Stiffness matrix method and Flexibility matrix method

About this course

In this course you learn the basics and concepts of stiffness method, how to develop a stiffness matrix, what is stiffness, how to develop flexibility matrix and various numericals.Stiffness matrix method is one of the popular methods in computational structural analysis as it is programming friendly. You can write a lot of programs in different programming languages using the concepts of stiffness matrix method.Flexibility matrix method also called as force method is one of the basic structural analysis techniques that enables the civil engineer to analyse a structure using the energy methods like unit load method or strain energy method.Stiffness and flexibility are opposite to each other stiffness is force based method whereas stiffness is displacement-based methodThis course is suitable to all level of civil engineers be it a student or a working professional who want to brush up their knowledge. This course will enable the student to create an analytical thinking in solving structural analysis problems and develop an affinity towards structural analysis.At the end of the course the student will be able to develop stiffness and flexibility matrix for a beam element or a plane frame element, solve complex numericals related to stiffness and flexibility matrix method and perform operations of structural analysis efficiently.