anomalous cases.
Planar system of trusses statically determined
Stress analysis
Forces and stresses in 3d continuum medium
The stress tensor
The equations of equilibrium
Principal stresses, principal directions, and invariants
Decomposition of stresses in volumetric and deviatoric part
Plane stress. The Mohr's Circle for plane stress
Strain analysis
Small strain kinematics in a continuum medium
Rigid body motion and deformations.
The equations of external compatibility
Physical interpretation of the components of the tensor of small strains
Principal strains, principal strain directions and invariants of strain.
The equations of internal compatibility
Principle of Virtual Works for continuum mediums
Elasticity
Definition of elasticity
The linear elastic material
The isotropic assumption
The constitutive equations for a liner elastic, isotropic material.
Bending
Right bending
General bending
Bending and tension/compression
Torsion
Torsion in cylindrical circular beams
Torsion in small thickness beams with closed hollow sections.
Torsion in beams with rectangular section.
Torsion in small thickness open beam
Shear
Approximate shear stress evaluation: computations of the average shear stress along a generic segment
Bending and shear symmetric in beams with shear parallel to the symmetry axis
Bending and shear symmetric in small thickness open beam.
The center of shear
The equation of the elastic line
Computation of displacements and hyperstatics in beams.
Non elastic effects
Elastic boundary conditions
Applications of the Principle of Virtual Works for planar beams
Computation of displacements
Computation of hyperstatics
Instability
Computation of the Euler collapse load.