B6478 - MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The course will cover the main concepts of structural life-cycle safety assessment for the management and maintenance of large and complex structures. Students will learn how to evaluate the safety of deteriorating structures; integrating analytical models, numerical simulations and experimental methods, with focus on risk mitigation and robustness»

Contenuti

The course aims at providing an overview of the approaches for the risk evaluation and structural assessment of existing infrastructures, such as bridges and large span structures.

1. Conceptual design principles for large infrastructures including bridges and large-span structures (20 h)
   • Bridges(16 h)
   • Tall Buildings (4 h)
2. Structural requirements for existing structures in terms of serviceability, ultimate and extreme conditions. Performances, safety issues, durability, robustness and resilience (20 ore)
   • Knowledge Path (4 h)
   • Other topics (16 h)
3. Structural diagnostics and monitoring of existing infrastructures (8 h)

Testi/Bibliografia

-D. Billington, The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural En.gineering

- E. Torroja, “La concezione strutturale”, UTET
- J. Heyman, 1998, “Structural analysis. A historical approach”, Cambridge University Press

-Der Kiureghian, A. (2022). Structural and system reliability. Cambridge University Press.

-Melchers, R. E., & Beck, A. T. (2018). Structural reliability analysis and prediction. John wiley & sons.

Metodi didattici

In regular classes, problems concerning the modelling and the design principles of building structures are discussed. Structural solutions and details will be shown and discussed. Guidelines for different structural problems reported in national and international codes will be considered. Some classes will be devoted to solve simple structural systems using simplified analytical methods and FE software.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Final mark will be given according to a series of written tests (typically homeworks, and a final term) and an oral examination. The oral examination is for the students that would like to improve the grade of the written part. During the oral will be verified the personal preparation of the student and his knowledge on the main theoretical aspects of the course.

They aim to establish the knowledge and skills achieved by the student as well as to evaluate his/her technical language with reference to the topics discussed. A positive exam requires demonstration of adequate reasoning capacities and problem solving in relation to the key-concepts discussed in the course. The student should know and understand all basic theoretical concepts illustrated in the lectures.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Blackboard, power-point presentations uploaded on Virtuale web-site

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Marco Savoia

Consulta il sito web di Michele Palermo