Conceptual Structural Systems

CIVL-4450

This course covers concepts of structural systems. The course is aimed at understanding behavior of different structural systems and how they respond to various loading conditions. The concept of load transfer, shaping, and form finding is of particular interest. This concept is reinforced through analytical, digital, and physical modeling intended to foster intuitive thinking. The course includes the following: approximate analyses of statically indeterminate beams, rigid frames, and vierendeel frames; cable suspended structures, arch supported structures; masonry structures, space frame, and folded plate structures; spherical, cylindrical, and hyperbolic shells; net and tent structures; air-supported and air-inflated structures, and hybrid structural systems. The course includes guest lectures, project, computer simulation, and testing physical models.

3 credits

Past Term Data

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2023
Conceptual Structural Systems (3c)
  • Justin Henry Den Herder
Seats Taken: 4/25
2022
Conceptual Structural Systems (3c)
  • Justin Henry Den Herder
Seats Taken: 9/25
2021
Conceptual Structural Systems (3c)
  • Dominick Richard Pilla
  • Pamela C Zepf
Seats Taken: 11/25
2020
Conceptual Structural Systems (3c)
  • Dominick Richard Pilla
Seats Taken: 7/25
2019
Conceptual Structural Systems (3c)
  • Dominick Richard Pilla
Seats Taken: 10/25
2018
Conceptual Structural Systems (3c)
  • Dominick Richard Pilla
Seats Taken: 14/25
2017
Conceptual Structural Systems (3c)
  • Ivan Markov
Seats Taken: 15/25
2016
Conceptual Structural Systems (3c)
  • Ivan Markov
Seats Taken: 9/25
2015
Conceptual Structural Systems (3c)
  • Ivan Markov
Seats Taken: 12/25
2014
Conceptual Structural Systems (3c)
  • Ivan Markov
Seats Taken: 18/25
2013
Conceptual Structural Systems (3c)
  • Ivan Markov
Seats Taken: 10/25
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