1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Technology
(Building Surveying)
0 bjectives
To familiarise students with the relevant codes of practice
for concrete structures and for masonry structures.
Content
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.
Recommended reading
AS3600 Concrete Structures Code
AS3700 Masonry Code
CE461 Transport Engineering
7 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: examination 80%, assignment 20%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Civil)
Objectives
To enable students to become proficient in the areas of
traffic engineering, flexible pavement design, and road
geometry.
Content
Theory
Traffic engineering design, analysis and presentation of
results for traffic surveys. Design of at-grade intersections.
Flexible pavements principles, mechanistic modelling, and
structural design. Design of sprayed seal, design of asphalt
mixes, reseal design.
Road geometry speed parameters, sight distance, horizontal
transition curves, vertical Curves, auxiliary lanes, overtaking
provision.
Practical work and field experience
One traffic survey and its analysis.
Computer analysis of pavement performance.
CE470 Services
5 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: MM269 Services Instruction: lectures, field
ercumbm Axsmww examination W?, d assecsed 40%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Technology
(Building Surveying)
Content
This subject deals 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 formulas, minor
losses, pump selection.
Recommended reading
Anderson, B., The Solar Home Book Heating, Cooling and
Designing with the Sun. Harrisville, New Hampshire, 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. ASHRAE Handbooks. (Fundamentals, Systems,
~~ilication and Equipment volumk), latest editions, 1985
Hall, F., Building Sm'ces and Equipment. London, Longman, 1976
Relevant Australian Standards and Codes of Practice
CE476 Construction Engineering
(Elective)
8 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: assignments 5O%, verbal presentations 50%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Civil)
Objectives
To introduce students to engineering practice in a range of
construction activities.
Content
Excavation excavation plant, drilling equipment,
blasting rock, setting out of open excavations, support
of open excavations.
Road construction operations in road construction,
quality control, plant output and selection, quarry
operation, stabilisation of subgrades, roller compacted
pavement, block pavement, geotextiles, layout of road
works, administration of road works.
Concrete production, delivery and inspection, crushed
aggregate and sand plant, concreting plant, delivery
systems, site inspection and quality control, formwork,
curing, cold and hot weather concreting, shotcrete,
precast concrete.
Foundation construction dewatering, ground anchors,
underpinning and shoring, footing and slab
construction.
Bridge construction methods for reinforced and
prestressed concrete bridges, segmental bridge
construction, girder launched construction.
CE477A Construction
7 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: CE276 Construction Instruction: lectures,
site inspections Assessment: examination 60%, rreports 40%
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Technology
(Building Surveying)
Objectives
To give students an appreciation of the general principles
and structural details for multi-storey structures.
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