Structural mechanics.

The course presents the main approaches for modeling the material and structural behavior under the effects of different loading conditions, focusing on the crack propagation in elastic media and structures, ductile-brittle fracture transition phenomena, thermo-elastic/plastics models, damage under increased temperatures, elasto-plastic and stability behavior of different structural members under a static and dynamic loading.

At the end of the course, the students will have a solid knowledge of the structural modeling strategies and FEM-based computational tools allowing a robust safety analysis of resilient structures and infrastructrues, for different geometries, boundary conditions, loading conditions, and material properties.

Frontal lessons and exercises.

Oral exam

• Plates and shells
• Finite element method
• Dynamics of discrete and continuous systems
• Buckling instability in slender, thin, and shallow structures
• Long-span structures: dynamcis and buckling
• High-rise structures: statics and dynamics
• Theory of plasticity
• Plane stress/strain conditions
• Mechanics of fracture

Alberto Carpinteri - Advanced Structural Mechanics, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group