C&EE 235A

Advanced Structural Analysis

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Recommended: course 135B. Review of matrix force and displacement methods of structural analysis; virtual work theorem, virtual forces, and displacements; theorems on stationary value of total and complementary potential energy, minimum total potential energy, Maxwell/Betti theorems, effects of approximations, introduction to finite element analysis.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Fall 2026

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Requisites

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Requisite: course 135A.

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C&EE 135A

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C&EE 235A

C&EE 135AElementary Structural Analysis
- C&EE M20Introduction to Computer Programming with MATLAB
  - MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications3 more beneath
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I

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C&EE 235A

C&EE 235BFinite Element Analysis of Structures
- C&EE 235CNonlinear Structural Analysis
- C&EE 238Computational Solid Mechanics
C&EE 241Advanced Steel Structures
C&EE 246Structural Response to Ground Motions