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Costruzioni Marittime
Marine Constructions
Alessandro Mancinelli

Seat Ingegneria
A.A. 2016/2017
Credits 9
Hours 72
Period II
Language ENG

Prerequisites
notions of the bachelor degree.

Learning outcomes
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
The course allows the students to acquire the basic engineering knowledge of the Maritime construction inshore and offshore structures. The course face to the specific knowledge of the maritime environment. Design variables (waves and current) are defined in a probabilistic way. Along with the previous teaching the course provides to integrate the advanced knowledge useful for the design.
CAPACITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
To the aim of facing advanced applicative themes and technological processes, the student will have to acquire capabilities of understanding the problems and to reconstruct the waves characteristics. The student will be also able to make the more suitable choice in terms of design of a civil work in the environment and to prevent natural risk.
TRANSVERSAL SKILLS:
The design of a Maritime Engineering work will be carried out in group so allowing the student to acquire the capabilities to cooperate in a team and promoting his skills to face the typical design activity issues.

Program
Wind waves, tides, tsunami. Wave statistics small-amplitude water wave theory formulation and solution. Stationary and progressive waves. Linear and nonlinear wave theory. Energy propagation in progressive waves. Wave refraction and diffraction. Harbours. Design of rubblemound breakwaters and vertical structures. Typologies offshore structures and pipelines.

Development of the examination
LEARNING EVALUATION METHODS
The exam consists in an oral test and in the discussion of the exercise work that the candidate presents for the exam. The oral test consists in some questions requested to the candidate about the topics of the course. The exercise work consists in resolving some applying practices about the topics of the course, proposed during the lessons and individually carried out by the candidate.

LEARNING EVALUATION CRITERIA
The positive result of the exam is proved if the candidate shows, by means of the previously described tests, to have well understood the topics proposed during the lessons and to be able to apply, autonomously and correctly, the tipycal methods, the models and the procedures of the maritime engineering.

LEARNING MEASUREMENT CRITERIA
Assignment of the final grade in thirtiethes.

FINAL MARK ALLOCATION CRITERIA
If the candidate obtains at least the pass grade for both the oral test and the exercise work and in describing the applyied methods, he reaches a positive final evaluation. Maximum evaluation is reached when the candidate shows a deep and complete knowledge of the topics of the course. The praise is reserved to those candidates that carry out oral test and exercise work exactly and completely and that distinguish themselves for them special excellence both for the oral presentation and for the editing of their exercise work.

Recommended reading
Goda Y., “Random Seas and Design of Maritime Structures“, University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1985. Dean R.G., Dalrymple R.A., “Water wave mechanism for engineers and scientists“, World Scientific Publishing Co. Ote. Ltd., Singapore, 1991. Matteotti G., “Lineamenti di Costruzioni marittime“, Servizi Grafici Editoriali, Padova, 1995. Notes of the course lessons.

Courses

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