+ 60 ECTS Credits

Master´s Degree in Structural Analysis and Calculation + 60 ECTS Credits

Master´s Degree in Structural Analysis and Calculation + 60 ECTS Credits

Do you want to update your design and structural calculation skills for civil works? Master advanced analysis methods for dimensioning, materials, and safe, efficient structural solutions.

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Master´s Degree in Structural Analysis and Calculation + 60 ECTS Credits

Verifiable program data for this master's degree

  • 60 ECTS Credits
  • Faculty of Geotecnia y Cimentaciones
  • Internships at real companies
  • STRUCTURALIA qualification

What will you achieve by completing this master's degree?

Advanced structural analysis

Strengthen your ability to perform tensional analysis and apply actions and efforts to real structural scenarios.

Design and dimensioning

Learn to dimension foundations, vaults, complex structures, screens, and walls using conventional and advanced methods.

Materials mastery

Study steel, reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete, plus wood, focusing on behavior, properties, and applications.

Flexion, cortante, pandeo

Deepen key concepts such as bending, shear, and buckling, linking them to high-complexity structural typologies.

Course curriculum

9 modules covering everything from advanced structural analysis to design and calculation for foundations, vaults, screens, walls, and complex structures. Click on each module to see the full content.

01

Module 1. Structural Calculations

Didactic Unit 1. Types Of Structures And Connections

  • Typology of structures
  • Typology of structures according to their behaviour
  • Typology of structures according to their deformation
  • Types of support for structures: joints, embedments and slides
  • Types of connections in steel and concrete structures

Didactic Unit 2. Stress Analysis: Actions And Stresses

  • Actions on structures
  • Ultimate limit state and service limit state
  • Calculation combinations
  • Stresses in structures
  • Structural design methods

Didactic Unit 3. Flexure, Shear, Buckling

  • Flexural, shear and flexural compression design
  • Types of instabilities and their solution
  • Compression buckling
  • Lateral buckling
  • Denting, profiles to be reinforced, criteria and solutions

Didactic Unit 4. Application Of Fundamental Concepts

  • Application of structural concepts
  • Calculation of deformations
  • Calculation of a beam
  • Calculation of an abutment
  • Calculation of a gantry
02

Module 2. Construction Materials

Didactic Unit 1. Steel In Construction

  • Introduction: manufacture and typology
  • Steel for concrete
  • Types of structural steels
  • Galvanised steel
  • Aluminium

Didactic Unit 2. Concrete In Construction

  • Types of concrete. Special concretes
  • Mechanical properties of concrete
  • Dimensioning of shallow foundations
  • Dimensioning of short brackets
  • Cracking in reinforced concrete

Didactic Unit 3. Wood In Construction

  • Wood: properties and products for construction
  • Calculation of wooden dowel connections (I): dowels
  • Calculation of dowel-type wood connections (II): staples, bolts, dowels and lag bolts
  • Calculation of carpenter's joints: boltless and bolted connections
  • Dimensioning of timber in fire situation

Didactic Unit 4. Other Materials And Sustainability

  • Building works. Blocks and bricks. Typologies
  • Basis of calculation of a masonry wall
  • Glass. Typologies. Dimensioning
  • Synthetic polymers. Typologies. Applications
  • Reinforcement of structural elements with fibre material
03

Module 3. Calculation Of Typical Civil Engineering Structures

Didactic Unit 1. Prestressed Concrete

  • Introduction.
  • Materials.
  • Tensioning force. Instantaneous prestressing losses.
  • Deferred prestressing losses.
  • Calculation of prestressing forces in hyperstatic structures.

Didactic Unit 2. Subway Or Underground Works

  • Subway works (I). Typologies
  • Subway works (II). Acting loads
  • Cylindrical sheets. Concepts and behaviour.
  • Pre-dimensioning of cylindrical sheets (I). Concept and calculation.
  • Pre-dimensioning of cylindrical sheets (II). Spandrels and edge beams.

Didactic Unit 3. Concrete Tanks

  • Calculation elements in tanks.
  • Design elements in tanks. Principles of calculation of rectangular reinforced concrete tanks.
  • Example of a calculation of the wall of a rectangular reinforced concrete tank.
  • Principles of calculation of cylindrical reinforced concrete tanks.
  • Principles for the analysis of the floor of a reinforced concrete tank. Example of calculation of the floor of a rectangular reinforced concrete tank.

