Civil & Environmental Engrg 549 - Structural Stability
Spring
2017
01
3.00
Symeon Gerasimidis
TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM
UMass Amherst
16612
Linear and nonlinear buckling of columns, beam-columns, frames and plates. Role of linearization in formulation of stability problems. Adjacent equilibrium, kinetic, imperfection and energy criteria for stability analysis. Variational approaches for formulating and solving buckling problems. Prerequisites: CE-ENGIN 331 and MATH 331.
Open to Seniors and Graduate students only with a GPA of 3.0 or better. Pre Req: CE-ENGIN 331 & MATH 3