The document outlines a 30-week course on the theory of structures for third year building and construction technology engineering students. It aims to teach students to determine internal forces in structures and how forces are distributed due to external and internal effects. Over the course, students will learn about statically determinate and indeterminate structures, internal straining forces like normal force, shear force and bending moment in different beam types, frames and trusses, influence lines, moving loads, approximate analysis methods for indeterminate structures, virtual work methods and slope-deflection and moment distribution analysis techniques.

1. Technical college//Mosul
30 Weeks
No. of week hours
Department: Building & Construction
Technology Engineering
Th. App. Unit
2 1 5
Third Year Subject: Theory of Structures
Objectives :
The student will learn the determination of internal forces in different structures and the
kind of forces distribution due to external & internal effects .He will also learn about the
structures deformation due to these effects .
Week Syllabus
1,2
Introduction to the theory of structures. Types of structures, Loads, Supports.
3,4,
Statically determinate structures & statically indeterminate structures.
5,6,7,8
Internal straining action , Normal force , Shearing force , Bending moment.
9, 10
Horizontal cantilever, Inclined cantilever, Simple beams, Beams with over hanging
ends , Compound beams .
11, 12, 13 Frames & trusses.
14, 15, 16
Influence lines, Definition & use , Beams , Trusses ( statically determinate ).
17,18,
19 Moving load , Maximum moment and shear , Force in truss member.
20,21 Approximate analysis for indeterminate structures .
22, 23 Virtual work ( unit load method ).
24, 25 Slope-deflection method .
26, 27, 28, 29, 30
Moment distribution method .