Didactic Unit 4. Metal Tanks

  • Introduction. Design codes.
  • Types of tanks. Materials, joints and welds.
  • Design and calculation. Background and body.
  • Calculation of fixed ceilings.
  • Calculation by gauge pressure.
04

Module 4. Surface Foundations

Didactic Unit 1. Determinants And Study Of Failure Modes

  • Introduction and design determinants
  • Stress distributions under rigid footings
  • Verification of ultimate limit state failure modes (other than subsidence)
  • Sinking and bearing capacity
  • Correction factors for the general formula

Didactic Unit 2. Additional Notes On Bearing Capacity

  • Some particular cases of bearing capacity
  • Sinking pressure from in-situ tests
  • Particular soil considerations
  • Bearing capacity in rock (I)
  • Bearing capacity in rock (II)

Didactic Unit 3. Serviceability Limit States

  • Definitions and concepts
  • Stress distributions in the soil
  • Estimation of settlement in granular soils
  • Estimation of settlement in cohesive soils
  • Other methods and other deformations

Didactic Unit 4. Slabs, Shafts, Dynamic Aspects And Offshore Environment

  • Slabs
  • Semi-deep foundations or foundation pits
  • Dynamic aspects. Foundations for vibrating machinery
  • Dynamic aspects. Foundations in seismic zones and soil properties.
  • Surface foundations in the maritime and offshore fields
05

Module 5. Deep Foundations. Pilots

Didactic Unit 1. Basic Concepts And Column Piles In Soils

  • Typology of deep foundations
  • Definitions
  • Design basis for deep foundations
  • Basic formulation
  • Calculation of soil resistance to vertical actions in soils
  • Tip resistance in granular soils.
  • Analytical Solutions Tip resistance in cohesive soils
  • Analytical solutions Tip resistance in soils by in-situ testing

Didactic Unit 2. Floating Piles In Soils, Rock Piles And Pile Groups

  • Shaft resistance in granular soils
  • Analytical solutions Shaft strength in cohesive soils
  • Analytical solutions Shaft strength in soils by in-situ testing
  • Resistance of the ground against vertical actions on rocks Resistance of a pile group

Didactic Unit 3. Working Loads And Seating In Piles

  • Safety against subsidence
  • Safety coefficient
  • Structural stop on piles Seats on piles
  • Pile Pullout Resistance Pile Driving Formulas

Didactic Unit 4. Choice Of Piles And Infrequent Situations

  • Piles subjected to lateral loads Negative pile friction Negative pile friction
  • Pile load tests
  • Selecting the pile type
  • Geotechnical calculation of micropiles
06

Module 6. Earth Pressures And Earth Retaining Structures

Didactic Unit 1. Theory

  • Classical Theory of Earth Thrusts (I).Coulomb
  • Classical Theory of Earth Thrust (II) Rankine, Terzaghi
  • Classical earth thrust theory (III). Coefficient of earth thrust.
  • Classical earth thrust theory (IV). Winkler model
  • Other calculation methods: Numerical models and equivalent fluid theory.
  • Theory. Seismic considerations.

Didactic Unit 2. Rigid Walls

  • Gravity walls
  • Reinforced earth walls
  • Breakwater walls
  • Masonry walls, prefabricated segmental walls, Berlin wall.

Didactic Unit 3. Flexible Walls

  • Gabion walls and screen walls
  • Reinforced earth walls
  • Continuous screens
  • Pile screens
  • Anchorages on screens
  • Other excavations: Trenching. Sheet piles

Didactic Unit 4. Design Considerations

  • Construction procedures.
  • Ground movements and monitoring.
  • Problem areas
  • Selection of cross-sections and filtration network.
07

Module 7. Seismicity And Seismic-resistant Design

Didactic Unit 1. Introduction And Characterisation Of Seismic Action

  • What is an earthquake. Definition. Causes and effects. Regions of high seismicity in the world.
  • Characterisation of seismic action. Concept of PGA. Earthquake levels, return periods and seismic hazard curves.
  • Definition of response spectra. Local geology and amplification factors Liquefaction
  • Coefficients of importance
  • Consideration of seismic action in the project. Vertical seismic action, associated mass, combination of seismic action.

Didactic Unit 2. Methods Of Analysis

  • Introduction to modal analysis
  • Seismic-resistant design methodology. Step-by-step guide
  • Static linear analysis (i). Equivalent lateral force method
  • Dynamic linear analysis (ii). Spectral and modal-spectral analysis
  • Non-linear analysis. Pushover analysis and time history method with accelerograms (time history).

Didactic Unit 3. Seismic-resistant Design. Methodology And Requirements

  • Basic design criteria in seismic zones
  • Ductility. Behavioural factors
  • Ductile design requirements for reinforced concrete
  • Ductile design requirements for steel structures
  • Displacement assessment. Seismic joints and separation of adjoining structures.
  • Gravity and containment structures. Pseudo-static analysis: seismic design and thrust formulation.
  • Seismic design strategy. Dissipate vs Isolate

Didactic Unit 4. Application. Case Studies

  • Example of application. Structural design of an earth retaining wall.
  • Example of application. Design of a reinforced concrete building. Application of the spectral modal method
  • Bibliography, reference standards and guidelines
08

Module 8. Design Of Industrial Buildings And High-rise Buildings

Didactic Unit 1. Design Of Industrial Buildings (i)

  • The industrial building. Constituent elements. Typologies
  • Foundations
  • Porticos (I). Typology
  • Gantries (II). Calculation
  • Example of the calculation of a gabled portal frame

