C&EE 235C

Nonlinear Structural Analysis

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

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Classification of nonlinear effects; material nonlinearities; conservative, nonconservative material behavior; geometric nonlinearities, Lagrangian, Eulerian description of motion; finite element methods in geometrically nonlinear problems; postbuckling behavior of structures; solution of nonlinear equations; incremental, iterative, programming methods.

Letter grading.

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Requisites

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Requisite: course 235B.

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C&EE 235B

Requires

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

C&EE 235C

C&EE 235BFinite Element Analysis of Structures
- C&EE 130Elementary Structural Mechanics
  - C&EE 108Introduction to Mechanics of Deformable Solids4 more beneath
- C&EE 235AAdvanced Structural Analysis
  - C&EE 135AElementary Structural Analysis2 more beneath

1 direct requisite. Showing 5 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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