Posts and beams can be steel, wood or engineered lumber. When placing joists, studs, rafters or trusses, carpenters need to ...

The course is mainly focused to plane structures with line members (beams and trusses) under linear theory hypotheses. Various types of structures are analyzed such as simple beam, continuous beam, ...

And a truss uses bars to form triangles between the vertical frames, called columns, and horizontal frames, called beams. Brick and stone are popular, strong building materials. They can be placed ...

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Topics includes composition and resolution of forces; moments and couples; equivalent force systems; free-body diagrams; equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies; forces in trusses and beams; ...

Two-dimensional statics are covered including force and moment systems, free body diagrams, equilibrium, friction, and the application to structures (such as beams, frames and trusses) that will be ...