C&EE 130 · CEE 130Elementary Structural Mechanics
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Analysis of stress and strain, phenomenological material behavior, extension, bending, and transverse shear stresses in beams with general cross-sections, shear center, deflection of beams, torsion of beams, warping, column instability and failure.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 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 108.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
C&EE 130
- C&EE 108Introduction to Mechanics of Deformable Solids
- C&EE 91Statics
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
1 direct requisite. Showing 16 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
C&EE 130
- C&EE M135CIntroduction to Finite Element Methods
- C&EE 232Theory of Plates and Shells
- C&EE 233Mechanics of Composite Material Structures
- MECH&AE M168Introduction to Finite Element Methods
- MECH&AE 261BFinite Element Analysis for Solids and Structures
- C&EE 235BFinite Element Analysis of Structures
- C&EE 236Stability of Structures I
- C&EE 247Earthquake Hazard Mitigation
6 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 10 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.