AISC Night School Classical Methods of Structural Analysis

June 3, 2019 Session 1: Introduction and Basic Concepts

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Session Description
20.1 Introduction and Basic Concepts
June 3, 2019

The session will start with a brief discussion of the history of structural analysis
in order to place into context the development of classical methods of analysis
and to illustrate how they have influenced approaches currently used. Such
topics as equilibrium, superposition, first- and second-order analysis,
determinate and indeterminate structures, shear and moment diagrams, and
deflected shapes will be reviewed. AISC specification requirements will also be
discussed.

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Learning Objectives:

• Describe how the development of classical methods of

structural analysis has influenced current approaches.
• Evaluate the differences between determinate and
indeterminate structures.
• Describe the connection between classical methods and the
AISC Specification analysis requirements.
• Derive shear and moment diagrams for different structural
situations.

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Classical Methods of Structural
Analysis
Session 1: Introduction and Basic Concepts
June 3, 2019
Louis F. Geschwindner, PE, PhD
Headshot
Professor Emeritus, Penn State University,
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Here Former Vice President, AISC, and
Senior Consultant, Providence Engineering
State College, Pennsylvania

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Classical Methods of Structural Analysis:

How we did it before computers

Night School 20
Lesson 1
Introduction and Basic Concepts

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Night School 20
• Introduce classical methods of analysis that
may be useful in the design of steel structures.
• Emphasize understanding structural behavior
to support improved design.
• Use deflection calculations to analyze
indeterminate structures.
• Review direct and approximate methods of
indeterminate structural analysis.
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Night School 20
1. Introduction to Basic Concepts 6/3/2019
2. Strain Energy and Real Work 6/17/2019
3. Deflections by Virtual Work 6/24/2019
4. Moment Areas and Elastic Weights 7/8/2019
5. Indeterminate Structures and the General Method 7/15/2019
6. Indeterminate Structures by Slope Deflection 7/22/2019
7. Approximate Methods and Moment Distribution 7/29/2019
8. Classical Approaches applied to Second-order Analysis 8/5/2019

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Lesson 1
Introduction and Basic Concepts
• Brief History of structural analysis
• Equilibrium
• Determinate vs. indeterminate structures
• Elastic vs. inelastic analysis
• Small deflections vs. large deflections
• 1st-order vs. 2nd – order analysis
• Superposition
• AISC 360 analysis requirements
• Shear and Moment diagrams
• Deflected shapes
• Unit loads, pattern loading and influence lines
• Introduction to Consistent Deflections.

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Structural Engineering
“The art of modeling materials that we do not
wholly understand, into shapes that we
cannot precisely analyze, so as to withstand
forces we cannot really assess, in such a way
that the community at large has no reason to
suspect the extent of our ignorance!”
A. R. Dykes, IStructE

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Structural Analysis
• The process used to determine how a
structure responds to specific loads or actions.
• Based on a mathematical model of the
structure of interest.
• Results measured by establishing forces and
deformations throughout the structure.

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Structural Analysis
• A mathematical model is used to predict the
behavior of a real structure. The model is
based on:
– Engineering mechanics theory
– Laboratory research
– Model and field experimentation
– Experience
– Engineering judgment

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Structural Analysis
• All methods of structural analysis are founded on
a series of basic assumptions.
• The assumptions were developed in detail early
in the structural engineers academic studies.
• Often, these basic assumptions have been
forgotten by the time the student has moved on
to the next structures course.
• It should be helpful to remember that we did not
always know what we know today.
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History
• Archimedes (287 – 212 BC)
– His treatise On the Equilibrium of Planes
established him as the founder of statics.
• Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519)
– Introduced the concept of the moment of a force.
• Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)
– Originated mechanics of materials.
– Discussed the problem of the cantilever beam.
• Not correctly solved until 1855

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History
• Robert Hooke (1635 – 1703)
– Hooke’s Law – Elasticity.
• Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727)
– Laws of motion, law of universal gravitation, and
infinitesimal calculus.
• Johann Bernoulli (1667 – 1748)
– Introduced principle of virtual velocities (basis of
virtual work).

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History
• Leonhard Euler (1707 – 1783)
– Column buckling.
• Louis Marie Henri Navier (1785 – 1836)
– First text book in mechanics of engineering.
– This was the first systematic treatment of the
theory of structures.
• Squire Whipple (1804 – 1888)
– First rational analysis of the jointed truss.

