MACHANICS OF STRUCTURE

(Introduction)

I was working with my hostel building , so the building was construct in the 2014 and it has 0 repairs till now, the building stand with the total 7 floors and basement (basement+7) what I understand while studying the building was , the structural units are made using concrete and are reinforced using rod for the framework of the structure. The walls of the building are made using bricks. It depicts a RCC frame structure building . There are different type of structure like load structure, frame structure, beam structure, etc .

Learnings from the module:

*Loads-Gravity load, self load, wild load, reaction load, Earthquake

*Structure assembly- Foundation , structure and envelope, structure system, load transfer , load tracing.

*Load bearing structure

* Framed structure

* Trusses and portals

*Arches

* Domes

* Folded plate

* Cable structure