Oral exam theory and exercices based on the understanding of mechanical phenoma
Theory
- magistral lessons in auditorium
Exercices
- two students groupworks and peerlearning
Laboratory
- conception of a small bridge: mecanical principles, test model
Theory: Strength of materials, structural design and analysis of constructive typologies
- Tension: Cables and membranes
- Compression: Arches and domes
- Materials: behavior, atomic bonds, steel and wood
- Mechanical flexion, deformation (elastic and plastic), combined bending, left bending, indeterminate beams, buckling, shear
- Load study and bracing
Exercises: Complex study modeled on real cases
- Funicular structur
- Load study and bracing
Laboratory: Conception of a small bridge
- Analysis of his mechanical principles.
- Building of a model and crash test
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