72802 - Bridge Design M

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Docente: Maurizio Merli
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ICAR/09
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Civil Engineering (cod. 0930)

Course contents

- Criteria of bridges classification; basic static arguments; historical excursus of bridges construction

- Italian rules for brige design; creep models

- Influence lines and orthotropic plates theory

- R.C. slabs and orthtotropic decks

- Criteria of point loads distribution (Courbon-Albenga, Massonet,Folded plate theory)

- Design criteria for beams, girders, box girders, trusses

- Static of arch bridges and models for elastic theory

- Design of bridges in seismic zones

 The lections are integrated by exercitations about design of superstructure details.

Office hours

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