The Modulus of Structural Design aims at providing the students with the main theoretical bases and code requirements necessary for the structural design in seismic zones. Students will be able to understand the main structural features of reinforced concrete and masonry buildings and problems arising from regularity/ irregular shapes both in plan and elevation; they will also analyse o building damages and collapse mechanisms due to seismic events.
EC8, Eurocode EN 1998, European Union norm on construction. Design of structures for earthquake resistance, 1998.
Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Buildings, Paulay, T. and Priestley, N., John Wiley & Sons, 1992.
Design of Earthquake Resistant Buildings, Wakabayashi, M., McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 1986.
The Seismic Design Handbook, F. Naeim, Ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
Earthquake Resistant Design, Dorwick, D., Wiley, New York, NY, 1989.
Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering, Newmark, N. and Rosenblueth, E., Prentice Hall, New York, NY, 1971.
Obiettivi Formativi
The Course of Architectural Structural Design Lab includes an integrated multidisciplinary teaching in: Architectural Design, Structural Design, and Building Systems Design, focused on structural analysis. The specific educational purposes of a further discussion of the theoretical and operative basis behind structural design and dimensioning are integrated with the more general control of the design and composition, and of its constructive connotations, according to an educational plan aimed at providing, through the new Laboratories, an ever increasing organic consultation between the various aspects involved in the design process.
Prerequisiti
3-year degree in Architecture
Metodi Didattici
Specific topics of the Modulus of Structural Design are presented during initial lectures. Subsequently, structural design of particular elements will be carried out and students will have to present their drawings at Desk Critique/Review to discuss and revise them with the teaching staff.
Altre Informazioni
During class is forbidden to use cell phones, drink and eat, and listen to music, talk loud or act in any way to disturb, etc.. During lecture is forbidden to use also computer etc. The student has to be present at each lecture and each desk critique/review. Each project/assignment deadline as scheduled is mandatory. The student will be admitted to the final exam only if has reached a minimun of 75% of attendance at the lectures.
Modalità di verifica apprendimento
Final exam will grade the final integrated project
Programma del corso
Topics
Lessons from earthquakes:
- The L’Aquila seismic event of 6th of april, 2009.
- Reinforced concrete buildings damages and collapse mechanisms
- Masonry buildings damages and collapse mechanisms
- The effect of the structural regularity/irregularity
- Eurocode requirements
Principles of Conceptual Design:
- Structural simplicity
- Regularity
- Bi-directional strength and stiffness
- Torsional strength and stiffness
- Floor slabs as rigid diaphragms
- Adequate foundations
Design of reinforced concrete structural elements:
- Concrete and steel
- Ultimate Limit State
- Serviceability Limit State
- Bending design of rectangular cross sections
- Design of rectangular cross sections under combined axial and bending actions