Mastering Virtual Work for Civil Engineering

"In this course you will develop analysis strategies that allow you to apply the Principle of Virtual Work to beam and frame structures. In order to fully leverage this powerful engineering principle, you need to be able to apply it to civil engineering structures that experience bending. That's the focus of this course. By the end of this course you will be confident in calculating unknown deflections for the majority of civil engineering structures you're likely to face. More importantly you'll understand exactly how and why this techniques works; no black-box equations!The mode of presentation is predominantly through hand-drawn notes and sketches; a method universally favoured by every engineering student I've ever had!Section 1: What's the plan?Here I'll set out the plan for the course, discussing what we'll cover and why I've structured the course the way I have. Section 2: Nailing down beam bending basicsHere we're going to focus on covering some basic beam bending theory. One of our aims is to develop a complete understanding of the theory that underpins our analysis techniques. Section 3: Introducing the Principle of Virtual Work and getting our terminology straightHere, we’ll introduce the Principle of Virtual Work. This short refresher section is for the benefit of those who don’t have any background knowledge of virtual work. Section 4: Developing a solution strategy for bendingAt this point we have all the groundwork done on bending behaviour and the Principle of Virtual Work. In this section we’re going to bring all of this knowledge together and start developing the equations and workflow required to apply virtual work to structures in bending. Section 5: Practice Practice Practice!The section contains five challenge questions designed to test you and embed the theory you’ve learned up to this point. So, if this course sounds like it would help you, go ahead and enroll and I'll see you inside!"