Hardy Column Analogy 3

[Celt83]

Does anyone have a go to resource or book for the Hardy Column Analogy?

I've been able to find bits+pieces via some google searches but would love if I could find a textbook or practical example source.

Open Source Structural Applications:

https://github.com/buddyd16/Structural-Engineering

 

[IDS]

Celt83 - thanks for the links to your code, I'll have a look when I have time.

I'm curious why you are looking at this approach for computer analysis though. What do you see as the advantages?

Doug Jenkins
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[Celt83]

IDS:
I'm not entirely sure what if any advantages there may be to my programming endeavors beyond me just having a better understanding of principles of the analysis. My gut tells me it is useful for non-prismatic stuff such as slabs with drop panels and maybe taking the approach of modifying stiffness matrices to account for those types of members vs pre-processing and dividing bars into sets of prismatic members.

Really though we touched on some of these methods, I had never heard of the three moment method until I bought myself a copy of Blodgett's book, in my undergrad education but didn't really dive in because well there is only so much you can pack into a semester and hey there is software now. So I'm trying to get myself back on track with really understanding whats happening behind the user interface of these programs and have some of these other methods down so I can do some quick reality checks when needed.

Edit:
After I re-read my post a couple times I realized it reflects a bit poorly on my education experience. I want to clarify that I feel I received an excellent education from some very enthusiastic professors and that any gaps in my knowledge are really a reflection on the type of student I was at the time. I've reached a point in my life/career that reading these texts in my free time and working to develop programs that can perform these analysis methods in a general form is what I consider to be really fun vs back in my undergrad life "fun" was going to party's and doing basically anything else that wasn't advancing my knowledge in the topics I was learning beyond what I picked up in the classroom.

Open Source Structural Applications:

https://github.com/buddyd16/Structural-Engineering

 

[IDS]

So I'm trying to get myself back on track with really understanding whats happening behind the user interface of these programs and have some of these other methods down so I can do some quick reality checks when needed

OK, I'm sure all of we older engineers will greatly approve of that

Doug Jenkins
Interactive Design Services

http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/