Course schedule 📅

Click the dropdown blocks below to find a detailed schedule for the course activities per week. Clicking the links will take you to the relevant content pages.

Week 1 (September 1th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines						Wednesday: Read theory and make homework exercises Statics externally Prerequisites
Class activities	Introduction course and prerequisite test 1 Prerequisites		Prerequisites test Prerequisites		Evaluation test Prerequisites

Week 2 (September 8th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines			Read theory and make homework exercises Statics Prerequisites		Read theory and make homework exercises virtual work Prerequisites	Monday: Read theory and make homework exercise equilibrium relations and cables Prerequisites
Class activities	Demonstration Differential equations New content		Guided practice on Statics externally Prerequisites		Guided practice on virtual work Prerequisites

Week 3 (September 15th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines	Read theory and make homework exercises equilibrium relations and cables Prerequisites		Read theory and make homework exercises constitutive and kinematic equations, and MatrixFrame Prerequisites		Read theory and make homework exercises differential equations and SymPy New content	Monday: Read theory and make homework exercises Extension Prerequisites
Class activities	Guided practice on equilibrium relations and cables Prerequisites		Guided practice on constitutive and kinematic equations, and MatrixFrame Prerequisites		Guided practice on differential equations and SymPy New content

Week 4 (September 22nd)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines			Read theory and make homework exercises statical determinacy and extension Prerequisites		Read theory and make homework exercises extension and Williot Prerequisites	Monday: Read theory and make homework exercises Force method extension New content
Class activities	Demonstration force method extension New content		Guided practice on statical determinacy and extension Prerequisites		Guided practice on extension and Williot Prerequisites

Week 5 (September 29th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines	Read theory and make homework exercises Force method extension New content				Read theory and make homework exercises internal forces bending Prerequisites	Monday: Read theory and make homework exercises displacement bending Prerequisites
Class activities	Guided practice on force method extension New content		Demonstration Force method bending New content		Guided practice on Section force diagrams Prerequisites

Week 6 (October 6th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines	Read theory and make homework exercises displacement bending Prerequisites		Read theory and make homework exercises force method bending beams New content		Read theory and make homework exercises force method bending frames New content	Wednesday: Read theory and make homework exercises displacement method New content
Class activities	Guided practice on displacement bending Prerequisites		Guided practice on force method bending beams New content		Read theory and make homework exercises force method frames New content

Week 7 (October 13th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines			Read theory and make homework exercises Displacement method New content		Read theory and make homework exercises displacement method 2 and matrix method New content	Thursday: Read theory and make homework exercises stiffness discontinuities and support settlement New content
Class activities	Demonstration Displacement method New content		Guided practice on Displacement method New content		Guided practice on displacement method 2 and matrix method New content

Week 8 (October 20th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines				Read theory and make homework exercises Stiffness discontinuities and support settlement New content	Read theory and make homework exercises temperature influences New content	Friday week 10: Prepare for exam assignment Statically indeterminate structures New content Prerequisites
Class activities	Demonstration support settlement, stiffness discontinuities and temperature influences			Guided practice on Stiffness discontinuities and support settlement New content	Guided practice on temperature influences New content

Week 10 (November 3th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines					Prepare for exam assignment Statically indeterminate structures New content Prerequisites	Friday: Read theory and make homework exercise cross-sectional properties Prerequisites
Class activities					Exam assignment 1 statically indeterminate structures New content Prerequisites

Week 11 (November 10th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines		Read theory and make homework exercise cross-sectional properties Prerequisites			Read theory and make homework exercise normal stresses Prerequisites	Monday: Read theory and make homework exercise shear stresses in bending elements Prerequisites
Class activities	Review exam assignment 1 statically indeterminate structures New content Prerequisites Demonstration transforming stress- and strain tensors New content	Guided practice on cross-sectional properties Prerequisites			Guided practice on normal stresses Prerequisites

Week 12 (November 17th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines	Read theory and make homework exercise shear stresses in bending elements Prerequisites	Read theory and make homework exercise core of cross-section Prerequisites			Read theory and make homework exercises transforming tensors New content	Monday: Read theory and make homework exercises on stress-strain relations New content
Class activities	Guided practice on shear stresses in bending elements Prerequisites	Guided practice on core of cross-section Prerequisites			Guided practice on transforming tensors New content

Week 13 (November 24th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines	Read theory and make homework exercise on stress-strain relations New content				Read theory and make homework exercise shear force centre Prerequisites	Monday: Read theory and make homework exercise torsional internal forces Prerequisites
Class activities	Guided practice on stress-strain relations New content	Demonstration failure criteria New content			Guided practice on shear force centre Prerequisites

Week 14 (December 1st)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines	Read theory and make homework exercise torsional internal forces Prerequisites	Read theory and make homework exercise shear stresses in torsional elements Prerequisites			Read theory and make homework exercise failure citeria New content	Wednesday: Prepare for exam assignments statically indeterminate structure and continuum mechanics New content Prerequisites
Class activities	Guided practice on torsional internal forces Prerequisites	Guided practice on shear stresses in torsional elements Prerequisites			Guided practice on failure criteria New content

Week 15 (December 8th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines		Prepare for exam assignments statically indeterminate structure and continuum mechanics New content Prerequisites				End-of-week homework Systems with 1 dof New content
Class activities		Exam assignment 2 statically indeterminate structure and 1 continuum mechanics New content Prerequisites		Review exam assignment 2 statically indeterminate structures and assignment 1 continuum mechanics New content Prerequisites

Week 16 (December 15th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines					End-of-week homework Systems with 1 dof New content	End-of-week homework Systems with 1 and infinite number dofs New content
Class activities	Lecture New content	Lecture New content		Lecture New content

Week 17 (January 5th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines					End-of-week homework Systems with 1 and infinite number dofs New content	End-of-week homework Systems with 1 and infinite number dofs New content
Class activities	Lecture New content	Lecture New content		Lecture New content

Week 18 (January 12th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines					End-of-week homework Flexural buckling, Eulerian approach New content	Friday week 20: Prepare for exam assignments continuum mechanics and buckling New content Prerequisites
Class activities	Lecture New content	Lecture New content		Lecture New content

Week 20 (January 26th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Upcoming homework
Homework deadlines					Prepare for exam assignments continuum mechanics and buckling New content Prerequisites	Monday week 30: Prepare for exam assignments continuum mechanics and buckling New content Prerequisites
Class activities					Exam assignment 2 continuum mechanics and 1 buckling New content Prerequisites

Week 30 (April 14th)

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Homework deadlines				Prepare for exam assignment buckling New content Prerequisites
Class activities				Exam assignment 2 buckling New content Prerequisites