1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

CE216 Structural Mechanics 1
10 credit points 4 hours per week Prerequisites: CE102
Engineering Design Assessment: assignments and
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examinations
This is a subject in the Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)
Objectives
To develop an understanding of structural and material
behaviour in statically determinate systems and to introduce
the use of computer packages in the analysis of structural
systems.
Content
Structural behaviour: modelling of structures, statical and
kinematic determinacy, stability of structural form. Loads
on structures, load paths.
Section properties: centroids, second moment of area,
principal axes, stress and strain distributions in beam
sections; elastic and plastic behaviour, elastic and plastic
section modulus. Composite sections.
Short columns; combined stresses, Mohr's stress circle, Euler
buckling and long column behaviour.
Statically determinate structures: analysis for reactions, shear
force, bending moment and axial force diagrams for beams
and frames; analysis of trusses. Deflection of beams; standard
formulae, use of principle of virtual forces for deflections in
beams.
Materials technology: characteristics, components and types
of steel, timber, masonry and concrete as a building material.
Performance characteristics relative to structural behaviour.
Design and testing of concrete mixes.
Computer applications: modelling and analysis of a range of
structures relevant to the course using available software.
Recommended reading
Schodeck, Daniel L., Structures. Regents/Prentice Hall, 1992
Hibbeler, R.C., Statics and Mechanics of Materials. Macmillan,
New York, 1993
Spiegel, L.& Limbrunner, G. F., Applied Statics and Strength of
Materials. Maxwell Macmillan, New York, 1991
Whitlow, R., Matm'als and Structures. Longrnan, 2nd edn, 1991
Moy, Stuart S.J., Plastic Methods for Steel and Concrete Structures.
Macmillan, 1989
CE217 Structural Engineering 1
10 credit points 4.5 hoursper week Prerequisites: CE216
Structural Mechanics 1
This is subject in the Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)
Objectives
To develop an understanding of the analysis and behaviour
of statically indeterminate beams and to introduce students
to the structural design process, including aspects of the
Loading code and the Concrete Structures Code.
Content
Statically indeterminate structures: development of the
slope deflection equations and introduction to matrix
analysis of beams. Moment distribution method for
continuous beams;
design philosophies: limit state and permissible stress
design; loading codes, design codes, design drawings,
planning and building permits;
concrete design: plain concrete, limit state design
requirements, durability and fire resistance; detailing of
reinforcement; design and detailing of beams and one
way slabs (flexure and shear), short columns, single and
strip footings and retaining walls;
computer applications: modelling, analysis and design of
a range of structures relevant to the course using
available software.
Recommended reading
Spencer, W.J., Fundamental Structural Analysis. Macmillan
Education. London, 1988
Coates, R.C., Coutie, M.G. and Kong F.K. Structural Analysis.
2nd edn, Surrey, Nelson, 1980
Warner, R.F., Rangan, B.V. and Hall, A.S. Reinforced Concrete.
3rd edn. 1989
~airhurJt, L., Design and Analysis of Concrete Structures. McGraw-
Hill, Sydney, 1990
~ttard; J., Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete - A Compendium of
Examples. 1995
Attard, J., and Fairhurst, L. Manual for the Design of Concrete
Structures. McGraw-Hill, Sydney, 1990
Standards Association of Australia. AS 1170.1 - Loading Code -
Part I: Dead and live loads and load combinations. Standards
Association of Australia, Sydney, 1989
Standards Association of Australia. AS3600 - Concrete Structures.
Standards Association of Australia, Sydney, 1994
CE237 Hydraulics
15 credit points 2.5 hours per week (sem. 1) and 4.5 hours
per week (sem. 2) 0 Hawthorn Prerequisites: CE102
Enginea'ng Design Assessment: assignmetns and
examination
This is a subject of the Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)
Obiectives
To teach students to apply fundamental laws of physics
to the flow of water, in order to understand and analyse
the steady flow of water through pipelines, channels,
and a range of hydraulic structures;
to improve students' abilities to communicate technical
information, by means of concise calculation and brief
reports;
td develop students' abilities to learn from text books
and technical notes.
Content
Hydrostatics: fluid properties; pressure and thrust;
buoyancy and stability of floating vessels.
Fluid flow: continuity, conservation of energy
(Bernoulli's equation), impulse-momentum.
Discharge control structures: orifices, orifice plate and
venturi meter, weirs, sluice gates.
Pipe flow: the Moody diagram; D'Arcy-Weisbach,
Colebrook-White and empirical pipe formulas.
Pipeline systems: series and parallel pipelines; equivalent
pipelines; branched systems; pumped systems; pipeline
networks.