How important is it to study methods of indeterminate beam analysis for the Civil PE exam? I'm taking the structural PM portion.
I'm studying mostly from Lindeburg's CERM book and chapter 47 covers this material. Are there really problems on the test that require you to use the moment distribution method or create a stiffness matrix? It just seems way too time consuming to do on the test. I'm guessing most of what I need I can get from the AISC beam tables.
I covered this stuff in college so I'm familiar with it. I only have so much time to study so I'm considering skimming the practice problems in this section.
I'm studying mostly from Lindeburg's CERM book and chapter 47 covers this material. Are there really problems on the test that require you to use the moment distribution method or create a stiffness matrix? It just seems way too time consuming to do on the test. I'm guessing most of what I need I can get from the AISC beam tables.
I covered this stuff in college so I'm familiar with it. I only have so much time to study so I'm considering skimming the practice problems in this section.