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Qualitative and quantitative analysis and design of architectural structures, force flow; structure configurations; measurement and experiments; design studio critique. This course is for students majoring in architecture.

AE 210, 3 credits in mathematics

The basic objective of this course is to give architecture students enough comfort and familiarity with structural design to enable them to make professional decisions about the required size and configuration of structural elements, and their impact on architectural design.

Students will

• understand load paths through buildings
• design wood floor systems to resist gravity loads
• design wood columns
• complete conceptual design of wood frames
• complete conceptual design of wood truss systems
• complete conceptual design of steel joists, beams and columns
• complete conceptual design of steel floor framing systems
  

1. Load Paths
2. Axial force
3. Shear and bending moment
4. Axial and bending stress
5. Centroid and moment of inertia
6. Section modulus
7. Residential design problem
8. Wood joist design
9. Wood beam design
10. Commercial design problem
11. Wood column design
12. Wood truss design
13. Wood frame design
14. Floor framing design problem
15. Steel beam design
16. Steel column design
17. Steel frame design
18. Building systems

2 classes/week, 55 minutes/class