Credits and License

Credits and License#

You can refer to this book as:

Van Woudenberg, Tom (2024) TeachBook Bridging course Structural Mechanics. TeachBooks/bridging_mechanics

The introduction, structure of the book and formatting of contents is done by the Editors.

You can refer to individual chapters or pages within this book as:

<Title of Chapter or Page> (2024). In Van Woudenberg, Tom, TeachBook Bridging course Structural Mechanics. TeachBooks/bridging_mechanics

We anticipate that the content of this book will change significantly. Therefore, we recommend using the source code directly with the citation above that refers to the GitHub repository and lists the date and name of the file. Although content will be added over time, chapter titles and URL’s in this book are expected to remain relatively static. However, we make no guarantee, so if it is important for you to reference a specific location within the book. For example:

<Title of Chapter or Page>. In Van Woudenberg, Tom, TeachBook Bridging course Structural Mechanics. TeachBooks/bridging_mechanics (./book/<path to Chapter or Page> chapter, accessed date).

How the book is made#

This website is written in markdown and jupyter notebooks files, which are converted to html using tools from TeachBooks. The files are stored on a public GitHub repository. The website can be viewed at http://oit.tudelft.nl/CT1000/.

To recreate the website you have two options (more information in the TeachBooks manual:

  • In the GitHub interface: fork this repository, enable Github Pages from the source GitHub actions (Settings - Code and automation - Pages - Build and deployment - Source - GitHub Actions), enable workflows (Actions - I understand my workflows, go ahead and enable them) and run the call-deploy-book workflow (Actions - call-deploy-book - Run workflow - Run workflow). The website is released on the URL as shown on the workflow summary when the workflow has finished (Actions - call-deploy-book - call-deploy-book - Summary).

  • On your own computer: clone this repository, install the required packages (pip install -r requirements.txt) and build the book (teachbooks build book). The website is stored locally in book/_build/index.html.

License#

This book is CC BY 4.0 licensed allowing you to share and adapt the material, as long as the source is named. External resources that are reused in this book are listed below.

External resources#

Parts of this book are taken from other external resources and reused in various ways. In particular, material is shared with the book CTB2210 - Constructiemechanica 3 2025/2026 and Structural Mechanics @ BSc Civil Engineering.

About the Editors#

Tom van Woudenberg#

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Tom van Woudenberg is a lecturer at Delft University of Technology. Equipped with a dedication to education in structural mechanics, I strive to cultivate a blended learning environment that engages students actively and rewards their efforts.

Tom graduated in 2020 at Delft University of Technology on structural optimisation. From August 2020 to August 2022, Tom worked at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences as lecturer construction, specialised in structural mechanics. Since September 2022, Tom is working at Delft University of Technology.

Next to courses on structural mechanics, Tom (co)teaches courses on optimisation, numerical methods, data-analysis and statistics. Next to that, Tom supervises BSc- and MSc-students, partly on the research project of Macaulay’s method. Furthermore, Tom is actively involved in cross-faculty collaboration on PRIMECH, TeachBooks and various digital tools for teaching like ANS and Git.

Bart Slingerland#

Bart Slingerland is a teaching assistant, who has partly written the content in this book.

Acknowledgements#

Big thanks to the various colleagues (with Robert Lanzafame in particular) and teaching assistant part of the TeachBooks for developing tools and providing support to improve this book.

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