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Section 7
Course wrap up and debrief
30. Closing comments and advice
02:01
5. Key features of a truss
Quick Review of Trusses
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Fundamentals of Virtual Work for Civil Engineers

Enhance your structural analysis skillset with these powerful engineering analysis techniques.

Fundamentals of Virtual Work for Civil Engineers

After completing this course...

  • You will have a complete understanding of how concepts such as work, energy and elasticity combine to give us the Principle of Virtual Work.
  • You will be able to use Virtual Work to calculate unknown nodal displacements in pin-jointed truss structures.
  • You will be able to use Virtual Work to calculate internal forces in pin-jointed truss structures.
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