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History
• 1863 – Ritter
– Method of sections.
• 1864 – Maxwell
– 1st treatment of indeterminate structures.
– “Theory of Reciprocal Deflections,” sometimes
known as Maxwell – Betti Reciprocal Theorem.
– Graphical truss analysis – Maxwell Diagram
• 1868 – Mohr
– Lead to Conjugate Beam

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History
• 1873 – Green
– Moment Area
• 1874 – Mohr
– Consistent Deflections using Virtual Work
• 1886 – Müller Breslau
– Influence line was a deflected shape
• 1915 – Maney
– Slope-Deflection Method
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History
• 1924 Hardy Cross
– Began teaching moment distribution
– Revolutionized the analysis of continuous frames
• Last 50 years
– Merging of earlier methods into modern matrix
and finite element formulations.
We will be looking at methods that are close to
100 years old and older.

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Equilibrium
• The most important equation in structural
engineering, T=C.
• In a planer system there are three
independent equations of equilibrium
FyA

ΣFx = 0 y
Fx1
ΣFy = 0
ΣM z = 0
Fy1 Fy 2

x
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Equilibrium
• In a three dimensional system there are six
independent equations of equilibrium
y F x, y, z

ΣFx = 0 ΣM x = 0
ΣFy = 0 ΣM y = 0
ΣFz = 0 ΣM z = 0 Fx1 x
z Fz1 Fy1
Fz 2
Fx 2
Fy 2

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Determinate vs. Indeterminate

• Determinate
– Number of unknowns = number of equations
• Equations of equilibrium
• Condition equations
– Forces and moments independent of member properties
• Indeterminate
– Number of unknowns > number of equations
• Equilibrium, condition, other equations
– Forces and moments dependent on relative member
properties

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Determinate vs. Indeterminate

• Determinate FyA

3 unknowns
Fx1 3 equations of equilibrium

Fy1 Fy 2

• Indeterminate
FyA FyB

4 unknowns
3 equations of equilibrium
Fx1

Fy1 Fy 2 Fy 3
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Stable vs. Unstable

FyA FyB

4 unknowns
3 equations of equilibrium
Fx1
1 condition equation (hinge)
Thus:
hinge Stable and determinate
Fy1 Fy 2 Fy 3

FyA FyB

3 unknowns
3 equations of equilibrium
But:
Unstable
Fy1 Fy 2 Fy 3

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Elastic vs. Inelastic

• Elastic
– Stress is proportional to strain.
– Material follows Hooke’s Law.
• Inelastic
– Stress is not proportional to strain.
– Some of the material yields while other portions
do not.

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Steel as a Material
Elastic Fu = Ultimate Strength
Behavior Fy = Yield Stress

Plastic Behavior
Stress, F

Slope = Modulus of Elasticity, E

εy = Yield Strain

Strain, ε
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Compression Members
Inelastic behavior results from the
presence of residual stresses in the rolled
shape. This will have an impact on column
strength that will be shown later.

Fy
Stress, F

Plastic Behavior

Strain, ε

Stub column test where actual

residual stresses impact stress-
strain curve
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Small Deflection vs. Large Deflection

Δ
• Small
– 1st order L
0
L
– sin θ = tan θ = θ θ

• Large ΔH

– 2nd order L ΔV

– sin θ ¹ tan θ ¹ θ θ <L

– Cable structures

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Small Deflection vs. Large Deflection

• Frame structure

Force-deformation relations are formulated as linear equations.

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Small Deflection vs. Large Deflection

• Cable structure

f1

f3 f
2

Force-deformation relations can not be formulated as linear equations.

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1st-order vs. 2nd-order

• 1st-order analysis • 2nd-order analysis
• Deformations and • Deformations and
rotations are small enough rotations are large and
(infinitesimally small) as to will influence analysis
not impact analysis results. results.
1st - order
The deformations in each
of these cases are about
2nd - order the same magnitude, they
Load

are just accounted for

differently.
Ignored vs. considered.
Load Effect
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1st-order vs. 2nd-order

• 1st order analysis • 2nd order analysis
– Equilibrium – Equilibrium
formulated about formulated about
undeformed final displaced
geometry geometry
– Beam-column ignores – Beam-column
impact of axial load includes impact of
on moment axial load on
moment

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1st-order vs. 2nd-order

Beam with axial force

40 kips

400 kips 400 kips

δ

20 ft

2nd – order results 1st – order results

M = 200 + 400δ ft-kips M = 200 ft-kips

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Linear vs. Non-linear

• Linear
– Effects of load proportional to load
– Elastic material
– Superposition applicable
• Non-linear
– Effects of load not proportional to load
Linear
– Geometric nonlinearities
– Elastic-plastic material Non-linear

Load
– Inelastic material
– Superposition not valid
Load Effect
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Superposition
• Requirements
– Elastic behavior
– Small deflections
• The Principle of Superposition:
“If the displacements of, and stresses at, all points of a structure
are proportional to the loads causing them, then the total
displacements and stresses resulting from the application of
several loads will be the sum of the displacements and stresses
caused by these loads when applied separately.”

