1993 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Practice
Exercises in prestressed concrete, steel portal frame and masonry
design.
Use will be made of computer software where appropriate.
CE416
Structural Engineering
(Elective)
Four hours per week for one semester
Method of Assessment: Assignments 100%
Subject aims
TO introduce topics in structural engineering analysis and
design with a particular emphasis on computer application.
Subject description
Structural dynamics: free and forced vibrations of single and multidegree
of freedom systems.
Introduction to the finite element method: general formulation of an
element stiffness matrix; the constant strain triangle and higher order
elements.
Plastic analysis and design of multi-storey frames.
Prestressed concrete: advanced topics, end anchorages, partial
prestressing.
Structural design with composite, cold formed steel and aluminium
sections.
CE422 Urban Planning
Two hours per week for one semester
Subject aims and description
Afinal-year subject in the Diploma in Building Surveying, which further
develops students' understanding of the planning process.
Planning law: acts and legislation governing town planning.
Planning appeals: preparation for an appeal and participation in the
appeals system.
Urban landscaping concepts relating to permit applications.
Possible developments of the approval of permits (BADAC and Bains
Reports).
CE431
Water Engineering
Two hours per week for one semester
Method of Assessment: Examination 70%, Assignments
20%, Laboratory work 10%
Subject aims
To enable students to apply principles of hydraulics to the design of
water engineering systems.
Subject description
Theory
Water supplies: quantity and pressure requirements, supply mains,
balancing storage, reticulation, fire services.
Sewerage reticulation: estimation of flow rates, hydraulic principles,
design of sewers.
Stonnwater drainage: urban drainage systems, design using the
Rational method and hydraulic grade line, stormwater detention,
pumped storage systems.
Water quality: parameters, criteria, types and source of pollution.
Laboratory work
Water quality experiments to demonstrate:
(a) the meaning of key waterquality parameters
(b) simple procedures suited to field measurement and monitoring.
Hydraulic experiments to demonstrate the performance of stormwater
Structures.
CE452 Structural Design
Four hours per week for one semester
Subject aims and description
A final-year subject in the Diploma in Building Surveying designed
to familiarise students with the relevant codes of practice for concrete
and masonry structures and to highlight important design requirements
by considering selected case histories of structural failures.
Discussion of the major regulations and their underlying principles
for cedes and regulations for the following:
Concrete structures, structural brickwork, prestressed concrete.
Structural failures: brief case histories chosen to illustrate design
criteria.
Practical work: checking of selected structural design.
CE454 Structural Design
Faculty of Engineering
Four hours per week for one semester
Prerequisite: CE256 Structural Design
Method of Teachina: Lectures. tutorials
Method of Assesshent: ~xamination 60%, Assessed
work 40%
Subject aims and description
A final-year subject of the Degree of Building Surveying, designed to
familiarise students with the relevant codes of practice for concrete
structures and for masonry structures.
The main topics covered are structural design: loads on structures.
Analysis method. Design methods. Steps in the checking of structural
design. Checks of structural drawings - an overview.
Concrete structures code. Masonry code.
References
AS3600 Concrete Structures Code
AS3700 Masonry ~o~~
CE461
Transport Engineering
Three hours per week for one semester
Method of Assessment
Examination 80%, Assignment 20%
Subject aims
To enable students to become proficient in the areas of traffic
engineering, flexible pavement design, and road geometry.
Subject description
Theory
Traffic engineering: design, analysis and presentation of results for
twelve types of traffic su~eys.,Highway capacity, uncontrolled capacity,
saturation flow for s~gnallsed ~ntersections (no opposite turns). Design
of atqrade - intersections.
Flexible pavements: principles, mechanistic modelling, and structural
design. Design of sprayed seal, design of asphalt mixes.
Road geometry: speed parameters, sight distance, horizontal curves,
vertical curves, auxiliary lanes.
Practical work and field experience
One traffic survey and its analysis.
Two hours per week for one semester
Prerequisite: MM269 Services
Method of Teaching: Lectures, field excursions
Method of Assessment: Examination 60%, Assessed
work 40%
A final-year subject of the Degree of Building Surveying dealing with
specialist services encountered in commercial and office buildings.
The following services are covered: air conditioning, fire sprinklers,
electrical services, specialist services, vertical systems: lifts and
escalators. And in the area of drainage hydrology: surface and
subsurface drainage: elements of hydrology, applications to roof and
site drainage. Groundwater. Hydraulics of pressure conduits: total
energy line, hydrants hydraulic grade line, energy components,
graphical representation, pipe friction formulae, minor losses, pump
selection.
References
Anderson. B. The Solar Home Book. Harrisville. New Ham~shire:
Cheshire Books, 1976
Andrews, F.R. Building Mechanical Systems. 2nd edn, New York:
McGraw-Hill. 1977
American society of Heating. Refrigerating and Air Conditioning
Engineers. ASHREA Handbooks. (Fundamentals, Systems, Application
and Equipment volumes), latest editions, 1985
Hall, F. Building Services and Equipment. London: Longman, 1976
Relevant Australian Standards and Codes of Practice
CE474
Building Structures
Three hours per week for one semester
Subject aims and descri tion
A final-year subject in the DipPoma of Building Surveying, designed
to extend students' knowledae of structural behaviour and construction
and demolition techniques,-and to give them an appreciation of storm
water drainage.
Structural systems: principles of structural action and methods of construction
for precast and prefabricated structures, shells, folded-plate
structures, cable and membrane structures, air-inflated structures,
highrise post-tensioned structures, etc.
Cranes and lifting devices.