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59308 Mechanics of Structural Members
Danish title: Konstruktionselementers statik
Language: Danish Credit points: 7,5
Type: Open University
Language: Danish

Previous course: 59102/C5902
No credit points with: 59102/C5902
Prerequisite: 59107
Recommended semester: 4th - 6th semester
Scope and form: Lectures and exercises
Examination: Written exam (13-scale)
Contact person: Steen Krenk, Building 118, Tel. +45 4525 1702, email sk@bkm.dtu.dk
Leif Otto Nielsen, Building 118, Tel. +45 4525 1708, email lon@bkm.dtu.dk

Department: Department of Structural Engineering and Materials
Aim: To give the statics for often used structural elements as thin-walled beams and plates and illustrate this by analytical and numerical solutions and by experimental results. Moreover to teach the student methods for determination of the load carrying capacity of thin-walled beams and elastic or elasto-plastic plates with respect to strength and stability. Most buildings are designed with these methods.
Contents: First continuummechanics is introduced covering stresses, strains, virtual work, elasticity and yield. On this basis the linear theory for thin-walled beams with open cross-section is formulated. The importance of cross-section warping is considered and the associated cross-section analysis is treated. The theory is extended to linear stability problems and coupled bending-torsion instability and lateral instability is treated.
Next the linear theory for thin plates in bending is given and illustrated by typical elastic plate bending solutions. The theory is extended to linear stability problems as buckling of plates in plate girders. Finally the yield line theory for the load carrying capacity of elasto-plastic plates in bending is given.