C&EE 236

Stability of Structures I

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

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Elastic buckling of bars. Different approaches to stability problems. Inelastic buckling of columns and beam columns. Columns and beam columns with linear, nonlinear creep. Combined torsional and flexural buckling of columns. Buckling of plates.

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Requisite: course 130 or 135B.

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C&EE 236

C&EE 130Elementary Structural Mechanics
- C&EE 108Introduction to Mechanics of Deformable Solids
  - C&EE 91Statics2 more beneath
  - MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables2 more beneath
  - MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials2 more beneath
  - PHYSICS 1A

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