In this advanced on lecture on analysis of building, the structural analysis and plastic analysis through the energy method are traced and the beam analysis on the elastic foundation and plate analysis are introduced also.

Lecture contents : concept of stiffness matrix analysis for line element structures such as trusses and moment frames.

-Introduction to Matrix Analysis

-Technique for Matrix calculations

-Linear analysis of trusses

-Linear analysis of moment frames

-Variational Principles (Energy method)

-Geometric nonlinear analysis of truss and frame

-Material Nonlinear analysis

-Solution of linear algebraic equations

-Solution of nonlinear equilibrium equations

-Computer program for truss and frame analysis