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CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES V.O.
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Steel and reinforced concrete structures is a course included in the second year of the first level degree in civil engineering. The course aims at providing the students with the fundamental knowledge and tools to understand the behaviour of steel and reinforced concrete structures, assess their safety level with respect to Ultimate and Serviceability Limit States, and design simple structural assemblies.
At the end of the course, the students will be able to: 1) assess the safety level of structures according to the Limit State Method, using the format and with reference to the performance target levels recommended by Italian building code and Eurocodes; 2) identify the load patterns to assume in calculations and checks; 3) design and assess the performance of steel and reinforced concrete structures including connections and structural details, with specific respect to resistance ultimate limit states, and 4) produce design drawings.
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DE SANTIS STEFANO
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1. Safety of structures and Limit States approach
2. Actions on structures and their combinations
3. Steel structures
- Mechanical properties of steel
- Design of steel members under tensile loading
- Design of steel members under bending and shear
- Design of steel members under compression and bending (buckling)
- Design of bolted and welded joints
- Trusses
4. Reinforced concrete (r.c.) structures
- Mechanical properties of steel and concrete
- Design of r.c. beams under bending and shear
- Design of r.c. columns under compression and bending
- Design and representation of steel rebars and details
( reference books)
Main books and building codes:
- Giannini R, Teoria e Tecnica delle Costruzioni Civili, CittàStudi, 2011
- Norme tecniche per le costruzioni, DM 14/01/2008 – Cap 1, 2, 3, 4, 11
- Circolare sulle Nuove norme tecniche per le costruzioni di cui al DM 14/01/2008 (GU n.47 26/02/2009)
Other books:
- AICAP, Dettagli Costruttivi di Strutture in Calcestruzzo Armato, 2011
- AICAP, Costruzioni in Calcestruzzo, Costruzioni composte acciaio-calcestruzzo, Commentario alle Norme -Tecniche per le Costruzioni D.M. 14/1/2008, 2011.
- Mezzina M. Fondamenti di tecnica delle costruzioni. Cittàstudi, 2013
- Cosenza E, Manfredi G, Pecce M. Strutture in Cemento Armato. Basi della progettazione. Hoepli, 2015.
- Bernuzzi C. Progetto e verifica delle strutture in acciaio. Hoepli, 2011.
Other standards:
- Eurocode 2: Design of concrete structures – Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings (prEN 1992-1-1) December 2003 – Italian Annex
- Consiglio Superiore dei Lavori Pubblici, Servizio Tecnico Centrale. Linee guida per la messa in opera del calcestruzzo strutturale. Settembre 2017
- Consiglio Superiore dei Lavori Pubblici, Servizio Tecnico Centrale. Linee guida per la valutazione delle caratteristiche meccaniche del calcestruzzo indurito mediante prove non distruttive. Settembre 2017
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VCASLU (free software for the analysis of reinforced concrete sections under ocmpression and bending)
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HYDRAULIC INFRASTRUCTURES
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The main scope of this course is to provide students with the basic knowledge and develop the fundamental skills of (i) applied hydrology for water resources and flood risk management, and (ii) water supply systems design.
Hydraulic Infrastructures belongs to the three-year degree in Civil Engineering, whose aim is to prepare students in civil engineering by providing tools for the design, construction, maintenance and management of civil structures and infrastructures, such as buildings, bridges, tunnels, transport systems, hydraulic works and land protection.
Within such framework, Hydraulic Infrastructures aims at providing students with the basic knowledge and understanding about 1) water cycle; 2) fundamental methods and models, including statistical approaches, for hydrologic analysis for water resources and flood risk management; 3) hydraulic structures for freshwater withdrawal, storage and supply, mainly for domestic use; 4) basic criteria for water supply infrastructure design; 5) computational tools for hydrologic analysis and infrastructure design.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to 1) perform statistical analysis of hydrologic data; 2) estimate the hydrological load acting on the structures (design quantities); 3) identify the most appropriate infrastructure solution for water supply; 4) perform a first estimate of structure dimensions.
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VOLPI ELENA
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The course is made of two parts. The first part provides the students with the main notions of applied hydrology for water management and flood risk management; the second is dedicated to the design of urban water supply and sewer systems.
Part 1 – Hydrology
1.1) Rainfall: rainfall genesis, rainfall measurements, rainfall regimes, intense rainfall, rainfall amount at the catchment scale.
1.2) Evapotranspiration: phenomenology and measures.
1.3) Catchment and hydrogeological basin definitions: water balance.
1.4) Groundwater hydrology: unsaturated zone, aquifers and spring classification.
1.5) Surface water storage: lakes.
