Sustainable Building Engineering

1. Principles of structural design: conceptual design, loads and load paths, structural modeling, structural requirements, limit states, demand, capacity, performance, performance based design. 2. Buckling: Phenomenology, Buckling types, equilibrium on undeformed and deformed shape, critical load assessment, effective length, slenderness, examples. 3. Structural reliability: epistemic and aleatoric uncertainties, random variables, histogram of relative frequencies, probability functions, fractiles, probabilistic and semi-probabilistic approach. 4. Loads: Typologies, classifications, coefficients and loads combinations according to international codes 5. Steel buildings: material properties, production process, steel elements properties, stress-strain relationships, steel grades, structural typologies. 6. Steel buildings: Bending capacity in the elastic and plastic fields, classes of sections, capacity against axial loads pure and combined, capacity against shear loads pure and combined. 7. RC buildings: Concrete properties, test on material, Concrete grades, stress-strain relationship, Rebar steel, adherence/bonding, structural typologies. 8. RC buildings: RC element under normal loads, critical deformation fields, Capacity against pure bending and interaction with axial loads, RC element behaviour under transverse loads, shear capacity of elements with or without transversal reinforcements. Structural detailing.

- Structural mechanics - Building materials science - Physics - Mathematical analysis - Probability and statistics (basic)

Several books are suggested to students, some regarding general Strucutral design topics, some others focused on Steel structures design or Reinforced Concrete Design.

Frequence is not mandatory

Written test with three exercises: - One exercise about general topics (e.g., load combinations, buckling) - One exercise about structural check/design of a simple steel structure. - One exercise about structural check/design of a simple reinforced concrete structure. Oral test: - Two or three questions about the contents of the course explained in the classes and available on the support material.

Schodek D.L., Bechtold M. – Structures – Pearson College, (VII edition revised) 2013 D.K. Ching, B. S. Onouye, D. Zuberbuhler, Building structures illustrated, Wiley. Furiozzi, Messina, Paolini - Handbook for the calculation of structural elements. Le Monnier T.V. Galambos, F.J. Lin, B.G. Johnston. Basic Steel Design with LRFD. Pearson education, 1996. Bernuzzi, C., Cordova, B.– Structural Steel Design to Eurocode 3 and AISC Specifications- J. Wiley & S.,2016 W.H. Mosley, J.H. Bungey& R. Hulse. Reinforced Concrete Design. MacMillan press, London, UK. F. Leonhardt, E.Monnig, The Reinforcing of Concrete Structures.

Classes are helded in room by using slides for the theoric part and by using the blackboard for exercise development.