Università Roma Tre

Theory of Structures is a course whose aim is to provide fundamental knowledge concerning the mono- and bi-dimensional models that find their typical applications in Civil Engineering, so as to allow their consciuos use in common engineering practice. This course is part of the master's degree program in "Civil Engineering for Protection from Natural Risks", whose objective is to train civil engineers with high professional qualifications for the protection from hydrogeological and from seismic risks. Within the framework of this course, the course aims to provide an in-depth knowledge of 1) mono- and bi-dimensional structural models; 2) of some numerical techniques for structural computation. At the end of the course students will be able to: 1) know how to choose the correct model to evaluate the response of a real structure; 2) use the chose model to evaluate the response of the structure, both analytically and numerically.