30979 - Statics

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Docente: Giovanni Pascale
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ICAR/08
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Giovanni Pascale (Modulo 1) Alessandro Marzani (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Building Engineering (cod. 0921)

Course contents

1          STATICS AND KYNEMATICS OF RIGID SYSTEMS

Rigid body. Rigid systems. Constraints. Static and kinematic analysis. Statically determined structures. Graphical and analytical solution methods. Principle of Virtual Works for rigid systems. Beam model and internal forces. Truss structures. Gerber beams.

2          CROSS SECTION GEOMETRY PROPERTIES

Centroid. First and second order moments. Axis rotations. Mohr's graphical method.

3            ELEMENTS OF SOLIDS MECHANICS

Volume and surface forces. Rigid body equilibrium. Concept of stress and stress tensor. Principal stresses and directions. Mohr's circles. Equilibrium equations. Displacement, deformation and strain. Strain tensor and physical meaning. Principal strains and directions. Compatibility equations. Elastic behavior and strain energy. Linear elasticity. Isotropy. Hooke's laws. The linear elastic equilibrium problem. Energy theorems.

4          MATERIALS AND EXPERIMENTAL METHODS

Behavior of materials. Testing of ductile and brittle materials. Mechanical properties and characterisation of steel, concrete, masonry and wood. Destructive and non-destructive tests.

5          STRUCTURAL SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY

Properties of diagrams of internal forces and dosplacements.

Readings/Bibliography

Libri di testo

·            PASCALE, Lezioni di scienza delle costruzioni, Voll. 1 e 2, Esculapio - Progetto Leonardo, Bologna.

·            VIOLA, Esercitazioni di scienza delle costruzioni, Voll. 1 e 2, Pitagora, Bologna.

·            PASCALE, Scienza delle costruzioni: esercizi d'esame svolti, Esculapio - Progetto Leonardo, Bologna.

Altri testi di riferimento

·            BEER, JOHNSTON, Scienza delle costruzioni, Mc Graw Hill, Milano.

·            DI TOMMASO, Fondamenti di scienza delle costruzioni, Patron, Bologna.

·            CARPINTERI, Scienza delle costruzioni, Pitagora, Bologna (con esercizi).

·            BELLUZZI, Scienza delle costruzioni, Zanichelli, Bologna.

Office hours

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