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~ ~ 2 5 6 Structural Design
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisites: CE114 Applied Mechanics, SM193
Mathematics
Instruction: lectures, tutorials
Assessment: examination 70%, assessed work
30%
Subject aims and description
This subject is intended to familiarise students with the
processes of design and checking of structural documentation,
with particular emphasis on the main provisions and underlying
principles of codes of practice for steel structures, timber
structures and for glazing in buildings.
References
AS1288 Glazing in Buildings
AS1 684 Timber Framing Code
AS1 720 Timber Engineering Code
AS4100 Steel Structures Code
~ ~ 2 6 1 Road Engineering
No. of hours per week: three hours
Assessment: examination 75%, assignments 25%
Subject aims
To outline the engineering science and civil engineering
practice of mads and streets including the construction
techniques normally employed.
Subject description
Road design: cross section types and function, diversion of
typical elements. Introduction to horizontal and vertical curves.
Design and coordination of horizontal and vertical alignment
using GEOCOMP software. Drainage of roads. Balancing
earthworks volumes by adjusting vertical geometry.
Road materials and tests: aggregates and bituminous
materials, theory of compaction, theory of stabilisation.
Traffic engineering: basic traffic studies, analysis of speed and
travel time and delay studies, traffic control devices.
Construction of roads: including types and use of machines,
clearing, ripping, earthmoving, compaction, trimming,
bituminous surfacing, stabilisation, erosion control. Field
control of compaction and field tests of density. Production and
efficiency in earthmoving.
Practical work: Appropriate laboratory tests to support the
theoretical content. Computer classes in road design.
~ ~ 2 7 6 Construction
No. of hours per week: five hours in first semester,
three hours in second semester
Prerequisite: CE173 Construction
Instruction: lectures, tutorials, drafting classes,
field work
Assessment: examination 70%, diary, reports,
research projects, folio of work 30%
Subject aims and description
This subiect is designed to give students an understanding of
the aeneral orincioles and details of buildings with loadbeaing
walis up to three storeys and singlestorey, wide span
structures with framed or load-bearing walls, and to expose
the students to architectural and engineering drafting related
to buildings.
References
Brickwork Code
Building Code ofAustralia 1990, 2nd edn, Canberra, Australian
Uniform Building Regulations Co-ordinating Council, 1990
Concrete Code
Ferguson. B.J. Reinforcement Detailing Handbook for Reinforced and
Pre-stressed Concrete: Based Upon the Australian Concrete Structures
Standard AS3600- 1988, Sydney, Concrete Institute of Australia, 1988
Trade Catalogues
~ ~ 2 7 7 Temporary Structures
No. of hours per week: three hours for two
semesters
Prerequisite: CE173 Construction
Instruction: lectures, tutorials, practical work, field
work
Assessment: external examinations in Scaffolding
Inspections A and B. Satisfactory completion of
practical work and assignments
Subject aims and description
This subject is designed to give students an understanding of
the general principles, structural details of scaffolding,
falsework and formwork.
The subject is made up of three major sections:
Part A Scaffolding A
Part B Scaffolding B
Part A and B cover: types of scaffolding systems, their erection
and use. The Scaffolding Act 1971 and statutory rules and
their intertpretation. Practical erection of scaffolding. Safety in
the use of scaffolding.
Part C Formwork and false work
This section covers the temporary structures used in the
construction of buildings.
Textbooks
Scaffolding Act 1971
Scaffolding Regulations 1974
References
Formwork Code
Scaffolding Code
~ ~ 2 8 1 Geomechanics
No. of hours per week: three hours for two
semesters
Assessment: field and practical work, mapping
30%, examinations 70%
Subject aims and description
This subiect aims to develor, an understandina of the
fundamental principles of geology and soil mechanics, and
apply these to simple engineering problems.
Geology; Significance of geology in civil engineering.
Principles of mineralogy and petrology. Structural geology
including deformed rocks. Geomorphology including ground
water and weathering. Victorian stratigraphy. Engineering
geology including site investigation. Practical and field work
including mineral and rock identification, geological mapping,
excursions.