1.6) Surface water flow: flow discharge measurements, river regimes, probabilistic models.
1.7) Hydrologic losses and runoff generation mechanisms.
1.8) Rainfall-runoff models: lumped linear models, kinematic model.
Parte 2 – Water supply and sewer systems
2.1) Water use, sustainable water use.
2.2) Water-intake hydraulic structures for surface water.
2.3) Artificial lakes and dams.
2.4) Water transport, open channel flow.
2.5) Water transport, aqueducts, network configurations, manufactures, pumping stations.
2.6) Urban reservoirs.
2.7) Sewer systems.
( reference books)
(in Italian)
Calenda, G. (2016). Infrastrutture Idrauliche. Vol. 1 – Idrologia e Risorsa Idrica, Edizioni Efesto, Roma.
Calenda, G. Introduzione alla statistica (dispense).
Calenda, G. Fognature (dispense).
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INTEGRATED DESIGN FOR VARIOUS INFRASTRUCTURES
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Integrated Design For Road Infrastructures is a course of the Degree in Civil Engineering. This degree aims at providing tools for the design, construction, maintenance and management of civil structures and infrastructures, such as buildings, bridges, tunnels, transport systems, hydraulic works and land protection.
The course is aimed at providing students with the rules for the design of a road, according several issues such as the respect of national technical laws, the study of the system of constraints, and the optimization of the design choices including the environmental point of view. Different levels of road design are illustrated and discussed, moreover a project of a rural road is developed during the course also using a roadway design software.
At the end of the course the students will be able to: 1) use the software and applications to design and to draw a road project; 2) solve the problems of choices optimization in different design phases; 3) quantify the parametric costs for road constructions; 4) discuss to a road project showing the best technical and economical solution.
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D'AMICO FABRIZIO
( syllabus)
The course will lead to an understanding of the fundamental principles governing the design of road engineering projects including technical and environmental constraints by carrying out the calculations and producing the required drawings of the different geometrical design of the road project. Moreover, the course covers the required knowledge for the full design of all required geometrical characteristics of a road project including horizontal layout, vertical layout, and speed diagram. Theoretical information will be provided on cross sections, section areas calculations, earthwork volume diagrams and volume calculations, and super elevation diagrams.
( reference books)
A. Benedetto “Strade Ferrovie Aeroporti” - Utet editore;
Italian road design regulations and Public procurement code;
Handouts and slides provided by the professor.
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TRANSPORT SYSTEMS DESIGN
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Transport Systems Design is a course of the Transportation sector, given within the three years of the Degree in Civil Engineering. This degree aims at providing tools for the design, construction, maintenance and management of civil structures and infrastructures, such as buildings, bridges, tunnels, transport systems, hydraulic works and land protection.
As part of the three-year degree, the course of Transport Systems Design provides the fundamental skills for the design of a Transport System and its economic analysis.
Students will get the necessary skills: 1) to define the models of mobility demand, transport supply and vehicular flows; 2) to dimension a road infrastructure; 3) to assess the levels of service offered by the transport system; 4) to identify possible design solutions in order to solve the emerged problems; 5) to verify the operational of the supply/demand system in the reference and project conditions; 6) to carry out the evaluation of the solutions that can be adopted through the cost benefit analysis.
At the end of the course, the students will be able to: 1) use theory and manual elements to evaluate the individual elements of the transport system; 2) use commercial software to simulate the operational of the supply/demand system; 3) operationally carrying out a real case study; 4) evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of the project.
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MANNINI LIVIA
( syllabus)
Transport system supply, networks, graphs and volume-delay functions. Level of service (LOS). Transport demand models, origin-destination matrix, sample survey methods. Traffic assignment model. Benefits-costs analysis. The course is characterized by the adoption of a software for the macro simulation of the transport systems.
