BUILDING TECHNIQUE

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in ARCHITECTURE

Location:

ALGHERO

Disciplinary Sector:

Construction Techniques

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

GIACCU Gian Felice

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Courses of Math, Static, and Solid/Structure Mechanics - highly reccommended the course 'Advanced Structure Mechanics' ('Complementi di Scienza delle Costruzioni')

AF code:

40002226

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

A written examination, which may cover part of steel or the part of the reinforced concrete with questions on the theory and exercises, two individual projects of the year of a steel building and of a reinforced concrete. Two individual projects will count for about one-third to the final mark.

Teaching period

Single Annual Cycle

Objectives

The course aims to provide students with the ability to carry out the preliminary design of a structure, and with the scientific concepts to design simple steel structures including bracings, and simple reinforced concrete elements such as slabs, beams, columns and footings.

Contents

The structural design process; three dimensional behaviour of the structures; load calculations; steel structures; comparison among different structural materials; the theory of reinforced concrete applied to the cases of slabs, beams, columns and footings.

Recommended Bibliography

All PowerPoint presentations (in English) will be provided to the students

Teaching Methods

PowerPoint presentations and worked examples using chalk and black board on the different topics of the course.

Contacts/More Information

Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language to incoming students:
Inglese/English
Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language:
Inglese/English

Other courses

Course year: 1

Architectural design in historical contexts - Design and restoration studio
20 credits
PROGETTAZIONE AMBIENTALE (LABORATORIO DI PROGETTAZIONE ARCHITETTONICA 1)
12 credits
Right to the city
10 credits
STRUCTURES DYNAMICS
8 credits
Architectural theory and design
6 credits - Caratterizzante
BUILDING TECHNIQUE
8 credits - Caratterizzante
HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE III
6 credits - Caratterizzante
ANCIENT TOPOGRAPHY
4 credits - A scelta dello studente
BUILDING TECHNIQUE II
3 credits - A scelta dello studente
COMPLEMENTS OF BUILDING SCIENCE
3 credits - A scelta dello studente

Course year: 2

PROGETTO E SOSTENIBILITA'
22 credits
PROJECT METHODOLOGY
6 credits - Affine/Integrativa
STUDENT OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES
8 credits - A scelta dello studente
FINAL TEST
19 credits - Lingua/Prova Finale
COMPUTER AND TELEMATIC SKILLS
3 credits - Altro

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