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ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES:
FORM, BEHAVIOR, AND DESIGN
ARCH 614
DR. ANNE NICHOLS
SPRING 2016
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loads, forces
and vectors
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Structural Design• planning
• preliminary structural configuration
• determination of loads
• preliminary member selection
• analysis
• evaluation
• design revision
• final design
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• STATIC and DYNAMIC
• dead load
– static, fixed, includes
building weight, fixed
equipment
• live load
– transient and moving
loads (including
occupants), snowfall
Structural Loads
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• wind loads
– dynamic, wind pressures treated as lateral
static loads on walls, up or down loads on
roofs
Structural Loads
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• earthquake loads
– seismic, movement of
ground
Structural Loads
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• impact loads
– rapid, energy loads
Structural Loads
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Forces
• statics
– physics of forces and reactions on bodies
and systems
– equilibrium (bodies at rest)
• forces
– something that exerts on an object:
• motion
• tension
• compression
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Forces
• “action of one body on another that
affects the state of motion or rest of the
body”
• Newton’s 3rd law:
– for every force of action
there is an equal and
opposite reaction along
the same line
http://www.physics.umd.edu
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Force Vectors
• applied at a point
• magnitude
– Imperial units: lb, k (kips)
– SI units: N (newtons), kN
• direction
• sense
(tail) (tip)
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• for statics, the bodies are ideally rigid
• can translate
and rotate
• internal forces are
– in bodies
– between bodies (connections)
• external forces act on bodies
Forces on Rigid Bodies
translate rotate
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• the force stays on the same line of
action
• truck can’t tell the difference
• only valid for EXTERNAL forces
Transmissibility
=
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Force System Types
• collinear
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Force System Types
• coplanar
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Force System Types
• space
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Adding Vectors
• graphically
– parallelogram law
• diagonal
• long for 3 or more vectors
– tip-to-tail
• more convenient
with lots of vectors
F
P
R
F
P
R
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Force Components
• convenient to resolve into 2 vectors
• at right angles
• in a “nice” coordinate system
• is between Fx and F from FxFy
Fx
F
x
y
Fy
Fx
F
Fy
Fx
F
cosFFx
sinFFy 22
yx FFF
x
y
F
Ftan
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Trigonometry
• Fx is negative
– 90 to 270
• Fy is negative
– 180 to 360
• tan is positive
– quads I & III
• tan is negative
– quads II & IV -6-5-4-3-2-10123456
-6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
X
Y
Quadrant IQuadrant II
Quadrant III Quadrant IV
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Component Addition
• find all x components
• find all y components
• find sum of x components, Rx (resultant)
• find sum of y components, Ry
22
yx RRR
x
y
R
Rtan
Fy
Fx
R
Py
Px
Rx
Ry
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Alternative Trig for Components
• doesn’t relate angle to axis direction
• is “small” angle between F and
EITHER Fx or Fy
• no sign out of calculator!
• have to choose RIGHT
trig function, resulting
direction (sign) and
component axis
+/-? Fy
+/-? Fx
F
x
y
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Static Equilibrium
• balanced & steady
• no motion or translation
• equilibrant opposite resultant
X
X
=
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Cables
• simple
• uses
– suspension bridges
– roof structures
– transmission lines
– guy wires, etc.
• have same tension all along
• can’t stand compression
http:// nisee.berkeley.ed/ugodden
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Cables Structures
• use high-strength steel
• need
– towers
– anchors
• don’t want movement
http:// nisee.berkeley.edu/godden
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Cable Loads
• straight line
between forces
• with one force
– concurrent
– symmetric
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Cable Loads
• shape directly
related to the
distributed load