List of Models

    Statics
  1. Equilibrium

    2. Model 1: Action and Reaction Forces
    Model 2: Stable and unstable equilibrium
    Model 3: A plate-bottle system
    Model 4: A magnetic "float" model

  2. Centre of Mass

    3. Model 1: Determination of the centre of mass of a piece of cardboard of arbitrary shape
    Model 2: Determination of centre of mass and centroid of a body
    Model 3: Centre of mass of a body in a horizontal plane
    Model 4: Centre of mass of a body in a vertical plane
    Model 5: Centre of mass and stability
    Model 6: Centre of mass and motion
    Model 7: Centre of mass and centre of curvature

  3. Effect of Different Cross Sections

    4. Model 1: Two rectangular beams and an I-section beam
    Model 2: Lifting a book using a bookmark

  4. Bending

    5. Model 1: Assumptions in beam bending
    Model 2: A thin beam and a thick beam

  5. Shear and Torsion

    6. Model 1: Effect of torsion
    Model 2: Effect of shear stress
    Model 3: Effect of shear force
    Model 4: Open and closed sections subject to torsion with warping
    Model 5: Open and closed sections subject to torsion without warping
    Model 6: Shear centre of a thin-walled open section

  6. Stress Distribution

    7. Model 1: Balloons on nails
    Model 2: Uniform and non-uniform stress distributions
    Model 3: Stress concentration
    Model 4: The core of a section

  7. Span and Deflection

    8. Model 1: Effect of spans
    Model 2: Effect of boundary conditions
    Model 3: The bending moment at one fixed end of a beam
    Model 4: Lateral stiffness of vertical members

  8. Direct Force Path

    9. Model 1: Experimental Verification
    Model 2: Direct and zigzag force paths

  9. Smaller Internal Forces

    10. Model 1: A pair of rubber rings
    Model 2: Post-tensioned plastic beams

  10. Buckling

    11. Model 1: Buckling shapes of plastic columns
    Model 2: Buckling loads and boundary conditions
    Model 3: Lateral buckling of beams
    Model 4: Buckling of an empty aluminum can

  11. Prestress

    12. Model 1: Prestressed wooden blocks forming a beam and a column
    Model 2: A toy using prestressing

  12. Horizontal Movements of Structures Induced by Vertical Loads

    13. Model 1: A symmetric frame
    Model 2: An anti-symmetric frame
    Model 3: An asymmetric frame

    Dynamics

  1. Energy Exchange

    2. Model 1: A moving wheel
    Model 2: Collision balls
    Model 3: Dropping a series of balls

  2. Pendulum Systems

    3. Model 1: Natural frequency of suspended systems
    Model 2: Effect of added masses
    Model 3: Static behaviour of an outward inclined suspended system

  3. Free Vibration

    4. Model 1: Free vibration of a pendulum system
    Model 2: Vibration decay and natural frequency
    Model 3: An overcritically-damped system
    Model 4: Mode shapes of a discrete model
    Model 5: Mode shapes of a continuous model
    Model 6: Tension force and natural frequency of a straight tension bar

  4. Resonance

    5. Model 1: Dynamic response of a SDOF system subject to harmonic support movements
    Model 2: Effect of resonance

  5. Damping

    6. Model 1: Observing the effect of damping in free vibrations
    Model 2: Hearing the effect of damping in free vibration

  6. Vibration Reduction

    7. Model 1: A tuned mass damper (TMD)
    Model 2: A tuned-liquid-damper (TLD)
    Model 3: Vibration isolation
    Model 4: A pendulum tuned-mass-damper

  7. Human Body Models in Structural Vibration

    8. Model 1: The body model of a standing person in the vertical direction
    Model 2: The body model of a standing person in the lateral directions