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Superposition
Fy1 = Fy1 A + Fy1B
FyA FyB

Fx1

Fy1 Fy 2 Fy 3
FyA

= Fx1 A

FyB
Fy1 A Fy 2 A Fy 3 A

+ Fx1B

Fy1B Fy 2 B Fy 3 B

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History
• Question to consider
– Which came first?
• Understanding Equilibrium
• Understanding Gravity

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Polling Question

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AISC 360-16
B3.3 Required Strength
“The required strength of structural members and
connections shall be determined by structural analysis
for the applicable load combinations as stipulated in
Section B2.”
“Design by elastic or inelastic analysis is permitted.
Requirements for analysis are stipulated in Chapter C
and Appendix 1.”

We will be looking at methods of elastic analysis.

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AISC 360-16
• B2. Loads and Load Combinations
– The loads, nominal loads and load combinations
shall be as stipulated by the applicable building
code.
– In the absence of a building code, the loads,
nominal loads and load combinations shall be
those stipulated in Minimum Design Loads and
Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other
Structures (ASCE/SEI 7)

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AISC 360-16
C1. General Stability Requirements
• Stability shall be provided for the structure as a whole
and for each of its elements. The effects of all of the
following on stability of the structure and its elements
shall be considered:
a) flexural, shear and axial member deformations…
b) second-order effects,
c) geometric imperfections,
d) stiffness reduction due to inelasticity; and
e) uncertainty in stiffness and strength.

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AISC 360-16
• We will be using elastic analysis according to
Section B3.3 to determine the impact of the
loads defined in Section B2.
• The requirements of Section C1 go beyond the
results of an elastic analysis but those
requirements can be accommodated with a
properly executed elastic analysis.

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Axial Force, Shear Force and

Bending Moment
• Axial Force, F: at any transverse cross section
of a straight beam, the algebraic sum of the
components acting parallel to the axis of the
beam of all loads and reactions applied to the
portion of the beam on either side of that
cross section.

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Axial Force, Shear Force and

Bending Moment
• Shear Force, V: at any transverse cross section
of a straight beam, the algebraic sum of the
components acting transverse to the axis of
the beam of all loads and reactions applied to
the portion of the beam on either side of the
cross section.

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Axial Force, Shear Force and

Bending Moment
• Bending Moment, M: at any transverse cross
section of a straight beam, the algebraic sum
of the moments acting, taken about an axis
passing through the centroid of the cross
section, normal to the plane of loading, of all
loads and reactions applied to the portion of
the beam on either side of the cross section.

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Axial Force, Shear Force and

Bending Moment
• Sign Convention
– Axial Tension, +

– Shear, +
• left up – right down

– Bending Moment, +
• Compression on top

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Shear and Moment Diagrams

• Plots of the shear force and bending moment
at each cross section of the beam.
• Values determined through use of free body
diagrams.
• Shapes determined by understanding
relationships between load, shear and
moment.

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Shear and Moment Diagrams

P = 20 kips
P = 10 kips
w = 1 kip/ft
Rx = 0

RyA = 39.17 kips RyB = 35.83 kips

10 ft 15 ft 20 ft

45 ft

Reactions found by applying equations of equilibrium ΣFx = 0

ΣFy = 0
ΣM z = 0

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Shear and Moment Diagrams

Free body diagram P = 20 kips
P = 10 kips

w = 1 kip/ft
Rx = 0

RyA = 39.17 kips

10 ft 15 ft 20 ft

45 ft

P = 10 kips

?
w = 1 kip/ft

RyA = 39.17 kips

10 ft 9 ft
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Shear and Moment Diagrams

The transverse cross section of interest
P = 10 kips
w = 1 kip/ft

ΣFy = 0
RyA = 39.17 kips
10 ft 9 ft 39.17 − 1.0 (19.0 ) − 10.0 − Vx = 0
Vx = 10.17 kips
x
ΣM z = 0
 19.0 
39.17 (19 ) − 10.0 ( 9.0 ) − 1.0 (19.0 )  − Mx = 0
 2 
M x = 473 ft-kips

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Shear and Moment Diagrams

P = 20 kips
P = 10 kips

w = 1 kip/ft

RyA = 39.17 kips x RyB = 35.83 kips

10.17 kips
Downward shear plots on the top

473 ft-kips
Moment plots on the compression side

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Shear and Moment Diagrams

• Applying the equations of equilibrium is a
straight forward process.
• Determination of shear and moment values at
any particular point is rarely an issue for the
engineer.
• Sketching the shear and moment diagrams,
before knowing all the values is a valuable tool
for analysis and design.

