Basic structural principles - static and kinematics indeterminacies of a structure - flexibility and stiffness matrices - flexibility and stiffness influence coefficients. choice of redundants - released structure - application of fixed beams, continuous beams and portal frame

Concept of stiffness method - restrained structure -applications to continuous beams and portal frames (with redundancy limited to two)- Introduction to STAAD Pro

Arches as structural forms – Examples of arches – Types of arches – Analysis of three hinged, two hinged, hingeless arch, parabolic, semi-circular and circular arches

Components and their Functions of cables – Cable theorem - Analysis of cable under concentrated loads and UDL – Shape of cable under self weight – Bending Moment and Shear Force in three hinged stiffened girders – Max Bending Moment due to single concentrated load and UDL - Two hinged stiffened girders.

Introduction: Basic concepts of finite element analysis – Element types - Shape functions -Convergence Requirements.-Discretizations-Method of Weighted Residuals: Variational principles -Rayleigh Ritz method - Method of collocation - Analysis problems for bar, truss and Beam elements – ANSYS – Material properties – modeling – meshing – Boundary conditions – Post processing – Introduction to Abacus