Behavior of Structural Materials
Code
9676
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Engenharia Civil
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Carlos Manuel Chastre Rodrigues, João Carlos Gomes Rocha de Almeida
Weekly hours
1
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
This curricular unit aims to provide an approach that allows the student to understand the phenomenological behaviour of materials, with a particular focus on cases of increasing importance in applications and little preparation in Civil Engineering courses: cyclic and dynamic actions, ageing of materials.
The students that have successfully completed this curricular unit should be able to:
1. Analyze, discuss and compare the composition, properties, and behaviour of alternative structural materials, and identify the most suitable for the intended structural solution;
2. Formulate the constitutive laws and model the mechanical behaviour of structural materials under monotonic, cyclic or dynamic actions;
3. Analyze and discuss the standards and tests for physical, mechanical and durability characterization of structural materials;
4. Identify the best-suited methods of non-destructive testing of structural materials;
5. apply the acquired knowledge in their specific area of specialization.
Subject matter
Technology, composition and mechanical properties of structural materials. Creep, fatigue and ageing of materials. Durability. Mechanisms of degradation of materials and their importance on the structural behaviour.
Analysis of the behaviour of structural materials: ordinary concrete, self-compactable concrete, white concrete, lightweight concrete, concrete with fibers, GRC, polymer concretes and high-performance concrete, repair mortars, cement, steel reinforced bars coated with epoxy, construction steels, stainless steel, armor coated with epoxy, aluminum, SMAs, Rocks, Wood, Glass, Polymers and Composites ; Elastomers.
Constitutive laws and modelling of mechanical behaviour under monotonic, cyclic or dynamic actions.
Standards and testing for physical, mechanical and durability of structural materials. NDT methods for structural materials.
Bibliography
• N.Dowling, Mechanical Behavior of Materials. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1993.
• J.M. Charrier, Polymeric Materials and Processing: Plastics, Elastomers and Composites, Hanser Gardner Pubns. 2000.
• Bhagwan, Agarwal and Lawrence Broutman, Analysis and Performance of Fiber Composites, Second Ed., by Wiley, New York, 1990.
• P. Mehta, Concrete microstructures, properties and materials. McGraw-Hill, 2005.
• J.R. Vinson, R.L. Sierakowski, The Behavior of Structures Composed of Composite Materials, ed. KluwerAcademic 2002.
• Kelly, J., Earthquake-Resistant Design with Rubber. Springer-Verlag, 1993.
• V.M. Malhotra and N.J. Carino, Handbook on NDT of Concrete. 2nd edition, CRC Press, 2003.
• Structural eurocodes, MC 2010 and Several standards of physical, mechanical and durability characterization of SM
• Specific bibliography of the Ph.D. student area (see case by case).