Matrix Method of Structural Analysis

Civil Engineering

Instructor Name: Amit Shaw

Institute: IIT Kharagpur
Department: Civil Engineering

Course Intro: : This is a second level course on structural analysis. Herein the concept of matrix method of structural
analysis with application in various structural components will be discussed. This course will serve as a bridge between
structural analysis 1 (the first course on structural analysis) and more advance topic such as finite element method
(FEM)

Pre Requisites: : Solid Mechanics, Structural Analysis 1

Core/Elective: : Core
UG/PG: : UG
Industry Support : Any Civil, Mechanical and Aerospace company

Reference : 1.Devdas Menon,"Advanced Structural Analysis", Narosa Publishing House, 2009. 2.Asslam
Kassimali,"Matrix Analysis of Structures", Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., USA, 1999. 3.Amin Ghali, Adam M Neville
and Tom G Brown,"Structural Analysis:A Unified Classical and Matrix Approach",Sixth Edition, 2007, Chapman &
Hall.

About Instructor: Prof.Amit Shaw, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

COURSE PLAN

SL.NO Week Module Name

1 1 Introduction Structures, loads and
response; determinate and indeterminate
structures; stiffness and flexibility
2 2 Review of analysis of Indeterminate
structures Force and displacement
methods
3 3 Mathematical preliminaries Review of
concept of matrix algebra; stiffness and
flexibility matrices
4 4 Analysis of Trusses
5 5 Analysis of Beams
6 6 Analysis of plane frames
7 7 Analysis of space frames
8 8 Beyond matrix method: Introduction to
finite element method