Structural Engineering Workshop: Experiments In The Structural Engineering Curriculum

工程-土木（54）该项目将一系列大规模实验纳入高级本科结构工程课程，并进行练习，以增强研究生和本科课程之间的连续性。虽然文献描述了几个成功的努力，把物理实验到结构工程课程，结构工程研讨会将推进这种方法在两个重要方面：首先，大多数以前的项目仅限于说明结构分析的概念，但结构工程研讨会强调失效模式的真实的结构部件和系统。这一点很重要，因为许多设计程序都是为了引导我们走向某些故障模式，而远离其他故障模式，但学生们很难理解为什么大多数学生从来没有机会看到（听到和触摸！）过度加强梁的脆性破坏和不足加强梁的延性破坏之间的差异。其次，虽然文献中报道的项目仅限于一门特定课程的范围，但结构工程研讨会将使用实验作为一种手段，将工程项目中的一系列课程的活动整合起来。不同年级和专业的学生将参与计划和制作测试样本，测试和结果分析。让学生有机会在整个学术课程中重温实验，每次从不同课程的角度来看，将有助于他们理解材料/组件行为，施工方法和结构设计之间的关键联系。

Engineering - Civil (54)The projects adapts a series of large-scale experiments into the advanced undergraduate structural engineering courses, and exercises to enhance continuity between graduate and undergraduate courses. Although the literature describes several successful efforts to bring physical experiments into structural engineering courses, the Structural Engineering Workshop is going to advance this methodology in two important ways: First, most previous projects were limited to illustrating structural analysis concepts, but the Structural Engineering Workshop emphasizes failure modes of real structural components and systems. This is important because many design procedures are meant to steer us toward some failure modes and away from others, but it is difficult for students to appreciate why most students never get the chance to see (and hear and touch!) the difference between the brittle failure of an over-reinforced beam and the ductile failure of an under-reinforced beam. Second, while projects reported in the literature were limited in scope to one particular course, the Structural Engineering Workshop is going to use the experiments as a means to integrate activities across a range of courses in an engineering program. Students of different years and specialties are going to participate in planning and production of test specimens, testing, and analysis of results. Giving students the opportunity to revisit the experiments throughout their academic programs, each time from the shifted viewpoint of a different course, is going to help them understand the critical links between material/component behavior, construction methods, and structural design.