The course aims to provide students with the fundamental principles of soil and structural mechanics necessary for the analysis and design of major geotechnical and structural works in civil engineering.
With regard to geotechnics, the course covers the essential concepts for the study of shallow and deep foundations, rigid and flexible retaining structures, and slope stability problems.
With regard to structures, the course focuses on the displacement method for the analysis of elastic beams, the fundamentals of structural dynamics, the basic principles of stability of equilibrium, and introductory concepts of plasticity and elasto-plastic analysis of structural systems.
Ricevimento: Student reception is available by appointment, either in person at the instructor’s office or online via Teams, by contacting giuseppe.piccardo@unige.it. A fixed office hour, if required, will be scheduled in agreement with the students.
Ricevimento: By appointment.
Each of the two modules forming this teaching unit is separately examined.
The mark awarded in the teaching will be the average of the marks awarded in the modules into which the teaching is divided.
Please refer to the individual modules for details of the examination procedures.
The grade obtained in the course will be the average of the marks awarded in the modules into which the course is divided.
