29919 - Mechanical Behaviour of Materials T

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Docente: Piero Morelli
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ING-IND/14
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Energy Engineering (cod. 0924)

Learning outcomes

Basis of solid mechanics and strength of materials, applied to the problems of industrial engineering. Analysis of stress and strain for simple structures or components of industrial interest.

Course contents

Definition of strain and stress. Axial, torsional and bending loads. Axial buckling. Analysis and design of elastic beam systems against bending. Shear, tangential stresses in thin walled components. Strain and stress transformations, Mohr's circles. Principal stresses and definition of strength criteria. Equation of the elastic line. Composite bending. Energy methods. Elements of fatigue of metals and fracture mechanics.

Readings/Bibliography

Suggested readings

F. Cesari, V. Dal Re, Esercizi di Meccanica delle Strutture. McGraw-Hill.
P. Davoli, A. Bernasconi, M. Filippini, S. Foletti, Comportamento meccanico dei materiali. McGraw-Hill.
S. Timoshenko, Strength of materials. McGraw-Hill.
F.P. Beer, E.R. Johnston, J.T. DeWolf, Meccanica dei solidi. McGraw-Hill.
G. Di Caprio, Gli acciai inossidabili. Hoepli I.
Crivelli Visconti, G. Caprino, A. Langella, Materiali compositi. Hoepli.
G. Gozzelino, Materie plastiche. Hoepli.
G. Ballio, C. Bernuzzi, Progettare costruzioni in acciaio. Hoepli. 
V. Féodossiev, Résistance des materiaux. MIR.
O. Belluzzi, Scienza delle costruzioni, vol. 1. Zanichelli.

Teaching methods

Class lessons and practices

Assessment methods

Written and oral examination

Teaching tools

Application of the symbolic and free calculus system "maxima", currently available in the internet

Links to further information

http://diem1.ing.unibo.it/personale/morelli/

Office hours

See the website of Piero Morelli