(444) LEARNING ADVANTAGES OF NEW ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES IN SMARTPHONES

摘要

The aim of this article is to highlight the teaching capabilities that a tool developed for smartphonesand the cloud has in building structures analysis.Today the society is in constant contact with new technologies. Students have developed a greatcapacity for interaction with mobile technologies, especially visually. Therefore, we can use theseskills to teach a subject or a few concepts, physical in our case.The matrix analysis of structures is very complex and laborious because their terms are matrices thatcan have a large size. Now any Smartphone is capable of handling these operations with agility.The presented application is developed on the platform Mathstud.io, of symbolic math, and allows itsuse in the cloud through a web page, in the iOS system of Apple and in Android. In this way, studentscan access the application anywhere, anytime.This application uses the matrix method to calculate structures. It consists of a highly interactiveapplication with which the students can see diagrams of the structure, its deformed configuration andthe symbolic level equations that govern it. This immediacy in operations allows them to test thestructures and learning through play, and gradually understand one of the most complex concepts ofstructural analysis, boundary conditions, both for structure and element.This teaching experience is ongoing, but notes that the student collects the concepts in a very naturaland smooth way. The learning curve would otherwise be very stepped for this complex subject.