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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 1000yesIIT Kanpur

    The Syllabus

    • Brief review of linear structural analysis
    • Direct stiffness method

    • Examples of the direct stiffness method of structural analysis
    • Introduction to nonlinear structural analysis
    • Sources of nonlinearities and levels of structural analysis

    • Levels of structural analysis (cont.)
    • Overview of solution strategies and examples 
    • Elasto-plastic behaviour of materials
    • Stress-strain models for metals

    • Idealisation of stress-strain curves
    • Hardening rules
    • Hysteretic models (e.g., elastic perfectly plastic, bilinear plastic, Ramberg-Osgood, Giuffré-Menegotto-Pinto, Bouc-Wen, and modified Kent-Park) and their applications

    • Hysteretic models and their applications (cont.)
    • Flexural yielding of structural steel shapes and the concept of plastic hinge
    • Moment-curvature analysis of structural steel sections
    • P-M interaction curves for steel sections

    • P-M interaction curves for steel sections (cont.)
    • Flexural behaviour of reinforced concrete sections
    • Moment-curvature analysis of reinforced concrete cross-sections
    • P-M interaction curves for reinforced concrete cross-sections
    • Behaviour of reinforced concrete sections under cyclic loading
    • Review of continuum mechanics.

    • Review of continuum mechanics (cont.)
    • Yield criteria: von Mises (J2 plasticity) and Tresca 
    • Flow rules, hardening rules, and loading/unloading criteria

    • Extension of plasticity theory to P-M interaction
    • Lumped plasticity approach for the analysis of seismic load resisting frames
    • Introduction to the distributed plasticity approach

    • Displacement (or stiffness)-based elements
    • Force (or flexibility)-based elements

    • Distributed plasticity approach (cont.)
    • Introduction to geometric nonlinear analysis
    • Geometric stiffness matrices for 2D truss and frame elements
    • Second-order P-Delta and large displacement analyses

    • Load-controlled analysis and examples
    • Displacement-controlled analysis and examples
    • Pushover analysis of LLRS
    • Constant arc length methods

    • Introduction to dynamic analysis
    • Direct integration algorithms: Explicit and implicit algorithms
    • Numerical characteristics of direct integration algorithms
    • Nonlinear dynamic analysis of a buildings subjected to earthquakes

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