| Study programme competencies |
| Code | Study programme competences |
| A19 | Coñecementos e capacidades para o cálculo e deseño de estruturas. |
| A29 | Coñecementos e capacidades para aplicar os fundamentos da elasticidade e a resistencia de materiais ao comportamento de sólidos reais. |
| B1 | Posuír e comprender coñecementos que acheguen unha base ou oportunidade de ser orixinais no desenvolvemento e/ou aplicación de ideas, a miúdo nun contexto de investigación. |
| B2 | Que os estudantes saiban aplicar os coñecementos adquiridos e a súa capacidade de resolución de problemas en ámbitos novos ou pouco coñecidos dentro de contextos máis amplos (ou multidisciplinares) relacionados coa súa área de estudo. |
| B3 | Que os estudantes sexan capaces de integrar coñecementos e enfrontarse á complexidade de formular xuízos a partir dunha información que, sendo incompleta ou limitada, inclúa reflexións sobre as responsabilidades sociais e éticas vinculadas á aplicación dos seus coñecementos e xuízos. |
| Learning aims | |||
| Learning outcomes | Study programme competences | ||
| Students will know to apply the foundations of the elasticity and resistance of materials to the actual behaviour of structural elements. | AJ19 AJ29 |
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| Participants will understand the laws that govern the computational analysis of structures. They will analyze and design the structures formed by discrete elements. | AJ19 AJ29 |
BJ1 BJ2 BJ3 |
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| Students will handle a program based on matrix techniques for the structural analysis and design | AJ19 AJ29 |
BJ1 BJ2 BJ3 |
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| Participants will use a rigorous language in the field of structural engineering to display and to process data and results. | AJ19 AJ29 |
BJ1 BJ2 BJ3 |
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| Contents |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Chapter 0. The following topics develop the contents set up in the verification memory. | Basic concepts in structural analysis. Description and types of analysis of structures. Regulations applicable to the design and analysis of structures. Introduction to the analysis of structures by a computer. |
| Chapter 1. Introduction to matrix structural analysis. | Introduction. Structure idealization. System redundances and degrees of freedom. Method of flexibility. Direct stiffness method. Comparison between the two methods. Global and local coordinates. Transformations of spatial coordinates. Transformation matrix. |
| Chapter 2. Stiffness matrix of structural elements | Introduction. Axial force member with plane movement. General axial force member. Beam bending member with plane movement. Beam torsional and bending member. General beam member. Problems. |
| Chapter 3. Stiffness matrix of the frame | Compatibility equations. Equilibrium at nodes. Stiffness matrix properties. Problems. |
| Chapter 4. Boundary conditions. | Need of boundary conditions. Introduction of null displacement. Introduction of prescribed displacement. Other techniques of introduction of boundary conditions. Elastic supports. Inclined supports. Problems. |
| Chapter 5. Forces. | Introduction. Loads between nodal points. Calculation of fix end forces, bending moment diagrams and reactions. Initial or thermal strain conditions. Problems. |
| Planning | ||||
| Methodologies / tests | Competencies | Ordinary class hours | Student’s personal work hours | Total hours |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | A19 A29 B1 B2 B3 | 7 | 21 | 28 |
| Seminar | A19 A29 B1 B2 B3 | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| Supervised projects | A19 A29 B1 B2 B3 | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| Objective test | A19 A29 B1 B2 B3 | 4 | 12 | 16 |
| Personalized attention | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| (*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students. | ||||
| Methodologies |
| Methodologies | Description |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | Oral lecture supplemented with the use of audiovisual means, aiming transmit knowledge and facilitate the learning within the scope of structural analysis |
| Seminar | Methodology that allows the realization of activities of practical character, with computer, such as modelization and structural analysis |
| Supervised projects | Methodology designed to promote autonomous learning of students, solving a problem that involves the contents of the course and involves specific skills, under teacher supervision. |
| Objective test | Classic test in which the student responds to questions and problems posed by the teacher in order to evaluate and qualify the learning. |
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| Assessment | |||
| Methodologies | Competencies | Description | Qualification |
| Objective test | A19 A29 B1 B2 B3 | There will be an exam of the subject. Required a mark of 3 out of 10 in order to average with the project. |
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| Supervised projects | A19 A29 B1 B2 B3 | Student projects will be carried out along the four-month period. The project that has not received the corresponding follow-up by the teacher will not be accepted. If a student does not make the project, he must take an objective test from this part of the subject. |
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| Sources of information |
| Basic |
McCormac, Jack C. (2011). Análisis de estructuras : métodos clásico y matricial . México : Alfaomega
Hibbeler, Russell C. (2012). Análisis estructural . Naucalpan de Juárez : Pearson
Celigüeta Lizarza, Juan Tomás (2003). Curso de análisis estructural . Eunsa, Ediciones Universidad de Navarra. Pamplona
W. McGuire, R. H. Gallagher, R.D. Ziemian (2000). Matrix Structural Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
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