4.442 Indeterminate Stuctures COURSE OUTLINE

Week	System	Tuesday	Wednesday Lab Sessions	Thursday
1 (1. September)	Intro	NO MEETING	NO MEETING	Intro
2 (8. September)	Reinforced Concrete	Opus Caementitium The Rediscovery of Concrete in Europe	Concrete Lab Silt Test Cracks	Characteristics and Components of RC
3 (15. (September)	Reinforced Concrete	RC Building Systems	Pour Cylinders	Cement Production
4 (22. September)	Reinforced Concrete	Bending Theory Strength Design	Make Reinforcing Cages	Guest Lecture: Zalewski: Concrete Structures
5 (29. September)	Reinforced Concrete	Guest Lecture: Foster: Concrete Structures	Pour Beams	Walk-about with Andy Foster
6 (6. October)	Reinforced Concrete	Soils Foundation Systems	Make Shells	Questions
7 (13. October)	Reinforced Concrete	Evolution of thin-shelled RC surface structures	no meeting	Guest Lecture: Zalewski: Shell Structures
8 (20. October)	Reinforced Concrete	Questions Guest Presentation: Christenson: MultiFrame	Break Beams	Quiz 1
9 (27. October)	Wood	Properties of Wood Timber Products and Applications	Break Shells	Components Connections
10 (3. November)	Wood	System Stability Bracing Long Spans (I)	Trusses (I): Build ZT Trusses Predict Behavior	Long Spans (II) Timber Building Systems (I)
11 (10. November)	Wood	NO CLASSES	Trusses (II): Build MF Model Analyze Behavior	Timber Building Systems (II)
12 (17. November)	Wood	Timber and Steel Connections	Wood Connection Failures	Split-Ring Steel-Plates Hankinson Trusses
13 (24. November)	Steel	High Rise Steel Systems	NO LAB	NO CLASSES
14 (1. December)	Steel	Tensile Structures (I)	Tension (I)	The Funicular Form
15 (8. December)		Tensile Structures (II)	Tension (II)	Summary Lecture Course Evaluation
16 (15. December)	Exam Week	Exam at 9:00 AM Monday 15.December 1997