- Docente: Francesco Tornabene
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ICAR/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mechanical Engineering (cod. 0938)
Learning outcomes
Provide skills for the analysis and design of structures in surface development. In particular, the different theories used to model plates and shells are applied to the resolution of problems of industrial engineering. It emphasizes the importance of the approximations and their influence on the results.
Course contents
Theory of curved structures or shells.
Theory of plates: rectangular and circular.
The composite materials.
The main shell structures.
Free vibration.
Recovery of the stress and strain states.
Finite elements.
Readings/Bibliography
Tornabene F., Meccanica delle Strutture a Guscio in Materiale Composito. Il Metodo Generalizzato di Quadratura Differenziale, Progetto-Leonardo Esculapio Editrice, Bologna, 2012.
Cesari F., Tornabene F., Esercizi di Meccanica delle Strutture. I Materiali Compositi , Pitagora Editrice, Bologna, 2011.
Teaching methods
The course is entirely done during school hours. The lessons are accompanied by exercises in the classroom and in the Laboratory of Computational Mechanics.
Assessment methods
The exam includes an oral examination.
Teaching tools
The tools to support teaching in the classroom are: the overhead projector and the projector.
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Francesco Tornabene