Specifically, the lectures concern:
• Transport systems
• Demand and supply
• Design of infrastructures
• Highway Capacity Manual – Exercises
• Transport supply model: graph construction
• Four steps demand model
• Emission model: origin/destination model
• Distributional model: uniform factor model, average factor model, Detroit model, gravitational model
• Route choice model
• Algorithms to compute the minimum path: Bellman teorem and Dijkstra model
• Assignment model
• Benefit/cost analysis
• Exercises with Excel and EMME software
• Project with Excel and EMME software
( reference books)
Lecture notes provided by the professor
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APPLIED GEOLOGY
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IT PRESENTS AN OVERVIEW OF EARTH SCIENCES, ILLUSTRATING THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF GEOLOGY: THE FORM, MATERIALS, INTERNAL DYNAMICS, GEOLOGICAL CYCLES. IT PROVIDES THE BASIC TOOLS FOR READING AND INTERPRETATION OF GEOLOGICAL MAPS AT DIFFERENT SCALES. IT PROVIDES THE SKILLS NECESSARY TO INTERPRET THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. IT PROVIDES INFORMATION RELATING TO NATURAL HAZARDS, NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
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MAZZA ROBERTO
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The course program includes the presentation and discussion of the following topics:
Introduction to Geology: the uniqueness of planet Earth; aspects of geology, the Earth's crust - the processes affecting the surface (the model of the Earth's relief, the sedimentary processes, sedimentary rocks), the body of the Earth - the internal process (the interior of the Earth, the earthquakes, volcanic phenomena, igneous rocks, metamorphic rocks; lithogenetic cycle, plate tectonics) deformation of the crust (lithological succession, the deformation of rocks, the geometry of geological bodies ). The "craft" of the geologist: the geological survey (preliminary research, materials and methods, analysis and interpretation of geological maps, reading and interpretation of thematic maps), the geological-technical survey (principal physical and mechanical properties of earth and rocks, the geological exploration of subsoil). Engineering Geology: Slope instabilities; hydrogeology; study of the geological context related to planning issues (the geological hazard); first intervention on the territory; redevelopment (urban geology.)
( reference books)
JOHN P. GROTZINGER, THOMAS H. JORDAN – Capire la Terra – Edizione italiana a cura di Elvidio Lupia Palmieri e Maurizio Parotto – Zanichelli, Bologna
LAURA SCESI, MONICA PAPINI, PAOLA GATTINONI – Principi di Geologia applicata – Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano
VARIOUS MATERIAL PROVIDED BY THE TEACHER
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MATERIALS FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING
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THE AIM OF THE CLASS IS TO ACQUIRE THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MATERIALS USED IN CIVIL ENGINEERING, TO PERFORM TESTS ON MATERIALS AND TO COMPREHEND THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FROM THEIR USE.
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LANZARA GIULIA
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Introduction to Material Science and Technologies, snap-shots of continuum mechanics, Atomic bonds, Dislocations, Mechanical behavior of materials, Fracture, Materials for Civil Engineering (metals, polymers, concrete, composites, wood), Standards, An overview of new materials for Civil Engineering and of the new frontiers (intelligent materials, self-healing materials, nanocomposites etc.), Laboratory experience (Multifunctional Materials Laboratory)
( reference books)
lectures given during the course
W.D. Callister, Scienza e Ingegneria dei Materiali
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ENGINEERING
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The main scope of the course is to provide students with the basic knowledge of environmental engineering.
The course belongs to the three-year degree in Civil Engineering, whose aim is to prepare students in civil engineering by providing tools for the design, construction, maintenance and management of civil structures and infrastructures, such as buildings, bridges, tunnels, transport systems, hydraulic works and land protection. Road Materials is also a course of the master degrees in Road Infrastructures and Transport and Civil Engineering for Protection from Natural Risks, whose objective is training a highly professional figure in civil engineering with specific knowledge and skills in road infrastructures design and management and transportation issues and protection from hydrogeological and seismic risks, respectively.
Within such framework, the course aims at providing students with the basic knowledge and understanding about 1) the biotic and abiotic environment, with references to ecology, chemistry and biology principles; 2) the reference environmental legislation; 3) water, atmosphere and soil quality parameters; 4) the processes of diffusion of pollutants in the environment; 5) treatment techniques.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to 1) evaluate the quality parameters of water, atmosphere and soil in relation to the current legislation 2) analyze the different engineering techniques of water, atmosphere and soil treatment in function of the type of pollutant; 3) basic knowledge of the integrated management of urban solid waste.
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FIORI ALDO
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Chemestry and biology principles
• Ecology
• Water environment: water quality, water pollution, potabilization plants, waste water, waste water treatments.
• Air pollution: pollutants and system for emission treatment
• Solid waste: integrated waste management system, waste characteristics, collection systems, recovery operations, reuse and recycling, final disposal in a controlled landfill.
• Reclamation of contaminated sites
• Reference national laws (D.Lgs. 152/2006)
( reference books)
Ingegneria sanitaria-ambientale, Carlo Collivignarelli, Giorgio Bertanza, Città studi edizioni, 2012
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GEOMATICS
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FORMATIVE AIMS TO PROVIDE BASIC KNOWLEDGE ON MAJOR THEORETICAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND OPERATIONAL ISSUES INVOLVED IN SURVEYING, SO THAT THE STUDENT CAN ACQUIRE THE NECESSARY SKILLS TO DESIGN AND PERFORM A SURVEY AND TO PROCESS THE DATA RELATED TO IT. WE DISCUSS THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF GEODESY AND CARTOGRAPHY, THE PRINCIPLES OF SURVEYING AND THE QUANTITIES THAT CAN BE MEASURED WITH THE TOPOGRAPHICAL INSTRUMENTS, BOTH TERRESTRIAL AND SATELLITE, THE SURVEY METHODS AND THE TREATMENT OF OBSERVATIONS.
