Università Roma Tre

The course provides an overview of some aspects of computational mechanics, able to improve basic knowledge and skill of structural mechanics that architecture students acquired and developed during undergraduate training.
It will give the key items of implementation for a structural analysis, through both theoretical presentations and practices making use of very common commercial software.
Course topics cover a wide variety of applications and mechanical problems, to which in particular the Finite Element Method (FEM) is applicable, according to the following outlines:
1) linear algebra and analysis (just enough);
2) linear elastic analysis of both 1D and 2D structures;
3) modal analysis;
4) theoretical formulation for general problems.