Learn by doing
Tutorials on Home teach on the real workspace, not on screenshots. A card explains each step and points at the real control; the step advances when you do it. Do it for me completes any step for you.
Each tutorial ends by comparing your results with the printed answer of a textbook problem. When you finish, you can keep the study.
The ten tutorials
Start with 2D truss and Space truss; the rest teach one module each.
- 2D truss: trace by eye, make the nodes precise, add supports and a force, and end on the method of joints.
- Space truss: create the nodes, join them node to node, add pins and a load, and read the axial forces.
- Beam: supports, a distributed and a point load, and the shear and moment diagrams.
- Deflection of a beam: a cantilever in Linear elastic, and how far its tip moves and turns.
- Frame: an inverted L as one rigid body and its free-body diagram.
- Load cases and combinations: dead and live loads and the combination 1.2D + 1.6L.
- Self-weight: what a plate girder's own weight adds to the moment.
- Unknown loads: the largest load a truss can carry.
- Frames with pins: two bodies, a two-force member and the pin forces.
- Space frame: welded members on fixed supports, and the force and couples at a fixed end.