Didactic Unit 2. Design Of Industrial Buildings (ii)

  • Bracing systems. Typologies
  • Roof and façade purlins. Design and calculation
  • Roof and façade bracing. Practical examples
  • Overhead travelling cranes (I). Introduction
  • Bridge cranes (II). Actions and calculation

Didactic Unit 3. Calculation And Design Of High-rise Buildings (i)

  • High-rise buildings. Introduction. General criteria
  • Porticoed systems
  • Rigid core structure
  • Tubular structure
  • Stiffening systems for lateral stability

Didactic Unit 4. Calculation And Design Of High-rise Buildings (ii)

  • Building portals
  • Seismic design of buildings (I). Simplified method
  • Seismic design of buildings (II). Example of application
  • Wind study
  • Influence of axial deformations
09

Module 9. Rehabilitation Of Structures

Didactic Unit 1. Fundamental Concepts

  • Fundamental concepts
  • Seat cracks
  • Crack control
  • Pathologies in reinforced concrete structures
  • Wood pathologies

Didactic Unit 2. Pathologies In Building Elements

  • Introduction
  • Pathologies in roofs. General aspects
  • Pathologies in roofs according to their typologies
  • Façade pathologies
  • Pathologies in pillars and slabs

Didactic Unit 3. Bridge Pathology

  • Foundation pathologies
  • Pathologies in the substructure
  • Concrete bridge superstructure pathologies
  • Arch bridge superstructure pathologies
  • Pathologies in the superstructure of steel and composite bridges

Didactic Unit 4. Repairs And Reinforcements

  • Underpinning in shallow foundations
  • Repairs to concrete structures
  • Reinforcement in concrete structures
  • Detailed design of composite abutments
  • Therapeutics for dampness and water leaks

Teaching faculty

Teaching team with professional experience in Master´s Degree in Structural Analysis and Calculation + 60 ECTS Credits.

AR

Adrián Rodríguez Porres

Faculty of Gestión de Proyectos en Arquitectura

metodología BIM

VG

Vidal Gascón Culebras

Inteligencia Artificial aplicada

JM

Julia Molina Virués

Faculty of Gestión de Proyectos en Arquitectura

arquitectura sostenible

Charo Rey Zabalza

Charo Rey Zabalza

Faculty of Medioambiente y Sostenibilidad

economía circular

ÁS

Ángel Sanz Bernabé

control de calidad

Isabella Sánchez Bermúdez

Isabella Sánchez Bermúdez

Faculty of Dirección de Proyectos e Innovación Tecnológica

comunicación estratégica

Rogelio Delgado Mingorance

Rogelio Delgado Mingorance

Faculty of Ingeniería Industrial

gestión y dirección de proyectos

Miguel Ángel Aparicio Jiménez

Miguel Ángel Aparicio Jiménez

What jobs could you get?

With this master's degree you could apply for roles such as:

  • Structural projects director
  • Chief structural calculation engineer
  • Senior structures consultant
  • Engineering studies specialist
  • Civil works technical lead
  • Design and calculation project lead

Methodology

Our teaching methodology

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Learn whenever you want

Progress at your own pace, from wherever you are,
with close support.

Realistic

The EDUCA LXP methodology avoids excessively theoretical knowledge and inefficient practical methods. The combination of constantly updated content with personalized guidance throughout the learning process makes EDUCA LXP a unique methodology.

Student First

The EDUCA LXP methodology and EDUCA EDTECH Group's training place the student at the center of the learning experience, drawing on their feedback. Their feedback drives our continuous improvement.

Artificial Intelligence

Personalized learning would not be possible without a precise combination of academic experience, technology research, and Artificial Intelligence. That is why we rely on in-house AI tools, tailored to each school in the group.

Active industry professionals

Our teaching team, besides being specialists in their field, has specific training in the technology tools that make up the EDUCA EDTECH ecosystem.

Rankings and recognitions

Assessed by independent online higher-education organizations.

Organization of American States (OAS)

Since 2010, Structuralia has run a scholarship program for master's degrees in Spanish and English together with the Organization of American States (OAS), aimed at outstanding professionals from the Americas as part of the Partnerships for Education and Training Program (PAEC), which has already benefited more than 3,500 students from the region.

APICE

Structuralia and the Pan-American Association of Educational Credit Institutions (APICE) offer a specialized training scholarship program for professionals from Latin America and the Caribbean in master's degrees specialized in the STEM sector.

Educa Edtech

The Educa Edtech Foundation was created to foster personal and professional growth while championing knowledge transfer as a way to change the world, overseeing the rollout of solutions and granting aid to those who deserve it.

Financial Magazine

This outlet's 2025 Ranking has included up to 10 Structuralia master's programs across several categories, among them: Data Science, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Urban Planning, Energy and the Environment.

Mundo Posgrado

In the latest edition of its regular annual rankings, Structuralia's master's programs made the Top 10 best master's degrees in Spain in the Renewable Energy and Integrated Management Systems categories.

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