Unit STRUCTURAL SHAPES FOR DESIGN

Course
Design
Study-unit Code
A000225
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Federico Cluni
Teachers
  • Federico Cluni
Hours
  • 54 ore - Federico Cluni
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Base
Area
Formazione tecnologica
Academic discipline
ICAR/08
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
Behavior of materials; Loads acting on a solid; Equilibrium in a solid; Stress state of a solid; Basic structural types (cables, beams, frames, arches, membranes, thin shells); composition of the fundamental structural types.
Reference texts
M. Salvadori, R. Heller, D. Oakley "Salvadori's Structure in Architecture: The Building of Buildings" (4a ed.), Pearson 2016

Mike Ashby & Kara Johnson, "Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design (3rd ed.), Elsevier 2014

Lecture notes available at: https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/
Educational objectives
The course aims to provide students with the skills necessary to evaluate the resistance capacity of an object (Product design) with respect to the mechanical stresses to which it can be subjected, with particular reference to the connection between the shape and the state of stress in the material.Students will acquire the tools for a preliminary analysis of the static behavior of artefacts made of some fundamental structural types, such as cables, beams, frames, arches, membranes, thin shells, also in the context of Interior Design, Exhibit Design or Retail Design projects.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the concept of force, work energy. Newton's laws and equilibrium of forces. Knowledge of the concepts of derivative and integral. Understanding the physico-chemical characteristics of the materials.
Teaching methods
The course is organized with Face-to-face lectures on all subjects of the course.
Some lections will be devoted to practical exercitation in order to acquire speficic abilities in solving simple structures.
Moreover in some cases active learning approaches as flipped-classroom, learning-by-doing and think-aloud could be used.
Other information
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Learning verification modality
The exam consists of an oral test consisting on an interview about half an hour long, aiming to ascertin the knowledge level and the understanding capability acquired by the student on theoretical and methodological contents as indicated on the.The oral exam will also test the student communication skills and his autonomy in the organization and exposure of the theoretical topics.
Extended program
Introduction; Loads; Balance, Stability and Resistance; Graphical Statics; Tensions and deformations; Behavior of Structural Materials; Basic States of Stress; Tension and Compression Elements; Beams; Geometry of Areas; Frames and Arches; Composition of Structural Elements; Trusses; Slabs; Membranes; Thin Shells and Spatial Trusses
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