Structures I Assignments

The assigned essays, or problems, can be completed as HTML pages (but can be completed by hand as well) in the individual student's home directory. An e-mail message should be sent to appropriate TA indicating the URL for the assignement. The date of delivery for the assignement will verify that the problem was completed. Numerical problems must Engineer's Calculating Pad. Do not put more than one problem on a sheet. Each problem will be scored on the basis of five points for a correct solution. When solving a problem, state briefly what is given and what is required. A simple, complete and carefully drawn freehand sketch should be included with each problem unless otherwise explicitly indicated.

The assignments should be interpreted as follows. In the reading column, the assigned reading is given as abbreviations: Pet means Petroski's "To Engineer is Human", Sand/Egg means Sandakker and Eggen's "The Structural Basis of Architecture, and Main means Mainstone's "Developments in Structural Form." Optional reading is given within parenthesis (Scho ####). Scho means Dan Schodek's "Structures, Second Edition."

The problems which are assigned each day are associated with a specific "Lecture." More than one topical lecture is presented on any given day. Each topical lecture has distinc problems associated with that topic. The homework assigned for any given day will be a combination of one or more of the problems from one or more of the topical lectures. Thus, the links indicated below are direct links to the appropriate page(s) for day's assignments. To interpret the actual assignment: L1-1 means Lecture 1, Problem 1; L3-2 means Lecture 3, Problem 2. Each of the problems indicated in the right hand column should be completed.

Even though a number of problems will be assigned, only one of the assigned numerical problems will be collected and graded each lecture period. The assignments are due prior to the beginning of the lecture!

Week	Day	Readings	Problems
1	1	Pet preface & pp. 1 - 21	L1 - 1
	2	Pet pp. 21 - 74 Sand/Egg 1.3 - 2.1 Two Bridge Failures	L2 - 1, L3 - 1 or 2
2	Day 3	Sand/Egg 2.1 - 2.6 (Scho 2.2.1 - 2.2.2, 2.3)	L4 - 3, L5 - 2, L6 - 2
	Day 4	Sand/Egg 2.7 - 2.10 (Scho 2.2.3 - 2.2.6)	L8 - 2, L9 - 1
3		President's Day Holiday	President's Day Holiday
	Day 5	Lecture 8, Lecture 10, Lecture 12	L10 - 2, 5 L12 - 3, 4
4	Day 6	* pp. * - * * pp. * - *	L13 - 1, 2, 7 L14 - 1, 7
	Day 7		L15 - 2,5,8
5	Day 8	Pet pp. 75 - 107 (Scho 3.2)	L17 - 1
	Day 9	Pet pp. 108 - 135	Walk-About
6	Day 10	Read Handout Materials	Lateral Loading Assessment
	Day 11	Lecture 22, Lecture 23, Lecture 24, Lecture 25	97-1, 97-2
7	Day 12	* pp. * - * * pp. * - *	Bridge Forces, Stress and Optimization
	Day 13	* pp. * - * * pp. * - *	96-1
8		*Spring Break*	*Spring Break*
9	Day 14	Snow Closure	no homework
	Day 15	No Reading Assignment	No Homework Assignment
10	Day 16 (8. April 1997)	Sand/Egg 5.0 - 5.3 Lecture 28, Lecture 29, Lecture 30	Class Notes # 113, 114, 139
	Day 17 (10. April 1997)	Sand/Egg 5.4 - 5.8 Lecture 31, Lecture 32, Lecture 33, Lecture 34, Lecture 35	Class Notes #149 Case Study Column
11	Day 18 (15. April 1997)	Sand/Egg 4.1 - 4.2 Lecture 36	Class Notes # 58-1, 63-I, 63-II
	Day 19 (17. April 1997)	Sand/Egg 4.3 - 4.8	Class Notes # 167-1, 169, 175-A (distributed load = 500 #/ft, point load = 6 kips. distance between supports is 18 ft. and the concentrated load is at a point 12 ft. from Reaction 1)
12		Patriots Day Holiday	No Homework
	Day 20 (24. April 1997)	Pet pp. 108 - 135 Sand/Egg 7.1 - 7.4 Read Lectures 37 - 41	Class Notes 168-1, 170-1, 158 (also Moment diagrams)
13	Day 21 (29. April 1997)	Read Truss Handout	Case Study Beam. Loads, shear, moment and deflection.
	Day 22 (1. May 1997)	* pp. * - * * pp. * - *	Class Notes # 175-D, 187-1, 212 (ignore e)
14	Day 23 (6. May 1997)	Sand/Egg Chapter 3 (Scho 4.1, 4.2)	essay
	Day 24 (8. May 1997)	Sand/Egg Chapter 6	not permitted
15	Day 25 (13. May 1997)	Sand/Egg Chapter 7	not permitted
	Day 26 (15. May 1997)	prepare for final	not permitted

Final Exam

The FINAL EXAM will cover all lecture material, readings in SB and AT, topics covered in the slide lectures and comprehensive problems from the entire quarter. It will be a closed book exam. Bring: pencils, 3 colored pencils/pens, scale, two triangles, and a calculator. All other course materials should not be brought into the exam room; any other materials will be removed from the exam room. ONE hand-written, or typed original, cheat sheet (two 8.5 x 11 sides) may be brought with you into the exam. These will be turned in with the exam. You will be assigned seats. Note your number on the list outside of the exam room. Please make any requests that you have for special seating known by the end of Week 10.