Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Architecture ( Integrated Master)

ESTÁTICA - 2023/2024

3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 3.5

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Mestre Carlos Garcia
Assistant Professor: Mestre Carlos Garcia

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 4 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Tends present that the transmission of knowledge in the area of the Civil Engineering should be continuous and gradual along the course, and adjusted to the course of Architecture, the program of the discipline of Statics was elaborated of way that the approached matters transmitted the necessary knowledge to the understanding of the behaviour of the different structural elements, constituent of the structures of the buildings. The discipline embraces like this matter of the area of the Statics.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Being a preparatory and introductory discipline to the discipline of Structural Systems, the objective of the discipline is to sensitize the students for the problem of the Statics as integral part of the constructive and structural system. The students acquire knowledge that allow them a better understanding of the importance of the structural elements, of its behaviour and operation, and the capacity at first of measure the dimensions of the same, given to have in bill in the execution of a project, for best integrate the structural elements in the project.

Skills to be acquired

Through the subjects to be approached, students acquire knowledge that allows them to determine the value of the loads that the structural elements have to support according to the characteristics of the project under study. In this way, they acquire bases for obtaining the order of magnitude of the dimension of the structural elements, essential data to take into account in the execution of an architectural project, in order to better integrate them there.

Teaching Procedures

The approach of the matter is accomplished through a theoretical introduction, which is followed by practical exercises in its application.

Programme

LOADS ON STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS:
- Classification of structures taking into account their functioning: Beams (flat systems); Meshy (flat systems); Bows; Trusses (flat systems).
- Type of loads: Concentrated loads; Evenly distributed loads; Moment load; Mobile loads.
- Symbology and units.
REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS:
- General security verification criteria: Ultimate limit states; Usage limit states.
- Classification of actions: Permanent actions; Variable actions; Accident actions.
- Actions quantification criterions.
- Actions combination criterions: Verification of ultimate limit states (Fundamental combinations; Action combinations for accidental project situations; Action combinations for seismic project situations); Verification of utilization limit states (Characteristic combination; Frequent combination; Quasi-permanent combination).
- Quantification of actions : Permanent actions (Weights of dividing walls in buildings); Variable actions (Overloads; Wind action; Snow action; Earthquake action; Action of temperature variations).
FORCES SYSTEMS:
- Definitions and fundamental concepts.
- Resultant of a system of concentrated loads: Addition of concentrated loads (Parallelogram rule – graphic solution; Force polygon rule – graphic solution; Rectangular components of a concentrated load – trigonometric solution).
- Resultant of an evenly distributed load.
- Force moment in relation to a point: Rectangular components of the moment of a force; Varignon ´s Theorem.
- Reduction of systems of forces: Equilibrium of a system of forces.
- Rigid bodies: Degrees of freedom; Equilibrium conditions in flat systems; Connections (Types of support and their reactions ; Transmissions or connections); Calculation of the reactions in the supports of the beams (Convention of signs and directions of the resistance of the materials; Statically determined and indeterminate systems).
- Classification of structures according to the number of unknowns and equations: Isostatic structures; Hyperstatic structures ; Hypostatic structures .
RETICULATE SYSTEMS:
- Deformable and non-deformable reticulated systems.
- Flat trusses.
- Space trusses.
- Nature of the efforts in the bars of the plane reticulated systems.
- Isostatic, hyperstatic and hypostatic plane reticulated systems .
- Calculation of the efforts in the members of the plane trusses: Equilibrium, node to node, of the plane trusses - analytical method; Ritter method – analytical method; Maxwell-Cremona method – graphical method.
- Types of triangulation of flat trusses.
- Geometry and types of joints of plane trusses nodes.
- Geometric definition of spatial trusses.
- Methods of structural analysis of space trusses.
- Geometry and types of joints of space trusses nodes.

Evaluation Type

The evaluation of knowledge, in function of the marks revealed by the students, it is accomplished in agreement with the General Regulation of Evaluation of Knowledge of the Lusíada University, that is integral part of Lusíada University´s Statute, and as such, it is kept in mind the assiduity to the classes and the students´ acting in the same ones, and the accomplishment of the tests writings.

Teaching Resources

The theoretical introduction of the material is carried out with the visualization of elements that are available to students on the moodle platform. After the theoretical introduction, exercises related to the subject follow, with the statements of these same exercises also available to students on the moodle platform.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Structures;
Loads;
Systems;
Trusses.

Main Bibliography

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