Structural engineering: Difference between revisions

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Summary	Designs Footbridge Industial building	Tecnical assessment
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Structural Design process

Summary of the structural design process

Guidance

Environment, sustainability

Risk

Buildability

Technical assesment -using codes of practice

Modelling

Cost

Aesthetics

Ethics

Case studies

Designs

Structural design of a footbridge

Structural design of an industrial building

Performance cases

Successes

The Queensferry Bridge

Failures

Structural mechanics

The mathematical logic and procedures that predict the behaviour of structures when resisting applied loads. It is a type of predictive model used in the technical assessment of structures.

Stuctural analysis - the use of structural mechanics to predict the behaviour of structural systems or sub-frames
Strength and stiffness of materials

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 [[Structural design of a footbridge]]
 Structural design of an industrial building
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 [https://engineers.scot/office/resources/publications/ies-journal-2018-qfbridge.pdf The Queensferry Bridge]
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 ===Structural mechanics===
 The mathematical logic and procedures that predict the behaviour of structures when resisting applied loads. It is a type of [[Quantify|predictive model]] used in the technical assessment of structures.
-* [[Structural Analysis:|Stuctural analysis]] -  the use of structural mechanics to predict the behaviour of structural systems or sub-frames
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-=== [[Dictionary Structural engineering]] ===
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