The course aims to make future engineers and technicians able to size and analyse the behaviour ot a civil engineering structure.
The course includes the following points:
The course includes the following points:
- introduction to external and internal strengths and stress concept
- material properties (steel, concrete, wood and soils), introduction to elastic, elasto-plastic and plastic constitutive laws
- axial forces, plane bending, uniform torsion and shear stresses analysis
- introduction to plastic compression and bending moment
- fundamental theorems of yield criteria and analysis
- structure deflexion analysis by using the unit force theorem
- introduction to buckling phenomena (Euler's beam)
