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Other Courses of the Study Programme

Course year: 1

BUILDING PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING - 9 credits - Related/Supplementary
ENGLISH FOR CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING - 3 credits - Student's own choice
ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS - 9 credits - Characterising
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING - 9 credits - Characterising
STRUCTURAL DESIGN - 9 credits - Characterising
STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS AND SEISMOLOGY - 9 credits - Characterising
URBAN PLANNING AND RISK MITIGATION
Attendance grouping
9 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza

Course year: 2

ADVANCED GEOMATICS - 9 credits - Characterising
APPROPRIATE ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESOURCE LIMITED COUNTRIES - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary
ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION - 6 credits - Characterising
DESIGN OF BUILDING SERVICES - 9 credits - Student's own choice
DESIGN OF SEISMIC RESISTANT STRUCTURES - 9 credits - Characterising
ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS MODELLING AND CONTROL
Attendance grouping
9 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
ETHICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY - 3 credits - Student's own choice
FINAL THESIS - 12 credits - Language/Final Examination
HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES - 9 credits - Characterising
MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND SIMULATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT - 6 credits - Student's own choice
REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES - 6 credits - Characterising
REMOTE SENSING
Attendance grouping
9 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
STRUCTURAL REHABILITATION - 6 credits - Characterising
SUMMER SCHOOL - 3 credits - Student's own choice
TRAINING ACTIVITY/INTERNSHIP 6 CREDITS - MASTER LEVEL - 6 credits - Student's own choice
TRAINING ACTIVITY/INTERNSHIP 9 CREDITS - MASTER LEVEL - 9 credits - Student's own choice
WATER AND WASTE TREATMENT PLANT DESIGN - 9 credits - Characterising

STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS AND SEISMOLOGY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016/2017

Academic Year of provision:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE

Disciplinary Sector:

Construction Science

Language:

English

Grouping type:

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

GENNA Francesco Professor

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

108

Hours of individual study:

117

Thorough knowledge of the basics of Solid and Struxtural Mechanics, with special reference to the beam theory.

Educational Goals

Learning the basic concepts of dynamic loading and the response of linear structures to such loads. Learning the basic concepts of engineering seismology.

Content

Linear vibration of structures (response of SDOF systems, response of MDOF systems with orthogonal damping, response spectrum and response spectrum analysis). The Finite Element method. Direct time integration methods. Elements of engineering seismology (basic terms, elements of seismic wave propagation theory, introduction to local amplification effects, magnitude,focal mechanisms,ground motion parameters, elements of seismic hazard analysis).

Extended Syllabus

Introduction - Actions causing structural vibrations. Discretization of mass-distributed systems by the Lumped Mass approach and by the Assumed-Modes method.

Single Degree of Freedom Systems (SDOF) - Undamped oscillator: free vibration, harmonic response. Damped oscillator: free vibration, harmonic response, response to a periodic force.
Impulse response function. Arbitrary forcing function: convolution. Support motion. Experimental techniques to measure the viscous damping ratio. Elastic response spectrum.

Multi Degrees of Freedom Systems (MDOF) - Equations of motion for undamped and damped systems (linear viscous damping). Undamped systems: free vibration, natural frequencies, modal vectors and their properties, modal superposition method. Proportionally damped systems: response to harmonic, periodic and arbitrary forcing functions by the modal superposition method, response spectrum analysis.

The Finite Element method. Direct time integration methods.

Elements of Engineering Seismology - Elements of tectonics, elements of seismic wave propagation theory, introduction to local amplification effects, magnitude, focal mechanisms, ground motion parameters, elements of seismic hazard analysis.

Recommended Bibliography

Chopra Anil K.; Dynamics of Structures: Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering; Prentice Hall; 2011
R.W.Clough, J. Penzien, Dynamics of Structures, Mc Graw-Hill;
Meirovitch Leonard; Fundamentals of Vibrations; Mc Graw-Hill;
Kramer Steven L.; Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering; Prentice Hall; 1996;
Hughes, T. J,, The Finite Element method. Linear static and dynamic Finite Element analysis. Prentice-Hall, 1987.
T. Lay, T.C. Wallace, Modern Global Seismology, Academic Press.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Traditional.

Assessment Methods

The final examination is an oral test, which includes the discussion of a numerical exercise assigned during the course. The written exercise is due within the examination registration deadline.

Assessment:

Final Mark

Programme of Educational Activities

Start date of teaching period:

Monday, February 20, 2017

End date of teaching period:

Friday, June 9, 2017