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1. Overview
2. Member:
   • Member approaches
3. Determinacy:
   • Determinate structures: statically, dynamically
   • Indeterminate structures: statically, dynamically
4. Columns - strength, stiffness, stability, integrity, fatigue, fracture
5. Beams -
   • Conditions: support, boundary, restraint
   • Actions: elastic, inelastic, transition, catenary (tension), failure modes
   • Geometry: detailing, properties, constitutive, buckling
   • Section: thin, medium, thick (danger of shear locking: shear contribution cover up flexural contribution)
   • Material: stress-strain curves, annealing, molecular physio-chemical energetic interactions
6. Interactions between:
   • Macro-level: loading, structural restraint, weathering
   • Micro-level: molecular bonding, Van der Wals, sliding planes, cracks & fractures
7. Slabs:
   • Actions: elastic, inelastic, transition, catenary (membrane), failure modes
   • Corollary:
   • Plates: stiffened plates of sections - thin, medium & thick (danger of shear locking)
   • Shells: geometrical difference - additional curvatures
   • Membranes: tension membrane effects
8. Theorems relating to elastic systems - Energy methods
9. Slope deflection method
10. Moment distribution method
11. Analysis methodology:
    • Elastic analysis: linear, bilinear, general nonlinear, Nonlinear structural analysis under extreme loadings
    • Elastic-Plastic analysis
    • Plastic analysis
12. Global structure:
    • Conception: specifications, constraints, layout, geometry, material
    • Design:
      • Stages: construction, erection, service, maintenance, overhaul
      • Loads: top-down for dead loads, distributed for imposed loads
      • Assembly: conception, detailing, construction
    • Member level: structural design & analysis
    • Restraint condition: internal-external, mechanical-chemical, artificial-natural
    • Interaction: joints (bolted, welded, contiguous, hybrid), connections
    • Repair: addresses causes of problems & problems themselves, selection & repair materials & methodology
    • Retrofitting: stabilising (against instability & failure modes), strengthening (confinement, restraint - tie, strut, prop, anchor), protection
13. Trusses
14. Arches
15. Cable structures