Università Roma Tre

1. BASIC CONCEPTS FOR STRUCTURAL DESIGN
• methods and structural requirements
• structural safety: the problem of structural safety, randomness and uncertainty in structural problems, approaches for safety assessment;
• limit states design: objective of structural design, tools, service life, ultimate and serviceability limit states, design situations, basic variables (geometric data, material properties, actions and loads), classification of actions, design values of actions, combination of actions
• loads on structures: permanent loads, variable loads, snow load, wind action, distribution of actions, transfer of actions
2. STEEL STRUCTURES
• material: material properties, classification of structural steel, qualification tests, durability and protection, fire resistance, strength criteria, mechanical models.
• strength, deformability and stability: production processes and steel products, local and global instability, classification of cross sections, design resistance
• members in tension and compression: typical schemes, design and verification at the ultimate limit state (ULS)
• members with bending, shear and axial force: typical schemes, design and verification at the serviceability limit state (SLS) and the ultimate limit state (ULS)
• SLS for buildings: vertical and horizontal deflections, dynamic effects
3. REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES
• material (concrete and steel reinforcement): classification and properties of concrete, shrinkage and viscosity, classification and properties of reinforcing steel, confinement effects, steel-concrete bond, qualification tests, constitutive bond models
• bending behavior: phase 1: uncracked, phase 2: elastic cracking, phase 3: plastic cracking, analysis of section response.
• ULS for bending with or without axial force: section analysis in phase 1, 2, 3; failure regions, solving equations, design and assessment of RC members;
• ULS for shear: behavior analysis of beams without transverse reinforcement in phases 1, 2, 3 and resisting mechanisms; behavior of beams with transverse reinforcement and Mörsch truss analogy, design and verification of elements subjected to shear
• SLS (crack and stress control): SLS for reinforced concrete, evolution of cracking, crack control, tensile state verification.

• Teoria e Tecnica delle Costruzioni Civili (Renato Giannini, 2011, Ed. CittàStudi)
• D.M. 17.01.2018: Aggiornamento Norme Tecniche per le Costruzioni [G.U. 20.02.2018 n. 42]
• Circolare 21.01.2019 n. 7: Istruzioni per l’applicazione dell’aggiornamento delle «Norme Tecniche per le Costruzioni» di cui al D.M. 17.01.2018 [G.U. 11.02.2019 n. 35 – S.O. n. 5]
• Course handouts, exercises and previous year's exam tasks are available on the TEAMS channel, freely accessible to students.

1. BASIC CONCEPTS FOR STRUCTURAL DESIGN
• methods and structural requirements
• structural safety: the problem of structural safety, randomness and uncertainty in structural problems, approaches for safety assessment;
• limit states design: objective of structural design, tools, service life, ultimate and serviceability limit states, design situations, basic variables (geometric data, material properties, actions and loads), classification of actions, design values of actions, combination of actions
• loads on structures: permanent loads, variable loads, snow load, wind action, distribution of actions, transfer of actions
2. STEEL STRUCTURES
• material: material properties, classification of structural steel, qualification tests, durability and protection, fire resistance, strength criteria, mechanical models.
• strength, deformability and stability: production processes and steel products, local and global instability, classification of cross sections, design resistance
• members in tension and compression: typical schemes, design and verification at the ultimate limit state (ULS)
• members with bending, shear and axial force: typical schemes, design and verification at the serviceability limit state (SLS) and the ultimate limit state (ULS)
• SLS for buildings: vertical and horizontal deflections, dynamic effects
3. REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES
• material (concrete and steel reinforcement): classification and properties of concrete, shrinkage and viscosity, classification and properties of reinforcing steel, confinement effects, steel-concrete bond, qualification tests, constitutive bond models
• bending behavior: phase 1: uncracked, phase 2: elastic cracking, phase 3: plastic cracking, analysis of section response.
• ULS for bending with or without axial force: section analysis in phase 1, 2, 3; failure regions, solving equations, design and assessment of RC members;
• ULS for shear: behavior analysis of beams without transverse reinforcement in phases 1, 2, 3 and resisting mechanisms; behavior of beams with transverse reinforcement and Mörsch truss analogy, design and verification of elements subjected to shear
• SLS (crack and stress control): SLS for reinforced concrete, evolution of cracking, crack control, tensile state verification.

• Teoria e Tecnica delle Costruzioni Civili (Renato Giannini, 2011, Ed. CittàStudi)
• D.M. 17.01.2018: Aggiornamento Norme Tecniche per le Costruzioni [G.U. 20.02.2018 n. 42]
• Circolare 21.01.2019 n. 7: Istruzioni per l’applicazione dell’aggiornamento delle «Norme Tecniche per le Costruzioni» di cui al D.M. 17.01.2018 [G.U. 11.02.2019 n. 35 – S.O. n. 5]
• Course handouts, exercises and previous year's exam tasks are available on the TEAMS channel, freely accessible to students.