34310 - Elements of Machines T

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Docente: Piero Morelli
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ING-IND/14
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mechanical Engineering (cod. 0927)

Course contents

Introduction to structural analysis. Review of centroids and moments of inertia. Stress and strain in a point of a body. Quasi static tensile test. Strength criteria. Introduction to the theory of structural analysis of beams. Review on planar and spatial constraints. Isostatic and hyperstatic structures. Constraint reactions for isostatic systems. Internal actions diagrams. Stress analysis of tensile, bending, shear and torsional loadings. Membrane stress in thin shells under pressure. Deflections of beams. Buckling and stability of columns. Exercises of structural analysis of systems of beams. Mechanical behaviour and selection procedure of bearings. Technical drawing of machine elements.

Readings/Bibliography

"Elementi delle Macchine (A.A. 2013 2014)". P. Morelli. Mc Graw Hill (manuale del corso realizzato con la piattaforma Create). In distribuzione presso Pitagora.
"Esercizi di Meccanica delle Strutture - 1 esercizi di base". F. Cesari, V. Dal Re, P. Morelli. Pitagora Editrice Bologna
"Esercizi di Meccanica delle Strutture - 2 applicazioni". F. Cesari, P. Morelli. Pitagora Editrice Bologna

Assessment methods

The examination requires the solution of some exercises of structural analysis, the answer to some theoretical questions and the execution of a technical drawing by hands.

Office hours

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