LESSON MODULE 4 (Part 2) MATRIX DISPLACEMENT METHOD RIGID FRAMES EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN NODAL LOADS AND MEMBER FORCES

The principles applied in this section are the most obvious. Considering all forces acting at a given joint or floor level, the principles of equilibrium are used to equate the sum total of these forces to zero.

It will be helpful to remember the sign conventions: moments are positive in the clockwise directions, direct forces pointing upwards and to the right are positive. JOINT CONDITIONS: ( M about the joint = 0) @ joint 1: P1 F1 F6 = 0 @ joint 2: P2 F2 F8 = 0 @ joint 3: P3 F3 F5 F10 = 0 @ joint 4: P4 F4 F7 F12 = 0 @ joint 5: P5 F9 = 0 See Fig 5-7 below:

V=
Fh at the 3rd Floor level: P6 + + ; P6 =

When written in matrix form, P = (A)(F) Note that the matrix (A) above is the exact transpose of the (B) matrix in the equation D = (B)(X) This means that either (A) or (B) may be generated and the other is the transpose. Since F = (S)(D) and D =(B)(X),

F = (S)(B)(X) = (S)(AT)(X)
Likewise,

P = (A)(F) then P = (A)(S)(AT)(X) or P = (K)(X) where K = (A)(S)(AT)

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In the matrix equation P = (A)(S)(A equivalent Linear System.

)(X), only displacement matrix (X) is unknown. Solve as an

Now multiply matrix AT with the matrix (S) from the F = (S)(D) relation to form matrix (S)(AT):

Form the (K) matrix by multiplying the above with matrix (A) of the relation P = (A)(F). This would give us

Form the P matrix: P = (K)(X). P is the same column matrix from P = (A)(F). Note that P6 = 10 KN and P7 = 20 KN. P1, P2, P3, P4, P5 are all zero. Form an augmented matrix of P and K matrix with the elements of column matrix P as the last column of the augmented matrix. This enables us to solve for elements of column matrix (X). Reduce this augmented matrix to row reduced form by Gauss Jordan elimination. The augmented matrix should look like the matrix below:

Once the above augmented matrix is reduced to row reduced form, the elements of (X) are known: 0.0623 0.0254 0.0670 0.1901 0.3627 1.8437 1.3208

X=

The (X) matrix is substituted into the F = (SAT)(X) matrix; F is the column matrix of member end-forces.

By multiplying the two matrices on the right, the frame end forces are solved. 15.02 11.33 32.42 -14.67 -15.02 1.03 -11.32 0 -17.74 -60.03 -45.76

F=

in KN-m