1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Signals saturation flow, calculation of signal timing, layout
of hardware, signal linking, traffic detection, filter turns,
layout of hardware.
Road materials properties of and tests for road building
materials, rheology of bitumens, skid resistance.
Railway engineering conventional railway track, track
design and geometry, track construction. Light rail design.
Water Engineering (28 hours)
Reservoir yield.
Potable water treatment methods, theory of sedimentation
and filtration.
Wastewater treatment and disposal methods and their
applications, loading rates.
CE415 Structural Engineering
11 credit points fi hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: examination JO%, assessment by consultation
30%, laboratory and assignments 20%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Civil)
d. Objectives
5 To further develop students' understanding of structural
U mechanics. To extend students' knowledge of the principles
of structural design in prestressed concrete and steel design.
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To introduce principles of masonry design. To provide
practice in the application of these principles.
Content
Theory
Stress analysis stress-strain relations and the general
equations of elasticity, plane strain and plane strain
problems, yield criteria (Tresca, Von Mises), torsion of open
cross sections.
Modelling of structures using finite element packages.
Influence lines.
Prestressed concrete analysis and design, including statically
indeterminate structures and losses of prestress.
Design of steel portal frames modelling, analysis and design
of elements and connections.
Masonry design plain and reinforced walls subject to vertical
and lateral loads.
Fire engineering fire loads and containment, performance of
structural materials. elements and systems under fire
conditions, methods of providing fire resistance.
Practice
Exercises in prestressed concrete, steel portal frame and
masonry design.
Use will be made of computer software where appropriate.
CE416 Structural Engineering (Elective)
8 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: assignments 100%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Civil)
0 b jectives
To introduce advanced topics in structural engineering
analysis and design with a particular emphasis on computer
application.
Content
Structural dynamics: free and forced vibrations of single
and multi-degree 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.
CE431 Water Engineering
li credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn Assessment:
examination 70%, assignments 20%, laboratory work 10%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Civil)
Obiectives
To enable students to apply principles of hydraulics to the
design of water engineering systems.
Content
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.
Stormwater 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:
the meaning of key water-quality parameters
simple procedures suited to field measurement and
monitoring.
Hydraulic experiments to demonstrate the performance of
stormwater structures.
CE454 Structural Design
8 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: CE256 Structural Design Instruction:
lectures, tutorials Assessment: examination 60%, assessed
work 40%