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Shear and Moment Diagrams

• What is the relationship between the shear
diagram and the moment diagram?
Vx Vx + dVx
From moment equilibrium,
M x + dM x = M x + Vx dx
Mx M x + dM x Then
X
dM x
= Vx
dx dx
The slope of the moment
diagram is the value of the shear

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Shear and Moment Diagrams

• What is the relationship between the shear
diagram and the moment diagram?

Vx Vx + dVx
Also,
dM x = Vx dx

Mx M x + dM x which leads to
X MB xB

dx
 dM
MA
x = M B − M A =  Vx dx
xA

So we see that the change in

moment is the area of the shear
diagram
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Shear and Moment Diagrams

• The same could be shown for the relationship
between the load diagram and the shear
diagram.
– The slope of the shear diagram is equal to the
magnitude of the load
– The change in shear is the area of the load.

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Shear and Moment Diagrams

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Shear and Moment Diagrams

Characteristics
 Uniform load → sloping shear,
curved moment
 Concentrated load → abrupt
change in shear, point in moment
 No load → no change in shear,
straight line moment
 Triangular load → parabolic shear,
3rd -order moment curve
 Zero shear → relative maximum
moment

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Shear and Moment Diagrams

I am trying to
draw this but
something
isn't working
right, why?

?
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Shear and Moment Diagrams

Equilibrium requires that the reactions change, thus the base line
of the diagram must move but the shape we developed is correct.

Now it can be seen that there are 3 points of relative maximum

moment, like on a two span continuous beam.

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Shear and Moment Diagrams

Load

Shear

Moment

Compression on top Compression on top

Deflected
Shape

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Deflected Shape
• No matter what the loading, the deflected
shape for a continuous beam will be a smooth
curve.
• The moment diagram will always tell us which
side of the beam is in compression.
• Although it is difficult to draw accurate
deflected shapes, it is easy to draw an
approximate deflected shape using what we
know already.

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Use of Unit Loads

• From the principle of superposition, we know
that we can analyze a structure for loads
independently and then add the results
together.
• Based on this, we can analyze the structure for
a 1 kip or 1 kip/ft load and then multiply by an
appropriate constant to get the results for the
actual loading.

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Use of Unit Loads

w= 4 k/ft

=
w= 2 k/ft w= 2 k/ft w= 1 k/ft

w= 1 k/ft

2× w= 1 k/ft
+
4× w= 1 k/ft
+
2× w= 1 k/ft
+
1×
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Use of Unit Loads

w= 4 k/ft
w= 2 k/ft w= 2 k/ft w= 1 k/ft

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Use of Unit Loads

Which loads are combined to get the worst case positive moment at the center of the span?

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Use of Unit Loads

Which loads are combined to get the worst case negative moment at the supports?

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Use of Unit Loads

• So what patterns do we see?
– For positive moments, the span of interest and
every alternate span.

– For negative moments, the spans adjacent to the

support of interest and alternate spans.

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Use of Unit Loads

• Consider a simple beam with a unit
concentrated load. 1.0 kip

x = 0.5L P = 1.0 kip RB

0.5 kip

RA = 0.5 kip RB = 0.5 kip

L
0.5 1.0
Load Location, x/L

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Use of Unit Loads

• Move the load to the left
1.0 kip
x = 0.25L
P = 1.0 kip RB

RA = 0.75 kip RB = 0.25 kip

L
1.0
Load Location, x/L

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Use of Unit Loads

• Move the load to the right
1.0 kip
x = 0.75L P = 1.0 kip RB

RA = 0.25 kip RB = 0.75 kip

L
1.0
Load Location, x/L

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Use of Unit Loads

• Move the load above the right support
1.0 kip
P = 1.0 kip
x=L RB

RA = 0 kip RB = 1.0 kip

L
1.0
Load Location, x/L

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Influence Lines
• Connect the dots and you have the influence
line for RB 1.0 kip
P = 1.0 kip
x=L RB

RA = 0 kip RB = 1.0 kip

L
1.0
Load Location, x
Using the influence line you can determine the reaction at B for any location and any
load magnitude. For a uniform load the area under the line gives the reaction.

