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Course Name	Turkish	Yapı Stabilitesi
	English	Stability Structures
Course Code	YAP 540E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Hale Ergün
Course Objectives		Stability of equilibrium. Bifurcation. Examples from rigid body mechanics. Euler Column. Large deflection theory of columns. Large deflection theory of columns. Initially deflected columns. Eccentrically loaded columns. Inelastic buckling of columns. General theory of columns. Columns with intermediate loading. Columns with variable cross sections. Approximate methods in determining buckling loads. Successive approximation methods. Method of finite differences. Energy Methods Rayleigh-Ritz method. Calculus of Variations. Matrix-Stiffness method. Beam-columns. Buckling of frames. Slope-deflection equations. Torsional buckling of rods. Lateral buckling of rods. Snap through buckling.
Course Description		Stability of equilibrium. Bifurcation. Examples from rigid body mechanics. Euler Column. Large deflection theory of columns. Large deflection theory of columns. Initially deflected columns. Eccentrically loaded columns. Inelastic buckling of columns. General theory of columns. Columns with intermediate loading. Columns with variable cross sections. Approximate methods in determining buckling loads. Successive approximation methods. Method of finite differences. Energy Methods Rayleigh-Ritz method. Calculus of Variations. Matrix-Stiffness method. Beam-columns. Buckling of frames. Slope-deflection equations. Torsional buckling of rods. Lateral buckling of rods. Snap through buckling.
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Textbook		Alexander Chajes, Pinciples of Structural Stability Theory, Prentice-Hall 1974
Other References		1. Alexander Chajes, Pinciples of Structural Stability Theory, Prentice-Hall 1974 (paperback edition Waveland Press, 1993). (textbook) 2. Z. P. Bazant and L. Cedolin, Stability of Structures, Oxford University Press, 1991. 3. W.F.Chen and E.M. Lui, Structural Stability- Theory and Implementation, Prentice Hall , 1987. 4. Frederich Bleich, Buckling of Metal structures, McGraw Hill, 1952. 5. S.Timoshenko and J.Gere, Theory of Elastic Stability, McGraw Hill, 1961 ( paperback edition by Dover Publications, 2009). 6. C.H.Yoo and S.C.Lee, Stability of Structures: Principles and Applications, Elsevier, 2011.

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