Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

The course provides the basics for design of structural elements mainly referring to serviceability limit states (SLS). In particular, reinforced concrete, steel and timber structures will be considered.
Linear elements, as beams and columns, will be considered as well as bidimensional structures as thin plates and deep beams.
The lectures concern the following topics:
Structural analysis of statically redundant structures: the force method and the displacement method.
Beams on Winkler soil.
Loads applied to structures: permanent, variable and accidental loads.
Structural materials: reinforced concrete, steel and wood.
Basics of conceptual design.
Design of steel structures under service conditions: standard and assembled beams and columns. Instability and buckling.
Design of timber structures under service conditions.
Design of concrete structures under service conditions: axial load, flexure, shear and torsion.
Design of continuous beams, columns and footings.
Moment redistribution, creep and relaxation in reinforced concrete elements.
Basic aspects of Prestressed Concrete Structures.
Elastic theory of thin plates.
Elastic theory of deep beams.
Basic aspects on buckling of bi-dimensional elements under membrane loads