/civil/taxonomy/term/160/all en /civil/undergrad/areas/structural <p><a href="#Description">Description</a> | <a href="#Recommended courses">Recommended courses</a></p> <p>聽</p> <h2><b><a name="Description" id="Description"></a>Description</b></h2> <p>Structural engineers are concerned with the conception, analysis, design and construction of components or assemblies to resist loads arising from internal and external forces. Solid mechanics is the study of the distribution of stresses that a given load produces when applied to a solid element, and the calculation of the resulting strains, given the characteristics of the materials that make up that element.</p> Fri, 13 May 2011 17:34:31 +0000 franca.della-rovere@平特五不中.Ca 82 at /civil