Civil and Structural Engineering Notes

Design of Steel Structures:

Full Class Notes

 

Design of Reinforced Concrete:

Full Class Notes

 

Seismic Design (Reinforced Concrete and Steel):

Full Class Notes

 

Applied Hydraulics:

General Notes

 

Open Channel Hydraulics:

Intro and Applied Hydralics Review

 

Man-Made Channel Design

 

Natural Channel Design

 

Gradually-Varied Flow Water Surface Profile

 

Structures (Culverts)

 

Structures (Spillways)

 

Structures (Stilling Basin)

 

 

Earthquake Engineering:

Duhammel Integral

MDOF Structures (displacement, stiffness matrix, mode shapes)

 

 

Bridge Design: 

Two Pin Arches 

Arch Bridges (3 pin and 2 pin)

Cable-Stayed Bridges

Moment Curvature Analysis Part 1

Moment Curvature Analysis Part 2

Moment Curvature Analysis (Mander Model)

Moment Curvature Analysis Example

Concrete Box Girder Analysis using SAP2000 (supplement to the videos that can be found at the youtube link on the links page)

Nonlinear Analysis of a Concrete Box Girder using SAP2000 (supplement to the videos that can be found at the youtube link on the links page)

 

Coronado Bridge Example Part 1

Coronado Bridge Example Continued (influence lines, moment distribution)

Influence Lines

Influence Lines 2

Influence Lines 3 (comparing with moment distribution results)

Concrete Box Girder Analysis

Prestressing and Post-Tensioning

 

SAP2000 Bridge Project Example (supplement to the videos that can be found at the youtube link on the links page)

SAP2000 and Excel Cyclic and Monotonic Displacement Response of a Concrete Box Girder (supplement to the videos that can be found at the youtube link on the links page)

Suspension Bridges

Structural Analysis:

 

Shake Table Analysis

 

Event Scaling Pushover Analysis Example

 

Normal Displacement Method

 

Dowell Method (Closed Form Moment Distribution)

 

Dowell Method Part 2 (Closed Form Moment Distribution for Frames and Columns)

 

Dynamic Analysis Using the Dowell Method (Closed Form Moment Distribution) and the Average Acceleration Method

 

Incremental Sway Method Moment Distribution Different Length Columns

 

Incremental Sway Method Moment Distribution Multiple Columns

 

Stiffness Method for Beams and Frames

 

Engineering Economics:

Benefit Cost Method

 

Bonds

 

Break-Even Point

 

Capital Recovery

 

Rate of Return Method

 

Comparing Alternatives

 

Comparing Alternatives/Rate of Return Method

 

Complete Investment Example

 

Examples

 

Inflation

 

Loans

 

Multiple Alternative Comparison Example

 

Perpetual Life Example

 

Personal Financing (Loans) Example

 

Probability Application (Floods and Oil Fields)

 

Rate of Return Analysis Example

 

 

 

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