Aprendizagem Significativa e Ensino da Engenharia: O software DIMVISUAL como material potencialmente significativo para o estudo de peças submetidas a esforços axiais de compressão

Abstract

This article aims to provide an educational software for teaching discipline strength of materials specifically on axial stress. This work comes to the need to develop and generate tools to improve the teaching-learning process in engineering. The software DIMVISUAL has the basic problem of determination of the total area of steel and that each bar comprises a concrete column being requested by an external axial compressive loading. The system also presents a visual interface where you can see the threedimensional structure with their respective dimensions. The structure can be freely manipulated by the user andfacilitates the interpretation and analysis of results.

Index Terms - Meaningul learning, Virtual Reality, Strength of Materials