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Design of timber structures: glulam and LVL members, joint
displacements, plate connectors and multi-nail connections.
Design of concrete structures: modelling and analysis of
three dimensional forms such as stairs, combined footings
and flat slab systems, reinforcement detailing.
CE395 Engineering Management
No. of hours per week: three hours
Assessment: examination 70°h, assignments and
submitted work 30%
Subject aims
To introduce students to some fundamental concepts in
business management and construction management.
Subject description
Management fundamentals (28 hours)
General introduction to classical management theory.
Organisation: the nature of management, organisation
structure, management structure, management functions, key
function areas.
Finance: introduction to business finance, sources of funds,
financial accounting, double entry bookkeeping through to
trial balance, management accounting, costing capital
investment, working capital.
Human aspects: introduction to human aspects and
industrial relations, basic psychology, working groups.
informal organisation, status. motivation, human resources
management, industrial legislation affecting arbitration,
employment, working conditions, introducing change
Construction management (14 hours)
Site organisation: organisation, procedures, duties and
responsibilities of the client's and contractor's representatives.
Site safety: regulations and ads, safety precautions, codes of
practice.
Operations analysis: ttme and motion studies, time lapse
techniques, sampling of operations, queuing theory in
determining economic haul-server systems.
CE404
Computer Applications
No. of hours per week: two hours
Prerequisite: CE204 Computer Applications
Instruction: lectures, laboratory work
3 Assessment: assessed work 100%
A final-year subject of the Degree of Building Surveying
designed to enable students to be aware of and use
2 -. common programs for administrative and technical areas of
building surveying.
The subject covers external data bases, administrative
software, technical software, decision support software:
awareness and use of systems such as BCAIDER, on-line
enquiry systems. Major vendor installation: awareness and
understanding of what is available from major vendors.
It is expected that the activities undertaken in this subject
will be coordinated with other subjects in the course where
computer applications are the usual tool to assist in problem
solving.
Reference
Zwart, P.R. Microcomputers in Local Government. 1896. ACADS Code
of Practice. CPI.
~ ~ 4 0 6 Water and Transport Engineering
(Elective)
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: examinations 7096, assignments and
laboratory 30%
Subject aims
To extend students' knowledge and skills in the areas of
transport engineering and water engineering.
Subject description
Transport Engineering (28 hours)
Road traffic: flow theories, human performance, vehicle
characteristics. Arterial road traffic management.
Signals: saturation flow, calculation of signal timing, layout
of hardware, signal linking, 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
No. of hours per week: five hours
Assessment: examination SO%, assessment by
consultation 30%, laboratory and assignments
20%
Subject aims
To further develop students' understanding of structural
mechanics. To extend students' knowledge of the principles
of structural design in prestressed concrete and steel design.
To introduce principles of masonry design. To provide
practice in the application of these principles.
Subject description
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)
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: assignments 100%
Subject aims
To introduce advanced topics in structural engineering
analysis and design with a particular emphasis on computer
application.
Subject description
Structural dynamics: free and forced vibrations of single and
multi-degree of freedom systems.