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ARCHITECTURE |
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• Theory and Design of Structures (taught in English) |
3rd Year of the Bachelor in Architecture |
ECTS: 8 |
Tenure Teachers: Dr. Mauro Corrado Dr. Mario Sassone |
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Programme (1) FUNDAMENTALS OF
SOLID MECHANICS AND STRENGTH OF MATERIALS (12 hours) The strain and the stress
tensors; the Cauchy Tetrahedron; concepts of homogeneity, isotropy, anelasticity, linear and nonlinear elasticity;
constitutive relations; Mohr's circles for the determination of principal
stresses, principal strains and principal directions; properties of the
elastic solution; fundamental theorems of elasticity (Kirchhoff, Clapeyron and Betti's
theorems). (2) THE SAINT
VENANT PROBLEM (30 hours) Properties of areas; the
Saint Venant problem: introduction and fundamental
hypotheses; centred axial force; flexure; eccentric axial force; torsion in
beams of circular or generic cross-section; torsion in open or closed
thin-walled cross-sections; shearing force; thin-walled cross-sections
subjected to shear; combined shearing and torsional loading; beam strength analysis;
the differential equation of the elastic line; buckling. (3) ELEMENTS OF
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS FOR THE SOLUTION OF STATICALLY INDETERMINATE STRUCTURES
(21 hours) The method of forces; the
method of displacements; introduction to the use of a finite element
programme and solution of simple structural problems. (4) DESIGN OF
REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES (21 hours) Strength assessment
according to the semi-probabilistic method of Limit State Analysis;
fundamental concepts for the design or reinforced concrete structures. |
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CIVIL ENGINEERING |
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• Plasticity and Fracture (taught in Italian) |
1st Year of the
Master of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 8 |
Tenure Teacher: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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Programme (1) PLASTICITY (18 h): Elasto-plastic flexure;
incremental plastic analysis of beam systems; theorems of plastic limit
analysis; proportionally loaded beam systems; non-proportionally loaded beam
systems; cyclic loads and shake-down; deflected rectangular and circular
plates; strip method. (2) PLANE STRESS
AND PLANE STRAIN CONDITIONS(18 h): Plane stress and plane strain conditions in cartesian coordinates, deep beam; plane stress and plane
strain conditions in cylindrical coordinates, thick-walled cylinder; circular
hole in a plate subjected to tension; concentrated force acting on the edge
of an elastic half-plane; Analytical functions; Kolosoff-Muskhelishvili
method; elliptical hole in a plate subjected to tension. (3) LINEAR ELASTIC
FRACTURE MECHANICS (18 h): Griffith’s energy criterion; Westergaard’s
method; Williams’ method; fundamental relation between the energy and the
stress approaches, crack branching criteria in Mixed Mode condition; plastic
zone at the crack tip; size effects and ductile-to-brittle transition. (4) NON-LINEAR
FRACTURE MECHANICS (18 h): Cohesive crack model, snap-back phenomenon; advanced
applications of the cohesive crack model: Mixed Mode crack propagation;
overlapping crack model for concrete in compression; bridged crack model,
minimum reinforcement; advanced applications of the bridged crack model:
repeated loading. (5) ADVANCED
APPLICATIONS (12 h): Size-scale effects
on the plastic rotational capacity of reinforced concrete beams in bending;
application of Fractal Geometry to damaging and cracking phenomena;
Multi-fractal Scaling Law (MFSL), size effects in the international standard
codes; composite and hierarchical materials; fatigue crack growth and
residual life of structures subjected to repeated loads, Paris’ law;
structural monitoring by the acoustic emission technique: seismic precursors. |
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• Structural Mechanics II (taught in Italian) |
1st Year of the
Master of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 8 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Giuseppe Ferro Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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Programme (1) STATICALLY INDETERMINATE STRUCTURES Structural symmetry; Rotating- and translating-
frames. Thermal loads and imposed displacements. Frames with non-orthogonal
beams; Method of displacements: automatic computation of beam systems. Plane
trusses, plane frames, plane grids and space frames. (2) TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES Beams with rectilinear and curvilinear axes:
static-kinematic duality. Beam on elastic foundation; Plates in
flexure: static-kinematic duality. Sophie-Germain
equation with boundary conditions. Shells with double curvature; Symmetrically
loaded shells of revolution: membranes and thin shells, circular plates,
cylindrical shells; Finite Element Method: Principle of minimum potential
energy, Ritz-Galerkin method, Principle of Virtual
Work. (3) DYNAMICS OF STRUCTURES Single-degree-of-freedom
linear systems: Free response, Damped response, Forced response to harmonic,
periodic, impulsive or generic excitations, Non-linear elastic oscillator, Elasto-plastic oscillator; Multi-degree-of-freedom
linear systems: modal analysis, Rayleigh’s quotient, Stodola-Vianello
method; Continuous systems: modal analysis of deflected beams, Membranes and
plates in vibration; Finite Element Method; Dynamics of beam systems; Element of Seismic
Engineering; Italian Code and practical concepts for earthquake design. |
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Past Activity |
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A.Y. 2012/13 |
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• Plasticity and
Fracture (taught in Italian) |
1st Year of the
Master of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 8 |
Tenure Teacher: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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• Structural
Mechanics II (taught in Italian) |
1st Year of the
Master of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 8 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Giuseppe Ferro Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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• Structure (taught in Italian) |
1st Year of the Master
of Science in Architecture – Sustainability Design |
ECTS: 6 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Giuseppe Ferro Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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A.Y. 2011/12 |
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• Plasticity and
Fracture (taught in Italian) |
1st Year of the Master
