SCIENZA DELLE COSTRUZIONI

To show the structural response and the preliminary design of structures and structural components of architectural systems under stati forces.

• Analyze and design structural members subjected to tension, compression, torsion, bending and combined stresses using the fundamental concepts of stress, strain and elastic behavior of materials.
• Utilize appropriate materials in design considering engineering properties, sustainability, cost and weight.
• Perform engineering work in accordance with ethical and economic constraints related to the design of structures.

Classroom Lectures, homework middle and finale exams.

If blended teaching should be required, all the necessary measures will be introduced

Introduction-Concept of Stress: Equilibrium of deformable body, average normal and shear stress, bearing stress, allowable stress, factor of safety, deformation-

Stress and Strain - Axial Loading: Normal and shear strain, the tension test, Hooke's law, Poisson's ratio, elastic deformation of axially loaded members, principle of superposition, statically           indeterminate axially loaded member,thermal stress.

Pure Bending: Shear and moment diagrams, the flexure formula, eccentric axial loading, un-symmetric bending.

Shearing Stress in Beams and Thin-Walled Members: The shear formula, shear stresses in beams, shear flow in built-up members.

Torsion​: The torsion formulas.

Transformation of Stress and Strain: Mohr's circle, failure criteria, state of stress caused by combined loading

Deflection of Beams:The elastic curve, slope and displacement by integration method, Mohr analogy.

F. Beer, E. Russell Johnston Jr., J. T. DeWolf, D.F. Mazurek: “Mechanics of Materials" , McGraw Hill Education

R.C. Hibbeler: “Mechanics of Materials", Pearson.

the exam is based on a written test where the student is asked to solve some practical problems an to answer some question on the theoretical content of the course. 

solve a statically undetermined structures, design a cross-seciotn of the beam, strenght of material