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Influence Lines
• Some loads may be located at any position on
a structure.
• It is essential to know where to position that
load to cause the maximum influence.
• With bridges this is a common consideration.
• With buildings it is not as common an issue.
• However, influence lines may still be useful for
building applications.
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Influence Lines
• Definition: a curve whose ordinate at any
point equals the value of some particular
function due to a unit load acting at that
point. A C D B

Influence line for reaction at B

Influence line for moment at D

Influence line for shear at C

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Influence Lines
• Müller-Breslau principle: If an internal stress
component, or reaction component, is
considered to act through some small distance
and thereby to deflect or displace a structure,
the curve of the deflected or displaced
structure will be, to some scale, the influence
line for the stress or reaction component.

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Influence Lines
• Müller-Breslau principle: application
A

Conceptual influence line for reaction at A

A
F

Conceptual influence line for positive moment at F

C

A
F

Conceptual influence line for negative moment at C

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Deflections
• We have seen how understanding deflections
and deflected shapes is important for
understanding influence lines.
• There are many other reasons that conceptual
or computed deflections are important/useful.
• One of those reasons is their role in the
analysis of indeterminate structures.

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Deflections
• Maxwell’s “general method” also known as
Consistent Deformations or Consistent
Deflections
– The approach uses deformation compatibility
equations in addition to the equilibrium equations
when there are more unknowns then may be
determined through equilibrium.

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Deflections
• Consistent Deflections example
– Consider two simple beams of unequal spans and
stiffness that cross at their mid-spans and support
a concentrated load at that point, as shown
y

P
There are 6 unknowns and 6 equations of
Beam A equilibrium. However, there are too many
x unknowns in the y direction for the
reactions to be determined with just
these equations. An additional
z independent equation must be found.

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Deflections
y

P The additional equation can be found

by considering the condition at the
Beam A intersection of the beams. At this
x location, the deflections must be
“consistent” meaning here, the same.
Thus,
z Δ A = ΔB
PA L3A PB L3B
and Δ A = ΔB =
48 EI A 48EI B

PA L3A P L3
from which = B B
48 EI A 48 EI B
 L3B  48 EI A    L3B I A 
yielding PA = PB   3   = PB  3 

 48 EI B  LA    LA I B 
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Deflections
y

P From this equation we are able to

determine the relationship between
Beam A the amount of load carried by Beam A
x and Beam B.

 L3 I 
PA = PB  3B A 
 LA I B 
z

If the span and moment of inertia are the same for each beam, then they each
carry the same amount of load, PA = PB.
If Beam A has twice the moment of inertia as Beam B, IA = 2IB , then , PA = 2PB.
Using the remaining equations of equilibrium, all 4 y-axis reactions may be
determined for any relationship of beam properties.

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Deflections
• We may conclude from this discussion of
deflections that there will be value in looking
at various ways to determine deflections.
• In addition to deflections we will also discuss
ways to determine rotations and any other
deformation that might be useful to us.

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Deflections
• Question to consider
– What deformations must be included in analysis
according to AISC 360-16?
• Flexure only
• Flexure plus shear
• Only deformations in members
• All deformations affecting stability

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Polling Question

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Summary
• Considered the basic principles and behavioral
assumptions needed to better understand
structural analysis.
• Looked at the influence deflections play in our
ability to understand structural behavior.
• Began to see how calculating deflections will
allow us to solve the condition equations
necessary when the equations of equilibrium
are not sufficient.

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References
• Kinney, J. Sterling, “Indeterminate Structural Analysis,” Complete
Edition, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Massachusetts, 1957.
• Norris, Charles H., and Wilbur, John B., “Elementary Structural
Analysis,” Second Edition, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York,
1960.
• Parcel, John I., and Moorman, Robert B.B., “Analysis of
Indeterminate Structures,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1955.
• Trathen, Roland H., “Statics and Strength of Materials,” John Wiley
& Sons, Inc. New York, 1954.
• West, Harry H., and Geschwindner, Louis F., “Fundamentals of
Structural Analysis,” Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons. Inc., New
York, 2002.

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Lesson 2
• Strain Energy and Real Work
– Develop an understanding of strain energy.
– Develop the principles of real work.
– Consider Maxwell’s Law of Reciprocal Deflections.
– Use these principles to calculate rotations and
deflections for structures with various loadings.
– Assess the issues that lead to the introduction of
virtual work.

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