C&EE 135A

Elementary Structural Analysis

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Introduction to structural analysis; classification of structural elements; analysis of statically determinate trusses, beams, and frames; deflections in elementary structures; virtual work; analysis of indeterminate structures using force method; introduction to displacement method and energy concepts.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses M20 (or Computer Science 31), 108.

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all of

one of
- C&EE M20
- COM SCI 31
COM SCI 108

· "COM SCI 108" is not in this catalog version

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

C&EE 135A

C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
  - MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students1 more beneath
  - MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series1 more beneath
  - MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables1 more beneath

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

C&EE 135A

C&EE 125Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering
C&EE 135BIntermediate Structural Analysis
- C&EE 142LReinforced Concrete Structural Laboratory
- C&EE 147Design and Construction of Tall Buildings
- C&EE 236Stability of Structures I