Titular Professors
Professors
Degree in Architecture Studies or Fundamentals of Architecture.
Create architectural projects that satisfy the aesthetic and technical demands, and the requirements of the building users, respecting the limits imposed by budgetary factors and construction regulations.
Development:
It is developed through the successive revision of the student's proposal, contrasting it critically with the theoretical structural knowledge acquired in the previous courses. The student is asked to justify the suitability of the chosen structural type and its coherence with the rest of the project and its environment.
Once the structural type has been defined, the student must proceed to analytically pre-dimension the most representative elements of its structure and, subsequently, to verify through computer programs of numerical calculation the suitability of the pre-dimensioning performed. This verification of the structure of the building must meet three basic objectives:
- global stability,
- the resistance and
- the deformational behaviour.
Lastly, the student must be able to correctly represent the necessary information for the interpretation and construction of this structure, and to do this, real examples of representation of the different structural typologies will have been studied and the graphic and written proposal will have been critically reviewed.
It prepares the student to be able to design the resistant structures of the buildings (structural project). Consequently, it enables him to develop the calculation of these structures (structural calculation and to find the ideal form, condition and mechanical behaviour for each programmatic, territorial, climatological or use situation (structural typology), all in accordance with the architectonic characteristics and the resistant materials proposed in the project (resistance of materials).
Index of contents:
1. Suitability of the type of structure.
a. Relation of the structural type and material with the environment.
b. Relation of the structural type with the architectural form and the functional program.
2. Predimensioning of the most representative structural elements of the project
a. Predimensioning of the horizontal structure:
Edge of unidirectional or bidirectional slabs.
Dimensions of beams or girders of reinforced concrete or wood.
Dimensioning of the different elements of the metal trusses.
b. Predimensioning of concrete, metallic, of brick or wood supports.
c. Predimensioning of the retaining and foundation elements.
3. Checking of the pre-dimensioning design after using computer programs of numerical calculation and analytical checks.
a. Definition of the coherent calculation model.
b. Critical review of the calculation results obtained.
c. Verification of compliance with the ultimate limit state and serviceability limit state.
d. Redimensioning if necessary.
4. Graphic representation of the designed structure.
a. Horizontal structure, floor plans and details.
b. Supports and stabilization, support frames and general sections.
c. Foundation and retaining elements, floor plans and details.
Development:
The training will be carried out in the form of a workshop, combining manual pre-dimensioning calculations with aid of calculation software. The verification of the pre-dimensioned elements will be carried out according to structural, constructive and project criteria.
The presential classes are developed in the form of a workshop, where the theoretical content is combined with practical predimensioning exercises to verify the proposed designs.
Once the pre-dimensioning has been carried out, the presential classes take place in the workshop computer rooms, with the support of computer programs for numerical calculation where the suitability of the calculation models and the pre-sizing performed is verified.
Finally, the student will develop at home or in the classroom the graphic proposal and the memory that accurately describes its structure.
- Theoretical sessions and practical sessions in which there will be carried out a continuous correction of the project developed by the student during the semester and the presentation by the student of his proposal.
- The presential classes are developed combining exposition of theoretical contents and practical calculation and pre-dimensioning exercises for a better understanding of the concepts presented in each session and the physical magnitude of the project itself.
- The acquired knowledge is included and worked on the project that the students are developing with the support of the professor through correction sessions.
- The semester is complemented by the numerical verification, made by each student (individual), of the elements of the projects structure.
15 % Assistance and participation in class
15 % Oral and graphic presentation
Executive definition of structural projects
20 % Pre-dimensioned
20 % Verification
10 % Model
20 % Justification typology
The evaluation of the master will be continuous and linked to the following parameters:
- Attendance and participation in the theoretical sessions.
- Attendance, follow-up and participation in the practical and correction sessions.
- Participatory attitude and motivation.
- Consistency of the chosen structural typology.
- Correct pre-dimensioning and verification of the structure.
- Graphic and oral presentation of the exercises proposed during the course.
- Schematic design, design development and constructive documents, in which is reflected (in an evolutionary way) the knowledge acquired. The documents to be delivered must comply with the minimum contents set by the professors, and the rigor and easy reading, through architectural arguments, of the decisions and solutions adopted in the project.
Eduardo Torroja Razon y ser de los tipos estructurales. CSIC.
Francis D. K. Ching Manual de estructuras ilustrado Gustavo Gili.
Ministerio de Fomento Código Técnico de la edificación: www.codigotecnico.org
Ministerio de Fomento EHE-08 Instrucción del hormigón estructural. Boe.es
Ministerio de Fomento EAE Instrucción acero estructural. Boe.es
Bibliografia complementaria
Pedro Jimenez Montoya Hormigón armado Gustavo Gili
Monografías INTEMAC.
Ramon Argüelles Álvarez, Estructuras de acero