Welcome to the course.
I think you've made a really good choice in enrolling in this course.
So in this first video what I really want to do is just give you a bit more of an idea of what to expect
through the course and also some words of advice on how to get the absolute most out of this course.
So in terms of what to expect in the first section really we're going to get a lot of the ground work
done.
I'm gonna talk about the various different aspects or parrots of the moment distribution process and
then I'm going to link all of those together true some simple worked examples.
Now any time you see a lecture that's tight entitled test yourself.
The idea is that you should attempt to try and solve the question in that lecture yourself first before
watching me go step by step through the solution so you'll see those lectures true over the course.
Now in the next section.
I'm gonna take a bit of a sidestep and move away from talking about them on distribution process to
focussing in on lateral stability.
That's going to be really important for our stoodley of frames that we have a good understanding of
lateral stability of structures and what we're talking about here is really when a structural engineer
designs a frame or design a structure how do they ensure a lateral stability on that frame or structure.
So that's gonna to equip us nicely to go on and apply them on distribution process to frames.
Now the following sections we're going to talk first about sweat not sway frames the sword on or play
the mom distribution process to those Narn sway frames.
And then we move on to apply to sway frames.
And again the meaning of sway and nuance way frames is going to be much clearer after we've talked about
lateral stability now our sections aren't frame analysis are really built around worked examples so
you'll have got the basics of how you implement the mom distribution process back in Section 1 and then
after that in particular in our frame analysis sections your reader is going to be applying those to
ever more complicated structures so again make sure you try and attend each one of those questions yourself
before watching me work through the solution.
It really is important because a lot are trying to solve these questions yourself first.
It's your way of testing whether or not you've understood everything that you've seen.
Up until that point and it really is a fantastic learning opportunity and it's a great shame to forego
that by simply sitting back and just watching all of the videos without putting pen to paper yourself
first.
So that's more or less how the Course is going to go or what's in the course what I want to talk about
now is just a couple of points on how I deliver courses sold my day job is as a lecturer in structural
engineering so what I do most of the time is stand up in front of classes full of people such as yourself
and explain analysis techniques or design methods or various different engineering principles and concepts.
And I tend to do that by writing a note and I strongly encourage all of my students to write their notes
in parallel with me.
Now if you're a university student and you're used to going into a lecture and just seeing PowerPoint
slides put up and you basically have to follow through these PowerPoint slides.
That's not how I do things out I think that's a great way of giving a lecture.
I think it's much more effective if I present NATO and write out my notes and you write the notes in
parallel with me.
Now that was a couple of things.
It allows me to take a much steadier more relaxed more logical pace.
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And he lecture on k. and as well it allows you to build up a body of notes in your own handwriting and
that is really really valuable because it is much easier for you to revise a topic or a concept by revising
your own handwritten notes that you understood at the time of writing than it is for you to go and watch
a video lecture again from scratch again.
If you if you make a mental link between something that's in front of you now and something you've seen
previously you can add all of those little additions into your own handwritten version of your note.
And invariably my students comment at the end of all my lecturers.
And actually you know being encouraged to write out those notes was a great piece of advice because
it's nice to have a body of your own work at the end of any module or any lecture.
Then the last thing that I will say really is sort of a housekeeping issue it just relates to the video
playback speed.
So for some of you I'll be talking probably a bit too fast for some of you might be talking a little
too slow so you can speed up or reduce the speed of the video by altering the playback speed in the
control bar at the bottom of the video.
So I do encourage you to play around with the playback speed until you find something that suits you
so that you're happy with it because it'll make the lectures much much easier much when she's your Sitra.
So I think that's an off target for this video.
Let's crack on with the rest of the course.