30981 - Fundamentals of Strength of Materials

Academic Year 2022/2023

  • Moduli: Alessandro Marzani (Modulo 1) Antonio Palermo (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Building Engineering (cod. 9199)

Learning outcomes

This course provides the fundamentals of Strength of Materials ad Structural Analysis. Traction vector, stress and strain tensors, equilibrium condition, constitutive laws, statically determinate and indeterminate structures, and cross-sectional properties are introduced.

Course contents

1. Beam Theory. Axial Force, Bending, Shear, and Torsion

2. Symmetry properties of structures

3. Structural analysis: statically determinate and indeterminate structures

4. Yielding surface and safety criteria

5. Stability: Euler approach

Readings/Bibliography

  • PASCALE, Lezioni di scienza delle costruzioni, Voll. 1 e 2, Esculapio - Progetto Leonardo, Bologna.
  • VIOLA, Esercitazioni di scienza delle costruzioni, Voll. 1 e 2, Pitagora, Bologna.
  • PASCALE, Scienza delle costruzioni: esercizi d'esame svolti, Esculapio - Progetto Leonardo, Bologna.

Teaching methods

The course content will be entirely covered by the lectures. The course consists in lectures and on sessions devoted to exercises, which will cover the practical aspects of the lectures. The instructors will supervise students during the laboratory activities.

Assessment methods

The exam does not refer to this teaching module, but to the integrated course of Mechanics of solids and structures T.

The exam consists in a single session and includes one written exercise (solution of a structure or study of a section) and questions on every part of the theory and its applications.

Teaching tools

The teaching tools are graphic table, projector and PC.

Office hours

See the website of Alessandro Marzani

See the website of Antonio Palermo