Lectures related to Space Trusses: Frames and Machines

Introduction to Structural Mechanics: Space Trusses & Frames

Explores space trusses, frames, and hierarchical structural metamaterials, including loaded frames and hydraulic cylinders.

Space Trusses & Frames

Covers space trusses, frames, and machines, emphasizing equilibrium analysis and structural design principles.

Structural Mechanics Principles: Equilibrium and Stability

Explores the principles of structural mechanics, including internal loads, equilibrium stability, and the superposition principle.

Introduction to Structural Mechanics

Introduces structural mechanics concepts like distributed loads, centroids, and equilibrium in 2D and 3D.

Space Trusses, Frames & Machines

Covers the analysis of space trusses, frames, and mechanisms, emphasizing the importance of hierarchy in structural design.

Structures and Mechanisms: Static (Rigid) Structures

Covers the analysis of static (rigid) structures, including equilibrium and free-body diagrams.

Introduction to Structural Mechanics: Systems of Forces

Introduces the fundamental concepts of forces, moments, and their classifications in structural mechanics.

Introduction to Structural Mechanics

Introduces the basics of structural mechanics, covering plane trusses, internal forces, and equilibrium analysis.

Virtual Work II: Examples of Potentials

Covers examples of potentials in virtual work for structural mechanics.

Trusses, Frames & Machines

Covers the analysis of trusses, frames, and machines, focusing on strategies to solve rigid structures.

Structural Mechanics: Systems of Forces

Covers systems of forces, moments, couples, and stress in 2D and 3D, as well as the effect of force-couple systems.

Trusses, Frames & Machines

Covers the analysis of trusses, frames, and machines, focusing on the joints and section methods.

Plane Trusses: Analysis and Strategies

Covers the analysis of rigid structures and strategies to solve isostatic trusses.

Systems of Forces in 3D

Explores systems of forces in three dimensions, emphasizing moments and couples, equilibrium, and scalar components.

Virtual Work I: Introduction to Structural Mechanics

Introduces work, potential energy, and virtual work in structural mechanics, emphasizing equilibrium conditions and their application to solve problems.

3D Space Trusses: Frames and Mechanisms

Discusses the analysis and design of 3D space trusses and frames.

Static Determinacy II

Explores statical determinacy, constraints, and rigid body motion analysis in structures.

Equilibrium States: Forces in Non-Rigid Systems

Discusses equilibrium states and forces in non-rigid systems using the principle of virtual work.

Equilibrium and Forces in 3D: Structural Mechanics

Covers resultants in 3D and equilibrium principles in structural mechanics.

Virtual Work in Structural Mechanics

Explores virtual work in structural mechanics, emphasizing equilibrium states and the application of virtual displacements.