CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES
cod. 13159

Academic year 2010/11
3° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Tecnica delle costruzioni (ICAR/09)
Field
Edilizia e ambiente
Type of training activity
Characterising
120 hours
of face-to-face activities
8 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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Course unit divided into the following partitions:

Integrated course unit module: LABORATORY FOR CONSTRUCTION II

Learning objectives

Basis of structural mechanics and geotecnical engineering to design very simply RC and steel structures.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

The concepts of Statics and Strength of Materials are extended to steel and reinforced concrete structures. A very simple reinforced concrete building is designed according to the Eurocodes.

Full programme

- Structural failures
- Structural conception of RC structures, steel structures, precast buildings, towers, roofs.
- Bracings in steel and concrete structures
- Actions
- Single degree of freedom linear oscillator, spectra, seismic actions
- Structural safety, limit states, characteristic strength
- Buckling of a column
- Design of RC beams and columns
- Design of steel beams and columns
- Welded and bolted joints
- Static behavior of simple masonry buildings

Bibliography

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Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Assessment methods and criteria

WRITTEN TEST: calculation questions
ORAL TEST:Discussion on the written test and the homework
HOMEWORK: Design of a very simple reinforced concrete building

Other information

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