Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Award Date
1966
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department / School
Civil Engineering
Abstract
The study presented in this report is restricted to the investigation of the errors involved in computing flexibility and stiffness factors by approximate numerical techniques for various numbers of subdivisions of some typical structural shapes. The beams were (a) uniform EI, (b) nonuniform EI with rectangular cross-sections, and (c) I-beam cross-sections from an actual structure. The I-beam represents on span of the Big Sioux River Bridge crossing of Interstate 29 in Moody County, South Dakota, which is to be constructed in 1966. The methods in this report are (1) Newmark’s technique, (2) conjugate beam method, (3) finite difference solution of beam differential equation, and (4) correction to finite difference solution of beam differential equation, and (4) correction to finite difference solution of beam differential equation. Methods are compared graphically by plotting percentage of error versus number of divisions in the numerical technique for each method and by plotting percentage of error versus computation effort for each method. (see more in text)
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Difference equations
Girders
Format
application/pdf
Publisher
South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Salehe-Rad, Ali, "Approximations to Structural Parameters by Various Numerical Methods" (1966). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3232.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/3232