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SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
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TO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH KNOWLEDGE ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES, TO CLASSIFY THE IMPACTS, TO ILLUSTRATE THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY, TO DESCRIBE THE EVALUATION PROCEDURES OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND ENVIRONMENTAL CERTIFICATION PROTOCOLS. ILLUSTRATE , THROUGH SIGNIFICANT CASE STUDIES, EXAMPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND OF IMPACTS MITIGATION.
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SAFETY AT WORK AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE
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Safety at work and environmental defence aims at providing knowledge and competences on safety at work in civil engineering construction activities, with specific focus on rules and laws and on the professional roles in the field.
At the end of the course students shall be able of acting as coordinators safety measurements design and implementation according to the Italian laws.
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ALFARO DEGAN GUIDO
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LEGAL FORM
The Legislative Decree of the Government 81/2008 (Tit. I) and BS OHSAS 18001: 07, as basic legislation on safety and health at work. The DVR (Risk Assessment Document, art. 28) and art. 30, as tools for the design of the Company Management System on Health and Safety (SGSS). The SGSS and legislative compliance (Legislative Decree no. 81.08), continuous improvement and the "PDCA" principle of the Deming wheel. Training, awareness and competence. Consultation and communication. Operational control. Emergency preparedness and response. System performance, measurement, monitoring, audit and improvement.
European regulations and their value; good technical standards; product directives. BS OHSAS 18001: 07 is the implementation of the SGSS as an effective tool to reduce the risks associated with health and safety in the workplace for employees, customers and interested parties. Data and case studies. Applications.
The specific health and safety legislation on construction sites and work at height, the figures concerned, the Competent Bodies and the disciplinary discipline (Tit. IV Legislative Decree 81/08). The framework law on public works.
Risk assessment techniques. Insights on Check List Analysis, JSA, FAST (Method of functional spaces), HAZOP, FMEA, FTA techniques. Applications and case studies.
Exercises on the application of the BS OHSAS Standard Requirements to specific cases connected to mobile and temporary construction sites. System Audit Methods and Conformity Assessment. The "Production" method as a conformity assessment tool.
Case studies, judgments on the application of the Safety Legislation.
Literature and interpretation of incidental causes for historical events.
TECHNICAL FORM
Construction site safety and organization (also relating to documentary obligations); specific treatment of health and safety risks on site (occupational diseases, excavations, demolitions, underground and tunnel works, noise, vibrations, environmental remediation, asbestos, manual handling of loads (MMdC), fire, etc.) ; prevention and protection measures, organizational procedures, risk prevention techniques during assembly, disassembly and installation of structures, vehicles and construction elements; the risk of falling from above, scaffolding and temporary works.
Insights into occupational diseases related to work carried out in mobile and temporary construction sites;
Accident material agents, exposure assessment methods. Practical applications. NIOSH and OCRA techniques for MMdC risk assessment and biomechanical overload of the upper limbs.
Assessment of noise and vibration risk: exercises and applications; the asbestos risk, the remediation / demolition / safe treatment of MCA. Scaffolding and temporary works, construction techniques and safe management. Study cases.
METHODOLOGICAL / ORGANIZATIONAL / PRACTICAL MODULE
The security and coordination plan (contents, criteria and methods, examples and project); the replacement safety plan; communication and cooperation techniques; the Operational Safety Plan and the Work Dossier; processing methods of the Pi.M.U.S. (Assembly, Use, Disassembly of scaffolding); methodological criteria for processing and managing the documentation; estimate of safety costs on site.
Examples of PSC, area risk analysis, interference analysis and evaluation, the importance of planning and organization; tutorials and applications.
Drafting of Operational Safety Plans (POS): practical meaning and differences with DVRs pursuant to art. 28, the evaluation of risks from interference and differences with the DUVRI (art. 26 Legislative Decree 81/08); exercises and case studies.
Examples of Substitute Safety Plans (PSS); examples of Dossiers and practical applications based on the drafting of specific PSCs; judgments and sanctions regarding construction site safety; role simulations (Coordinator).
( reference books)
Lecture notes, texts, reference laws distributed in the classroom by the teacher
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