1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

CE589 Lightly Loaded Structures on Expansive
Soils
10 credit points 4.5 hours per week Hawthorn
Instruction: lectures, laborato y sessions, field inspections *
Assessment: examination JO%, assignment 30%, talk 20%
Prerequisites: CE488 Geomechanics and Structures
Objectives
To enable the student to understand the behaviour of
expansive soils and their effect on lightly loaded structures
supported by them. The student will also be introduced to
passive and active intervention and rehabilitation systems.
Content
Mineralogy of expansive clay soils; distribution of expansive
soils in Melbourne and Victoria; effect of expansive soils on
structures such as low rise buildings, roads and pipelines;
surface movement related to season, climate and drought;
moisture change in unsaturated soils; soil suction and soil
movement; gilgai formation; variability of clay soils at the
macro level; effect of depth of clay; effect of the depth of the
water table; effect of the presence of trees on soil movement;
moisture barriers; lime flyash barriers; moisture recharge
and active moisture stabilisation methods; foundations ior
structures in expansive soils.
Recommended reading
Das, B.M. Principles of Geotechnicd Engineering. 3rd edn, PWS,
Boston, 1994
Das, B.M. Advanced Soil Mechanics. McGraw-Hill, 1985
Tomlinson, M.J. Foundation Design and Construction. 6th edn,
Longman Scientific and Technical, 1994
Leeper, G.W., Uren, N.C. Soil Science. 5th edn, Melbourne
University Press, 1993
HMSO. Soil Mechanics for Road Engmeers. HMSO, 8th
impression, 1968
CE590 Civil Engineering Management 2
10 credit points 4.5 hours per week Hawthorn
Instruction: lectures, seminars and project work Assessment:
assignments and presentations 70%, class tests 30%
Prerequisites: CE599 Civil Enginewing Management I
A fifth year subject in the Bachelor of Civil Engineering
Objectives
To demonstrate the practice of engineering management
throughout the life cycle of civil engineering systems in both
public and private enterprise.
Content
The role and impact of engineers in society; nature of
Australian engineering organisations; professional societies
and professional ethics; professional development.
Research and development: processes of innovation and
creative attitudes; forecasting technological change;
identifying opportunities.
Corporate plans: mission objectives and strategies;
congruence of organisation and environment; strategic
planning; business operations, profit and competition;
management information systems.
Finance of engineering operations: long term planning;
sources of funds; equity and debt, venture capital; taxation;
budgeting for capital and recurrent expenditure.
Project management: project planning and organisation
team building; materials management; overheads; contract
planning and control; contract documentation; assessment
of tenders; progress payments; arbitration.
Operations and maintenance of engineering systems:
depreciation as a budget element; timing of maintenance
intervention; economic life of systems.
Recommended reading
Peters and Waterman. In Search ofExcellence. Harper and Row,
Sydney, 1982
Mukhi, Hampton and Barnwell. Australian Management.
McGraw-Hill, Sydney, 1988
Samson (Ed.). Managementfor Engineers. Longman-Cheshire,
Melbourne, 1989
National Committee on Construction Engineering. Guidelines for
Successful Engineering Construction. The Institution of Engineers,
Australia, Canberra, 1994 ,--
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8 credit points 5 hours per week Hawthorn ~ssessmknt:
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class tests 35%. assimments 65%
This is a fifth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Civil)
Obiedives
To make students aware of the role of the engineer in
society and of effects of man on the environment.
To extend basic management concepts introduced earlier in
the course into specific areas of management practice, and to
give students a background into some common and
important construction practices.
Content
The engineer and society
The role of the engineer in society, professional institutions,
professional ethics.
Environmental engineering
Global ecology, conservation versus development,
sustainable use of renewable resources. control of use of
non-renewable resources, values of natural systems,
wilderness and landscape, environmental impact assessment,
environmental rehabilitation.
Project management
Project management initiation of projects, feasibility studies.
Contract documentation conditions of contract, bonds,
specifications, schedule of quantities, contract drawings.
Tendering procedures estimating, cash flow forecasting.
Construction control critical path methods, cost control,
construction documentation, claims, partial and final
certificates.
Industrial relations trade unions, negotiations, arbitration
and conciliation.
Contract disputes the role of the arbitrator, legal procedures,
procedures for obtaining planning and building approval,
permits, certification.
Formwork design and certification of formwork.
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