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Click here to access any available multiple choice tests.When asked, select "Run from its current location" and then select "OK". When asked for your name enter your surname immediately followed by your first initial. |
Important Notice: everyone must get a small geometry set like the type you would have used in secondary school. You will need this to do graphical solutions to structures in class and as assignments. | A few useful websites: Statics Tutorial Writen by: Jack Kayser. and. Michael Massetti. at. Lafayette College. another Statics tutorial ,Engineering mechanics at Loughborough, Trigonometry tutorial at Guelph, Vectors tutorial at Guelph, |
| Multiple choice test results | Attendance | Sean Daltons excellent notes covering a lot of the materials from befor Christmas (not all this material is relevant to our course, so check your own notes before studying each topic) |
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| This week's Practical | This week's lecture. | ||
| 19/09/01 | Introduction to course | 21/09/01 | Structures Appreciation |
| 26/09/01 | Bridge design | 28/09/01 | Introduction to Library |
| 3/10/01 | More Bridge design | 5/10/01 | Statics |
| 10/10/01 | Some multiple choice tests - go to the notice board at the top | 12/10/01 | Statics |
| 17/10/01 | Some small tests - click here. do them in this order: 1. Calculating moments, 2: polygon of forces, 3: wall, tie, beam exercise | 19/10/01 | Statics |
| 24/10/01 | Finish
last week's tests - click here. If you've finished the tests, you might like to read the notes on moments>>> |
26/10/01 | Moments |
| 31/10/01 | Do any
tests on the system. Simulation of Resultant of Vectors |
2/11/01 | Sample Problems using moments and triangle of forces. |
| 7/11/01 | Use the CALMAT software to cover elementary trigonometry. | 9/11/01 | Resolution of Forces. |
| 14/11/01 | Automated tests on Trigonometry and Resolution of Forces.. | 16/11/01 | Use of Trigonometry to
calculate the Ressultant of a series of Forces. Use of a spreadsheet to automate the calculation. |
| 21/11/01 | Use of Spreadsheet
to automatically calculate resultant of a set of Forces. Automated tests on using the spreadsheet. |
23/11/01 | Frameworks and Bow's Notation |
| 28/11/01 | Automated
tests Includes last weeks tests on using the spreadsheet as well as 2 more easier ones on point loads on a beam. |
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| A good tutorial on Vectors. | |||
| 10/4/02 | Shear Force and Bending Moment | ||