Utilização do FTOOL como ferramenta de aprendizado do comportamento de estruturas

Abstract

Currently the computer is a tool widely used in education. This broad membership is justified by multiple resources that this tool offers the established method of teaching. This paper discusses the use of the educational program FTOOL as a learning tool of the structural behavior. The objective of this research is to explore the program’s general characteristics and its interaction with students and to present the features that this program offers to complement and assist the study in disciplines related to the implementation methods of structural analysis. The survey consists of survey data with a sample of fourth grader’s Course of Civil Engineering of the University of Mato Grosso that kindly agreed to try FTOOL’s use then exposed for their opinions regarding the questions raised throughout the analysis of the program. The results confirmed these hypotheses showing that the FTOOL is a tool that provides useful resources for learning of the structural behavior and that this utility has promoted the construction of a good concept and great acceptance of the program among students of the course.