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TECNICA DELLE COSTRUZIONI E LABORATORIO
Module TECNICA DELLE COSTRUZIONI IN ACCIAIO E LABORATORIO

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: EDOARDO MICHELE MARINO

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course of Design steel construction and Laboratory analyses the behaviour of steel structural members and their connections, providing the knowledge needed for their design. In particular, the course presents the basic problems of structural design in a general way and analyzes the limit states of the individual structural elements and steel connections, which define the situations not to be overcome in order to guarantee the structure a good operating behavior and a level adequate security. The theoretical contents are always accompanied by clear operational indications and the analysis of concrete examples. Ample space is given to the legislation in force in Italy and in Europe. At the end of the course the student will be able to design a building with a steel structure with the exclusion of anti-seismic structures. The student will also acquire the skills necessary for the use of simple structural calculation software.

Course Structure

All the subjects of the course will be illustrated by the teacher during classes. Numerical examples and a sample structural design will be developed to show the practical application of the theoretical subjects. Learning of the students will be monitored over the course by: (1) development of the design of a steel structure and (2) weekly meeting with the teacher.

Required Prerequisites

Knowledge of the behaviour of linear elastic members: analysis of statically determined and statically undetermined structural schemes, evaluation of internal forces and analysis of the stress fields of the cross-section.

Attendance of Lessons

Mandatory.

Detailed Course Content

Methods for verification of structures: from allowable stresses to limit states. Modelling in elastic and inelastic range of behaviour of steel, resisting mechanisms of steel structural members and loads. Ultimate limit states of steel members: tension, compression, bending moment, bending and axial force, shear, torsion. Serviceability limit state of steel members: deflection control. Design of a building with steel structure.

Textbook Information

Verifica e progetto di aste in acciaio. Aurelio Ghersi, Edoardo M. Marino, Pier Paolo Rossi, Francesca Barbagallo, Dario Flaccovio Editore. (in Italian)

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1Verification and design of steel structural members.

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The student will be evaluated based on: design of a steel structure developed during the semester, written tests during the semester and oral examination at the end of the first semester limited to the contents of this semester. The student that successfully passes the examination at the end of the first semester will be allowed to take the final examination of the course limited to the contents explained in the second semester.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

All the topics of the course are asked with same frequency. The questions can concern theoretical aspects or they can be asked in the form of numerical exercises to be solved. As examples, possible ways of formulating the questions are reported in the following:

1. Provided the description of a structure, the student must illustrate its modeling and the methods of analysis for the evaluation of the response

2. Given a simple structure or a structural member, the student must determine the load that leads it to the attainement of a limit state

3. Once a structural problem has been indicated, the student must illustrate the physical phenomenon and/or the theoretical formulation and/or the related regulatory requirements

4. Even during the oral exam, the student must be able to set up and develop practical applications on the design/verification of the structural types analysed in the course