1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

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CE576 Construction Engineering
(Major Elective)
9 credit points 5 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment; class test 40%, assignments 30%, verbal
presentation 30%
This is a fifth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Civil)
objective;
To develop students' knowledge of construction technology
and the construction industry.
Content
The construction industry organisation, economy and
opportunities, entrepreneurial construction activities;
plant output and performance of bulldozers, tractor
scrapers, excavators, truck cycles;
road and pavement construction. Quality assurance and
total quality managment in construction operations;
deteriorating assests; assessment, management and
remedial problems;
construction opportunities in the developing region of
S.E. Asia and China;
major projects in Australia;
o bridge construction steel, reinforced and prestressed
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concrete bridges, segmental and girder launched
1 construction;
piles types, selection of precast, insitu, or steel piling,
installation methods, load tests.
tunnelling soft ground and rock tunnelling, tunnelling
machines, tunnel linings, removal of excavated material,
inlet and outlet structures;
pipelines loads on precast and insitu pipelines due to
different methods of excavation and backfilling,
excavation and shoring, joints, laying techniques for
precast pipelines;
dams and embankments earth, rockfill and mass
concrete gravity dams and embankments, arch dams,
outlet works and spillways.
Recommended reading
Harris, F., Modern Construction Equipment and Methods.
Longman Scientific, 1989
Reiss, F., Project Mamgement Demystified Spon 1992
Shahin, M.Y., Pavement Management for Airports, Roads and
Parking Can. Chapman Hall 1994
Antill, J.M., Ryan, P.W.S., and Easton, G.R., Civil Engineering
Construction. 6th edn, McGraw-Hill 1988
CE582 Geomechanics (Minor Elective)
6 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: assignments/laborato?y work 100%
This is a fifth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Civil)
0 bjectives
To extend students' knowledge of geology and soil
mechanics and introduce them to rock mechanics and give
them an appreciation of the high level of experience and
'art' required to practice in the area of geomechanics.
Content
Engineering geology of the Melbourne region;
behaviour of lightly loaded structures on expansive soil;
preventive and remedial measures to protect structures
on expansive soils;
moisture stabilisation for expansive soil sites;
vibrations due to machinery and seismic shock;
land full operations.
Recommended reading
Peck, W.A.ed. et al., Enginem'ng Geology ofMelbourne. Balkema,
1992
Das, B.M., Advanced Soil Mechanics. McGraw-Hill 1985
Goodman, R.E., Introduction to Rock Mechanics. Wiley, 1989
CE596 Engineering Management
8 credit points 5 hours per week Hawthorn
Assessment: class tests 35%, assignments 65%
This is a fifth year subject in the Bachelor of Engineering
(Civil)
Objectives
To make students aware of the role of the engineer in
society and of effects of man on the environment.
To extend basic management concepts introduced earlier in
the course into specific areas of management practice, and to
give students a background into some common and
important construction practices.
Content
The engineer and society
The role of the engineer in society, professional institutions,
professional ethics.
Environmental engineering
Global ecology, conservation versus development,
sustainable use of renewable resources, control of use of
non-renewable resources, values of natural systems,
wilderness and landscape, environmental impact assessment,
environmental rehabilitation.
Project management
Project management initiation of projects, feasibility studies.
Contract documentation conditions of contract, bonds,
specifications, schedule of quantities, contract drawings.
Tendering procedures estimating, cash flow forecasting.
Construction control critical path methods, cost control,
construction documentation, claims, partial and final
certificates.
Industrial relations trade unions, negotiations, arbitration
and conciliation.
Contract disputes the role of the arbitrator, legal procedures,
procedures for obtaining planning and building approval,
permits, certification.
Formwork design and certification of formwork.
Finance
Budgets management reporting systems, financial control of
projects.