of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 8 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Alberto Carpinteri Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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• Structural
Mechanics II (taught in Italian) |
1st Year of the
Master of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 8 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Pietro Cornetti Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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• Solid Mechanics (taught in Italian) |
1st Year of the
Master of Science in Mathematical Modelling in Engineering |
ECTS: 6 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Pietro Cornetti Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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• Static and Dynamic
Instability of Structures (taught in Italian) |
2st Year of the
Master of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 6 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Pietro Cornetti Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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A.Y. 2010/11 |
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• Plasticity and Fracture (taught in Italian) |
1st Year of the
Master of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 8 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Alberto Carpinteri Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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• Structural
Mechanics II (taught in Italian) |
1st Year of the Master
of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 8 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Pietro Cornetti Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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• Theory of
Structures (taught in Italian) |
2st Year of the
Master of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 5 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Alberto Carpinteri Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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A.Y. 2009/10 |
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• Materials and
Fracture Mechanics (taught in Italian) |
1st Year of the
Master of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 5 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Alberto Carpinteri Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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• Structural
Mechanics II (taught in Italian) |
1st Year of the
Master of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 10 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Alberto Carpinteri Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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• Theory of
Structures (taught in Italian) |
2st Year of the
Master of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 5 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Alberto Carpinteri Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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A.Y. 2008/09 |
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• Materials and
Fracture Mechanics (taught in Italian) |
1st Year of the
Master of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 5 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Alberto Carpinteri Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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• Structural
Mechanics II (taught in Italian) |
1st Year of the
Master of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 10 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Alberto Carpinteri Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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• Theory of
Structures (taught in Italian) |
2st Year of the
Master of Science in Civil Engineering |
ECTS: 5 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Alberto Carpinteri Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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A.Y. 2006/07 |
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• Structural
Engineering (taught in Italian) |
3st Year of the
Bachelor in Civil Engineering in water management |
ECTS: 10 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Luca Giordano Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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A.Y. 2005/06 |
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• Constructions A (taught in Italian) |
3st Year of the
Bachelor in Civil Engineering in water management |
ECTS: 5 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Luca Giordano Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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• Constructions B (taught in Italian) |
3st Year of the Bachelor
in Civil Engineering in water management |
ECTS: 5 |
Tenure Teacher: Prof. Luca Giordano Lecturer: Dr. Mauro Corrado |
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Proposals
for Final Projects |
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• Failure mechanisms
transitions in RC elements: flexure, shearing and crushing. • Numerical modelling
of reinforced concrete structures • Application of the
Extended Finite Element Method to the plastic analysis of frame structures • Multiscale and multiphysics analysis of photovoltaic modules • Cohesive Zone Model
for metallic materials • Low velocity impacts on
brittle materials • Dynamic crack
propagation in finite thickness interfaces |
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Tutoring of
Bachelor and Master Theses
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8. Fulvio Savarino: “Experimental study of the durability of
photovoltaic modules”, Master Thesis, Advisors: M. Paggi, M. Corrado, A.
Infuso, 2014. 7. Alessandro Cinquia: “Retrofitting of
damaged reinforced concrete structural elements”, Master Thesis, Advisor: M.
Corrado, 2014. 6. Mirko Manca: “Mechanical characterization
of concrete-like materials and rammed earth by means of non-destructive
testing techniques”, Master Thesis, Advisor: M. Corrado, 2014. 5. Davide Villani:
“Experimental validation of a theoretical model for the shear strength of
reinforced concrete beams”, Master Thesis, Advisors: A. Carpinteri,
G. Ventura, M. Corrado, 2013. 4. Davide Leone: “Modelling of the
viscoelastic behaviour of polymeric materials used
in photovoltaic modules”, Master Thesis, Advisors: M. Paggi, M. Corrado,
2013. 3. Giusemaria Goso: “Size-scale effects on the interaction diagrams of
reinforced concrete elements subjected to eccentric compression”, Master
Thesis, Advisors: A. Carpinteri, M. Paggi, M.
Corrado, 2010. 2. Alessio Chianese: “Lateral load distribution in high-rise
building: effects of bracings of different height”, Master Thesis, Advisors:
A. Carpinteri, G. Lacidogna,
M. Corrado, 2010. 1. Sandro Cammarano: “Dynamics and instability of open thin-walled
beams according to the Vlasov’s theory”, Master
Thesis, Advisors: A. Carpinteri, G. Lacidogna, M. Corrado, 2010. |
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