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Fundamentals This section provides brief description of fundamental structural concepts that are used in other parts of this module. These alphabetically-ordered terms and concepts are not intended to be used as an independent part of this work. Instead, their main application is to clarify the terms used in other parts of this module. |
- Allowable Stress
- Architectural Structures
- Beams
- Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- Buckling of Compression Members
- Building Codes
- Cartesian Coordinate System
- Columns
- Connections
- Degrees of Freedom and Support Reaction
- Determinate and Indeterminate Spatial Structures and Trusses
- Different Steel Shapes
- Equilibrium Equations
- External and Internal Forces
- Frames
- Galvanization and Powder Sintering
- Geometric Properties of Areas
- Hot-Rolling, Cold-Forming, Extrusion and Forging
- Joint Method
- Joints
- Modulus of Elasticity (Young's Modulus)
- Moment and couple
- Ponding
- Purlins
- Section Method
- Slabs
- Slab Analogy
- Spatial Structures
- Stiffness and Strength
- Stress-Strain Relationship
- Temperature Effects and Stress Due to Temperature Change
- Tensile, Compressive and Bending Stresses and Strains
- Trusses
- Types of Loads
- Types of Supports
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