C&EE 236 · CEE 236Stability of Structures I
Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
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.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 130 or 135B.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
C&EE 236
- C&EE 130Elementary Structural Mechanics
- C&EE 108Introduction to Mechanics of Deformable Solids
- C&EE 135BIntermediate Structural Analysis
- C&EE 135AElementary Structural Analysis
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
2 direct requisites. Showing 10 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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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.