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Tecnica delle Costruzioni
Structural Engineering
Luigino Dezi

Seat Ingegneria
A.A. 2015/2016
Credits 9
Hours 72
Period I
Language ENG

Prerequisites
Material covered in Statics and Structural Mechanics is considered as assumed knowledge.

Learning outcomes
The course provides the students with theoretical and practical tools for calculation, design and testing of reinforced concrete structures by means of lectures and designing exercises.

Program
Structural design criteria: design of structural elements in reinforced concrete in accordance with strength and serviceability limit states; thin-walled elements. Deep beams. Punching, Instability of beam-column reinforced concrete element. Framed buildings: modelling, assumptions and analysis by means of the displacement method of plane frames with fixed and hinged joints; matrix method for the analysis of spatial frames. Foundations: design of surface foundations, strip footings, footing grids, slabs, pile caps, beam on elastic foundation: governing equilibrium equations and relevant boundary conditions; Winkler beam. Thin-walled theory: Kirchhoff plate; governing equilibrium equations and relevant boundary conditions; applications on balconies and retaining walls. Shrinkage and creep of concrete. Prestressed concrete structures: prestressing tecniques, stress losses, tendon layers. Steel-cpncrete composite structures: elastic and plastic strength limit state, shear connection design, shrinkage and creep effects. Retaining walls: typologies, design and analysis methods. Tutorials: design of a reinforced concrete frame building.

Development of the examination
LEARNING EVALUATION METHODS
The evalulation of student learning is based on three assessments: - the devopment of a design project of a reinforced concrete building; - a written test concerning the analysis and design of a reinforced concrete frame; - an oral exam consisting in a discussion of the design project and in some theoretical questions on the topics covered during the course. To access the oral exam the student is required to have completed the project and have obtained a sufficient evaluation in the written test.

LEARNING EVALUATION CRITERIA
Through the design project, the written test and the oral exam the student must demonstrate to have learned the topics covered during the course, such as analysis and design methods for structure typologies studied in the course.

LEARNING MEASUREMENT CRITERIA
The evaluation of each assessment is expressed in thirtieths.

FINAL MARK ALLOCATION CRITERIA
The student is expected to pass every assessments. The final mark of the course will be calculated after the oral exam as the average of the marks received for these three assessments. The 'lode' will be awarded to students who, having correctly completed the three assessments, show an outstanding understanding in the subject.

Recommended reading
Radogna E.F., Tecnica delle Costruzioni. Costruzioni composte acciaio calcestruzzo – c.a. – c.a.p., Ed. Masson, Milano, 1996. (in Italian) Giangreco E., Teoria e Tecnica delle Costruzioni, Vol. I, Ed. Liguori, Napoli. (in Italian) Toniolo G., Cemento Arm

Courses

• Ingegneria Civile (Corso di Laurea Magistrale (DM 270/04))