- Docente: Erasmo Viola
- Credits: 12
- SSD: ICAR/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in
Architecture and Building Engineering (cod. 0940)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Electrical Energy Engineering (cod. 8611)
Learning outcomes
The student should learn the elements of the Mechanics of Solids and Structures related to the hypotheses, formulations and development of linear elastic analysis.
Course contents
Requirements/Prior knowledge
The student who follows this course must know and use the basic concept of Calculus I & II, Geometry, Physics and Rational Mechanics.
All the lessons will be held in Italian. Therefore, fluent spoken Italian is a necessary pre-requisite to follow the course with benefit.
Course Contents
The themes developed during the course are related to:
• Aim, hypotheses and models of the Mechanics of Solids and Structures.
• Variational calculus.
• Strain analysis.
• Stress analysis.
• General relations given by the Principal of Virtual Work.
• The homogenous and isotropic linear elastic body.
• Principles and variational methods applied to the continuum medium and to structures.
• Strength criteria and cross-section verification.
• Problems of the Saint-Venant’s cylinder.
• Theory of isostatic and hyperstatic structures.
• Structural elastic stability: systems with concentrated and distributed elasticity.
Readings/Bibliography
Viola E, Lezioni di Scienza delle Costruzioni, Pitagora, Bologna.
Viola E., Esercitazioni di Scienza delle Costruzioni, Voll. 1, 2, Pitagora, Bologna.
Notes (hardcopied papers) will be only given during lessons.
Teaching methods
The course content will be entirely covered by the lectures. The course includes some laboratory sessions, which will cover the practical aspects of some lectures. The student is guided to solve isostatic and hyperstatic structures, cross-section design and other problems of the Mechanics of Solids and Structures by using the knowledge acquired during classes.
Visits to the Laboratory of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering (LISG) are planned to show students laboratory tests on concrete and steel specimens.
Assessment methods
The exam consists in two parts: a written test and an oral test. The themes of the two parts refer to the program above. The written test is made of 3 exercises, with 3 questions each. This exam requires 40 minutes for each exercise. The test will be evaluated positively when at least one question for each of the three exercises is solved correctly.
The oral test, developed through a written test, and completed with an oral discussion afterwards, is referred to 6 questions of the program of the course. For each question 15/20 minutes are given. For each correct answer, the student gets 5 points as a maximum. The final mark is, usually, the mean value of the marks of the written and the oral tests.
Teaching tools
The teaching tools are overhead projector, projector, PC, blackboard and chalk.
Office hours
See the website of Erasmo Viola