Hands On Training

Elastic Stability and Behavior of Members

Purdue University

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Course Features

Duration

5 weeks

Delivery Method

Online

Available on

Limited Access

Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Level

Advanced

Effort

7 hours per week

Teaching Type

Instructor Paced

Course Description

Stability is a critical design limit state for structural members and systems.

This course will cover basic concepts in stability including methods to evaluate structural stability including bifurcation method and energy methods. Both small and large deformations will be assumed, and the effects of geometric imperfections will be investigated.

The differential equations governing the behavior of structural members will be discussed along with the design of steel rolled sections to torsional moment. The differential equations governing the stability behavior of structural members will be derived, and used to evaluate the buckling of columns with asymmetric, singly symmetric, and doubly symmetric cross-sections.

Students will leave this course with an in-depth knowledge of bifurcation buckling, stability, and methods of analysis. Students will also learn about governing differential equations for stability analysis and the buckling of different types of columns. This course is best suited for students with an undergraduate civil engineering background including a structural analysis course and will build on these concepts.

Students will learn from an awarded structural engineering researcher with over 20 years of experience in the field. Professor Varma focuses on teaching through exploring example problems and applications of fundamental concepts, encouraging his students to both understand the principles of structural stability and be able to apply these concepts in realistic design scenarios.

Course Overview

Live Class

Human Interaction

Personlized Teaching

International Faculty

Post Course Interactions

Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

Recommend completing an undergraduate structural analysis course.

What You Will Learn

Define stability, instability, and buckling of structural members

Analyze stability problems using energy and bifurcation buckling analysis approaches

Differential between first and second order differential equations used to define structural member behavior.

Calculate stresses induced in structural members due to bending, shear, and torsion

Differentiate between column buckling for doubly symmetric, singly symmetric and asymmetric columns.

Course Content

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Module 1: Introduction to Stability and Bifurcation Analysis

Module 2: Energy Methods and First Order Differential Equations (DE)

Module 3: First Order Differential Equations and Stress Calculations

Module 4: Second Order Differential Equations

Course Instructors

Amit Varma

Karl H. Kettelhut Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of Bowen Laboratory of Large-Scale CE Research at Purdue University

Prof. Varma has dedicated his academic and professional life to the development of innovative steel-concrete composite structures for the built infrastructure including commercial and residential bui...

Morgan Broberg

Doctoral Fellow, Civil Engineering at Purdue University

Morgan Broberg is a doctoral fellow working under the direction of Professor Varma. Her work focuses on the behavior, analysis, and design of composite walls (C-PSW/CFs). Her recent work on developin...