ARCH&UD 432Structures II
Architecture and Urban Design · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Mechanics of structures and structural elements. Elastic materials: stress, strain, and stress-strain relations. Theory of bending: curvature, stress and strain distributions, centroid, moments of inertia, resisting and plastic moments. Design of beams for bending, shear, and deflections. Torsion members. Instability and design of columns. Design for combined bending and compression. Tensile structures; cables, pneumatic structures. Slabs and plates; shells and folded plates.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 431.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ARCH&UD 432
- ARCH&UD 431Structures I
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ARCH&UD 432
- ARCH&UD 433Structures III
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.