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Lecture Notes

Other institutions’ lecture notes and other learning sites:

• Computational Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technolog;
• Yield Lines – good tutorial site;
• Structural Dynamics – good resource by SD2 author Andrew Kurdila;
• Structural Mechanics – a few gems at this site;
• Structural Analysis – some brief relevant notes here;
• Earthquake Engineering at the Hong Kong Univeristy of Science and Technology;
• Structural Dynamics at University of Michigan.

Structural Engineering Links

• Institution of Structural Engineers;
• Institution of Structural Engineers, Republic of Ireland Branch;
• International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering;
• Engineers Ireland.

Related RSS news feeds are here.

Technical information sites:

• Introduction to Finite Element Methods – superb FE resource;
• Structural Engineer Depository – some good links here;
• Structures via Video – a novel approach to education;
• Waves & Vibration blog – really good animations of waves;
• Computing disasters – what can happen when computers are programmed badly.

General Interest Links

Links to sites of more general interest are:

• RichardDawkins.net – science and how it benefits humanity;
• DIT Faculty of Engineering Blog.
• Moment Distribution – outlines the history of the topic and Prof. Hardy Cross;
• Just The Maths – super site giving good explanations of advanced maths topics.