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CIV2503 Structural Design I

Semester 2, 2023 Online
Units : 1
School or Department : School of Engineering
Grading basis : Graded
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Requisites

Pre-requisite: (ENG1100 and MEC2402) or (ENG1100 and CIV1501 for students enrolled in one of the following: BETC Infrastructure Management major or BENS Infrastructure Management Engineering major) or Students must be enrolled in: GCEN or GEPR

Overview

Structural design is concerned with buildings and other structures such as bridges. A structural design engineer is required to make decisions about how buildings and other structures will be built such that they will perform satisfactorily and will not rapidly deteriorate, deflect excessively or in the worst event, collapse. The design engineer makes decisions about the general arrangement of the structural members, the materials of which they are made, their size and how they are connected. Structural designers make use of information about materials and construction processes together with various analytical techniques to assist them in making the correct decisions about how structures should be built. In pre-requisite courses students will have already acquired some of this knowledge. In particular, they have learnt how to analyse structures to determine such things as bending moments, deflections and stresses. In this course they will revise, consolidate and extend these topics and use them to assist in the design of structures. The course concentrates on estimating the loads which a structure may be required to carry, designing individual members in steel and timber. Specific code provisions applicable to design of timber and steel together with load estimation are discussed in detail in this course.

Course learning outcomes

The course objectives define the student learning outcomes for a course. On completion of this course, students should be able to:

  1. present defining diagrams and associated discussions and/or calculations relating to structural design in a manner that communicates the logic of the underlying phenomena and processes;
  2. map out the major steps in the total design process;
  3. extract separable structural elements from simple buildings and model the supports, restraints, continuity and loading conditions on such elements in terms of line load diagrams;
  4. utilise approximate analysis techniques to determine design load effects on indeterminate structures;
  5. explain the logic behind, and apply limit state design;
  6. use relevant industry standards to evaluate structural engineering loads;
  7. determine approximate member sizes in steel and timber for simple situations;
  8. differentiate the material characteristics of different types of timber based on testing result and also from those of steel, and determine timber member sizes to industry standards for tension elements, beams and columns;
  9. determine member sizes to industry standards for structural steel tension elements, pure compression elements, and beams;
  10. explain nominated aspects of relevant national building codes.

Topics

Description Weighting(%)
1. Total design process 5.00
2. Structural modelling 5.00
3. Design methods 10.00
4. Use of AS1170 15.00
5. Approximate methods 10.00
6. Timber engineering and design 30.00
7. Steel design 25.00

Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed

You are required to download the following Australian Standards from the UniSQ library: AS1170.0, AS1170.1, AS1170.2, AS4100 and AS1720.1. (Detailed instruction on how to download these Australian Standards will be available in the Getting Started section in the 精东传媒appDesk).

Student workload expectations

To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.

Assessment details

Approach Type Description Group
Assessment
Weighting (%) Course learning outcomes
Assignments Written Problem Solving No 20 1,3,4,5,6,10
Assignments Design Design No 40 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Examinations Non-invigilated Time limited online examinatn No 40 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Date printed 9 February 2024