1. Structural types and structural behaviors.
Residential buildings, industrial, single-storey and multi-storey. Bracing systems (isostatic). Instability problems. Fire resistance. Durability of materials and structures. Maintenance of the structures.
2. Actions on buildings
Permanent and variable loads. Seismic actions and weather. Effects of shrinkage, creep, thermal distortions and constraint displacements.
3. Building Materials
Properties and mechanical properties of steel, wood, concrete and masonry.
4. Isostatic structural elements
Recalls on internal actions and the elastic line.
Beams, columns, footings, foundation beams, slabs, retaining walls, arches, plates, high beams, vaults, trusses.
5. Sizing of the main structural elements: floors, beams and columns of reinforced concrete, steel and wood.