Structural Analysis: Skills for Practice 1st. Edition by James Hanson | 9780133128789 | 133128784 | Holooly

Structural Analysis

Structural Analysis: Skills for Practice

123 SOLVED PROBLEMS

Question: 7.4

As part of new employee training at our firm, the structural engineers are asked to design a rigid frame to withstand wind load. The fourth submission: ...

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Check Equilibrium: Satisfied Fundamental Principle...

Question: 7.3

As part of new employee training at our firm, the structural engineers are asked to design a rigid frame to withstand wind load. Here is the third submission: ...

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Check Equilibrium: Satisfied Fundamental Principle...

Question: 13.4

Our client is renovating an existing building and adding new mechanical equipment on the roof. To house the new equipment, we are designing a small rigid frame. The frame will attach to very stiff beams, so the frame will be effectively a single story with fixed supports. The members have been ...

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Estimated Solution: Estimate an inflection point a...

Question: 6.9

The largest live load effect on a pedestrian bridge is likely due to distributed load over part of the bridge. In Example 6.4, we developed the influence line for the axial force in member BH. The maximum likely live load for this bridge results in a distributed load of 500 plf that can act ...

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Detailed Analysis: Location where the influence li...

Question: 11.6

We are designing a new building that will be used as an office and shop. To meet the owner’s tight construction schedule, the building will have precast wall panels and precast roof panels. Treating the roof as a rigid diaphragm, we have determined the shear generated in each lateral ...

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Approximate Analysis: Treat each diaphragm segment...

Question: 6.10

Repairs need to be made to the left side of the bridge. Therefore, the contractors want to store materials and equipment on the right half. The resulting distributed load on the girder will be rather large. Before authorizing the contractor to use the bridge for storage, we should check the ...

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Detailed Analysis: Magnitude of the influence line...

Question: 14.4

Our firm has designed a large pipeline along the edge of a canal in Singapore. Our team has been tasked with designing a structure to support the pipe. Other engineers on the team have designed the truss members for strength. Because we are new to the firm, our supervisor wants to verify our ...

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Estimated Solution: Because the reactions are dete...

Question: 14.3

Our firm has designed a large pipeline along the edge of a canal in Singapore. Our team has been tasked with designing a structure to support the pipe. Other engineers on the team have designed the truss members for strength. Because we are new to the firm, our supervisor wants to verify our ...

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Estimated Solution: We did this in Example 5.5. Su...

Question: 14.2

Our firm has designed a large pipeline along the edge of a canal in Singapore. Our team has been tasked with designing a structure to support the pipe. Other engineers on the team have designed the truss members for strength. Because we are new to the firm, our supervisor wants to verify our ...

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Structural Stiffness Matrix: Element stiffness mat...

Question: 14.6

Our firm has designed a large pipeline along the edge of a canal in Singapore. Our team has been tasked with designing a structure to support the pipe. Other engineers on the team have designed the truss members for strength. Because we are new to the firm, our supervisor wants to verify our ...

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Loading: We can convert the distributed load to lo...

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