Computer Aided Structural Design
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Computer Aided Structural Design Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Computer Aided Structural Design (subject code 3174024) as prescribed for Civil Infra · Semester 7 divides the course into 6 units, covering 33 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3174024)Unit 1 Introduction
- Principles of Virtual work
- Basic concepts of flexibility and stiffness
- Types of skeletal structures
- Internal forces, and deformations
- Introduction and applications of flexibility method and stiffness method to analyze beams
- Trusses, and plane frames
Unit 2 Matrix concepts and Matrix analysis of structures
- basic matrix operations
- solution of linear simultaneous equations
- eigenvalues and eigenvectors
- Coordinate systems
- displacement and force transformation matrices
- Contra- gradient principle
- element and structure stiffness matrices
- Element and structure flexibility matrices
- equivalent joint loads
- Stiffness and flexibility approaches
Unit 3 Stiffness Member Approach
- Analysis of Continuous beam
- Plane truss
- Plane frame and Composite structures including secondary effects such as Temperature variations
- Pre- strains, and Restrained displacement
- Programming direct stiffness method
Unit 4 Special Problems
- Member discontinuities
- Non-prismatic members
- curved members
- beams on elastic supports
- semi-rigid connections
- effect of shear deformations by stiffness method
- Sub-structure analysis and symmetry concepts
Unit 5 Programming
- Analysis of structures using C++ Application: Excel spread sheets for the design of (1) Reinforced Concrete members like slabs
- footings etc
- (2) Steel members like Beam/Girders
- Compression & Tension members
- Connections etc
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