Università Roma Tre

The course of “Theory and design of Bridges” is part of the master's degree program in Civil Engineering for Natural Risk Mitigation, which aims to train a civil engineer with high professional qualifications concerning the hydrogeological and seismic risk mitigation.

As part of the Master degree program, the course of Theory and design of Bridges aims to provide students with the basic knowledge and analysis tools necessary to deal with the design of simple road and railway small/medium span bridges (box-girder and I-girder), both with prestressed concrete and steel-concrete composite decks. The design criteria, the currently available analysis and constructional methods will be analyzed.

At the end of the course, students will acquire the necessary skills to 1) design the main elements (r.c. slab, deck girders, piers, abutments and foundations) of small/medium span bridges, 2) analyze their structural behavior using simplified and refined models (F.E.M.), even in the presence of rheological behaviors and non-linear phenomena, 3) apply to the main elements of a bridge the design and the assessment methods prescribed by the Italian Code and the Eurocodes, both in ultimate (SLU) and serviceability (SLE) conditions, as well as in presence of exceptional loads such an earthquake, 3) carry out professional structural drawings.