C&EE 135A · CEE 135AElementary Structural Analysis
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
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.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses M20 (or Computer Science 31), 108.
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Requires
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C&EE 135A
- C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
2 direct requisites. Showing 6 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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C&EE 135A
- C&EE 125Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering
- C&EE 135BIntermediate Structural Analysis
- MECH&AE M269ADynamics of Structures
- MECH&AE 269BAdvanced Dynamics of Structures
- MECH&AE 269DAeroelastic Effects in Structures
- C&EE 135LStructural Design and Testing Laboratory
- C&EE 141Steel Structures
- C&EE 142Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures
- C&EE 143Design of Prestressed Concrete Structures
- C&EE 148Wood and Timber Design
- C&EE 235AAdvanced Structural Analysis
- C&EE M237ADynamics of Structures
- C&EE 247Earthquake Hazard Mitigation
10 courses list this as a requisite. Showing 42 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.