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Road materials and tests: aggregates and bituminous
materials, theory of compaction, theory of stabilisation.
Traffic engineering: basic traffic studies, analysis of speed
and travel time and delay studies, traffic control devices.
Construction of roads: including types and use of machines,
clearing, ripping, earthmoving, compaction, trimming,
bituminous surfacing, stabilisation, erosion control. Field
control of compaction and field tests of density. Production
and efficiency in earthmoving.
Practical work: Appropriate laboratory tests to support the
theoretical content. Computer classes in road design.
CE276 Construction
No. of hours per week: five hours in first
semester, three hours in second semester
Prerequisite: CE173 Construction
Instruction: lectures, tutorials, drafting classes,
field work
Assessment: examination 70%. diary, reports,
research projects, folio of work 30%
Subject aims and description
A second-year subject of the Degree in Building Surveying,
designed to give students an understanding of the general
principles and details of buildings with load-bearing walls up
to three-storeys and single-storey, wide span structures with
framed or load-bearing walls, and to expose the students to
architectural and engineering drafting related to buildings.
References
Brickwork Code
Building Code of Australia
Concrete Code
Ferguson, B.J. Reinforcement Detailing Handbook. Concrete Institute
of Australia, 1988
Trade Catalogues
CE277 Temporary Structures
No. of hours per week: three hours for two
semesters
Prerequisite: CE173 Construction
Instruction: lectures, tutorials, practical work, field
work
Assessment: external examinations in Scaffolding
Inspections A and 0. Satisfactory completion of
practical work and assignments
Subject aims and description
A second-year subject of the Degree in Building Surveying,
designed to give students an understanding of the general
principles, structural details of scaffolding, falsework and
formwork.
The subject is made up of three major sections:
Part A Scaffolding A
Part I3 Scaffolding B
Part A and B cover: types of scaffolding systems, their
erection and use. The Scaffolding Act 1971 and statutory
rules and their interpretation. Practical erection of
scaffolding. Safety in the use of scaffolding.
Part C Formwork and false work
This section coven the temporary structures used in the
construction of buildings.
Textbooks
Scaffolding Act 1971
Scaffolding Regulations 1974
References
Formwork Code
Scaffolding Code
CE281 Ceomechanics
No. of hours per week: three hours for two
semesters
Assessment: field and practical work, mapping
30%, examinations 70%
Subject aims and description
A subject in the second year of the Degree in Civil
Engineering which aims to develop an understanding of the
fundamental principles of geology and soil mechanics, and
apply these to simple engineering problems.
Geology; Significance of geology in civil engineering.
Principles of mineralogy and petrology. Structural geology
including deformed rocks. Geomorphology including ground
water and weathering. Victorian stratigraphy. Engineering
geology including site investigation. Practical and field work
including mineral and rock identification, geological
mapping, excursions.
Soil Mechanics; Soil types and physical properties.
Classification and soil description. Geostatic stresses and the
effective stress law. Soil hydraulics including permeability,
flow nets, and anisotropic flow. Shear strength of coarse and
fine grained soils including total and effective stress. Shear
strength testing. Earth pressure theory for rigid and flexible
retaining walls. Bearing capacity of shallow foundations.
Practical work including index tests, soil permeability and
construction of flow nets, undrained triaxial test and direct
shear test. Field work including a simple site investigation.
Reference
Das, B.M. Principles of Geotechnical Engineering. PWS-Kent,
AS1726-1981 V\A Site Investigation Code
CE283 Geomechanics
No. of hours per week: three hours
Instruction: lectures, tutorials, laboratory work
Assessment: examination 70%, reports 30%
Subject aims and description
A second-year subject of the Degree in Building Sutveying,
designed to provide a building surveyor with the necessary
knowledge of geomechanics to enable him to perform his
duties of inspection and approval of foundations and other
earth works properly.
Types of soil and rock, stresses in soils, strength of soils, field
and laboratoty tests, soil water, foundations: introduction to
bearing capacity, settlement and footing design. Approval of
foundation. Inspections.
References
Das, B.M. Principles of Geotechnical Engineering. 2nd ed. PWS-Kent.
1990
Residential Footings Code
Site Investigations Code
CE294 Statutory Control
This subject consists of:
CE294A Statutory ControllPlan Checking 2 and
CE294B Town Planning.
CE294A Statutory ControllPlan Checking 2
No. of hours per week: three hours for two
semesters
Prerequisite: CE192 Statutory Control
Instruction: lectures, tutorials
Assessment: examination 70%, assessed work
30%
Subject aims and description
A second-year subject of the Degree in Building Surveying,
intended to give students an understanding of the major