1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

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CE477C Foundation Systems L \ l m t ~ 4
7 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: CE276 Construction, CE283 Geomechanics
Instruction: lectures, laboratory work, field sccum'm
Assecm2at: mminution 60%, nports 40%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Technology
(Building Surveying)
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To ixtend students' knowledge in the area of geomechanics.
Content
The subject covers compaction process, compaction plant,
control of filled sites. Foundations bearing capacity,
settlement, footing design with particular emphasis on
residential and light industrial foundations. Excavations and
underpinning. Lateral earth pressure. Site investigations
methods, reports and their interpretation. Approval of
foundations regulations, responsibilities of various parties.
Soil behaviour in Melbourne.
Recommended reading
AS2870-1 Residential Footing Code Standards - Australia
Craig, R.F. Soil Mechanics, 5th edn, Chapman & Hall, 1995
Das, B.M., Principles of Geotechnical Enginening, 3rd edn, Boston,
PWS, 1994
Site Investigations Code
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CE478 Fire Technology YY~\L'~'".Q'
5 credit points (sems I & 2) 2 hours per deek (sems I & 2)
Hawthorn Prerequisites: CE256 Structural Design, CE114
Applied Mechanics, CE256 Structural Design, MM269 Services
Instruction: lectures, tutorials, field excursions Assessment:
examination 60%, assessed work 40%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Technology
(Building Surveying)
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This subject deals with the behaviour of fire in buildings,
familiarises students with fire services and develops students'
understanding of the behaviour of elements and structures
under fire.
Content
The subject covers causes of fire, products of fire, fire and
smoke development, material behaviour under fire, fire
loads and compartmentation. Fire and smoke detection and
control. Human behaviour, evacuation procedures.
Introduction to fire rated materials. Performance of
structural members and assem.blies under fire conditions.
Australian Fire Codes. Fire tests and their application.
Design of steel, concrete and timber members to resist fire.
Protection of penetrations.
Recommended reading
AS1530, Methods for Fire Tests on Building Matmals & Structure
ASl668, Mechanical Ventilation and Air Conditioning
Butcher, E.G., hipingfor Fire Safer Chichester, Wiley, 1983
Malhotra. Design of Fire Resisting Structures. Glasgow, Surrey
University Press, 1982
SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, Quincy, Mass.,
National Fire Protection Association. 1988
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CE481 Geomechanics Ea4 h 1
7 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn Assessment:
examination 70%. laboraton, 15%. assipnment 15%
This is a fourth year subjeciin thd ~acuhelor of Engineering
(Civil)
Obiedives
To enable students to design simple foundations considering
both soil shear strength and settlement characteristics, to
estimate the stability of soil slopes, and to apply the basic
principles of site investigation.
Content
Performance of shallow foundations including immediate
and consolidation settlement, bearing capacity for inclined
and eccentric loads, lightly loaded (residential) foundations.
Deep foundations including load capacity and settlement of
single piles and pile groups.
Slope stability slopes in cohesionless soils, cohesive soils,
total and effective stress analysis, method of slices, computer
analysis, use of stability charts, changes of slope stability
with time, methods of stabilising slopes.
Site investigation including planning, sampling methods,
insitu tests.
Recommended reading
AS1726-1981 SAA Site Investigation Code
AS2159-1995 Piling Code
AS2870-1986 Residential Slabs and Footings
Craig, R.F. Soil Mechanics, 5th edn, Chapman & Hall, 1995
Das, B.M., Principles of Geotechnical Engineering. 3rd edn, Boston,
PWS, 1994
CE488 Geomechanics and Structures
10 credit points 5 hours per week Hawthorn
Instruction: lectures, tutorials Assessmat: assignmat 30%,
examination 70% Prerequisites: CE217 Structural
Enginewing 1
A fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Civil Engineering
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To further develop an understanding of structural behaviour
and analysis techniques for skeletal structures.
To extend the knowledge of reinforced concrete design.
To enable students to choose the most suitable type, and to
size, individual and group pile foundations; to enable the
student to analyse slope stability and to understand seepage
through soil.
Content
Principles of structural mechanics theories: classification of
structures; the stiffness and flexibility methods of analysis in
principle.
Statically indeterminate structures: flexibility method of
analysis applied to beams, trusses and frames; moment
distribution method applied to frames; matrix analysis of
structures by the stiffness method; introduction to the finite
element method of structural analysis.
Reinforced concrete design: design and detailing of two-way
slabs supported along four edges, two way slab systems with
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