Study-unit STRUCTURAL SHAPES FOR DESIGN
| Course name | Design |
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| Study-unit Code | A000225 |
| Location | PERUGIA |
| Curriculum | Comune a tutti i curricula |
| Lecturer | Federico Cluni |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Course Regulation | Coorte 2023 |
| Supplied | 2024/25 |
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| Learning activities | Base |
| Area | Formazione tecnologica |
| Sector | 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 | - |
| Learning verification modality | The exam consists of an oral test consisting on an interview about half an hour long, aiming to asceratin the knowledge level and the understanding capability acquired by the student on theoretical and methodological contents as indicated on the program. The oral exam will also test the student communication skills and his autonomy in the organization and exposure of the theoretical topics. For information on support services for students with disability and/or specific learning disorders visit the page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa |
| 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 |