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    Structural Basic

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    Structural engineering involves designing structures to safely resist forces through economical means. Key aspects include determining load types and magnitudes, considering structural context, generating and analyzing structural system alternatives, and implementing a design. Common loads are dead, live, dynamic, wind, earthquake, and thermal loads. Structural types include arches, trusses, beams, frames, and suspended/cable structures. The load path is the route loads follow to foundations.

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    Structural engineering involves designing structures to safely resist forces through economical means. Key aspects include determining load types and magnitudes, considering structural context, generating and analyzing structural system alternatives, and implementing a design. Common loads are dead, live, dynamic, wind, earthquake, and thermal loads. Structural types include arches, trusses, beams, frames, and suspended/cable structures. The load path is the route loads follow to foundations.

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    Structural engineering involves designing structures to safely resist forces through economical means. Key aspects include determining load types and magnitudes, considering structural context, generating and analyzing structural system alternatives, and implementing a design. Common loads are dead, live, dynamic, wind, earthquake, and thermal loads. Structural types include arches, trusses, beams, frames, and suspended/cable structures. The load path is the route loads follow to foundations.

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    Structural engineering involves designing structures to safely resist forces through economical means. Key aspects include determining load types and magnitudes, considering structural context, generating and analyzing structural system alternatives, and implementing a design. Common loads are dead, live, dynamic, wind, earthquake, and thermal loads. Structural types include arches, trusses, beams, frames, and suspended/cable structures. The load path is the route loads follow to foundations.

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    The key takeaways are that structural engineering involves identifying and designing load paths to safely resist various loads on structures in an economical way.

    The main types of loads that structural engineers consider in design are dead loads, live loads, dynamic loads, wind loads, earthquake loads, thermal loads, and settlement loads.

    Some common structural systems discussed are arches, trusses, beams/girders, braced frames, rigid frames, space trusses, and cable suspended structures.

    Introduction to Structural

    Engineering
    12-100 Introduction to Civil and
    Environmental Engineering
    Fall 1997

    Lecture 3
    Outline
    Objective of Structural Engineering
    Structural Engineering Process
    Types of loads
    Types of structures
    Load paths in structures
    Summary
    Civil Engineering Subdisciplines
    structural
    geotechnical
    environmental
    transportation
    construction
    Objectives of Structural
    Engineering

    Structural engineering is the science and art of designing


    and making, with economy and elegance, buildings,
    bridges, frameworks, and other structures so that they can
    safely resist the forces to which they may be subjected.

    The Structural Engineer,


    Official Journal of the British Institute of
    Structural Engineers
    Structural Engineering Process
    Determine types magnitudes of loads
    Determine structural context
    geometric and geological information
    cost / schedule / height/ etc. limitations
    Generate alternative structural systems
    Analyze one or more alternatives
    Select and perform detailed design
    Implement (usually done by contractor)
    Types of loads
    Dead loads
    Live loads
    Dynamic loads (e.g., trains, equipment)
    Wind loads
    Earthquake loads
    Thermal loads
    Settlement loads
    Dead Loads
    weight of the structure itself
    floors, beams, roofs, decks, beams/stringers,
    superstructure
    loads that are always there
    Live Loads
    People, furniture, equipment
    Loads that may move or
    change mass or weight
    Minimum design loadings
    are usually specified in
    the building code
    Load Example: Live Load in Ballroom
    Ballroom
    Live Load = 100 lb/ft^2
    Dynamic Loads
    Moving loads (e.g. traffic)
    Impact loads
    Gusts of wind
    Loads due to cycling
    machinery
    Load Example: Dynamic Load
    HVAC

    t
    Load Example: Water in a dam

    Water,
    = density

    h
    p = gh
    Earthquake Loads
    Structure loaded when base is shaken
    Response of structure is dependent on the
    frequency of motion
    When frequencies match with natural
    frequency of structure - resonance
    Load Example: Earthquake Load

    Earthquake Load

    Earthquake Load

    Base Motion
    Settlement
    Some Types of Structures
    Arch
    Planar Truss
    Beam/Girder
    Braced Frame
    Rigid Frame
    Space Truss
    Cable Suspended Structure
    Arch
    Planar Truss
    Beam/Girder
    Frames
    Braced Rigid
    Cable Suspended Structure
    Cable Stayed Bridge
    Load Paths in Structures
    Load Path is the term used to describe the
    path by which loads are transmitted to the
    foundations
    Different structures have different load
    paths
    Some structures have only one path
    Some have several (redundancy good)
    Load Path in Framed Structure
    Load Path in a Tied Arch
    Summary
    Structural Engineering:
    identifies loads to be resisted
    identifies alternatives for providing load paths
    (arch, truss, frame, ...)
    designs structure to provide safe and
    economical load paths (material, size,
    connections)
    to be economical and safe, we must be able to
    predict what forces are in structure.

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