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~€477 Construction
This subject has three components:
CE477A Construction 3,
CE477B Construction 4 and
CE477C Foundation Systems.
CE477A Construction 3
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisite: CE276 Construction
Instruction: lectures, site inspections
Assessment: examination 60%. reports 40%
Subject aims and description
A final-year subject of the Degree of Building Surveying
designed to give students an appreciation of the general
principles and structural details for multi-storey structures.
The subject covers: structural systems, foundation types,
Construction systems: steel construction, concrete
construction, including formwork and concrete placement.
Excavations: methods, equipment, trenching, rock excavation.
Cladding and roofs: cladding and roof materials and systems,
curtain walls, glass and glazing sealants, thermal and
acoustical performance, cleaning and maintenance trafficable
and non-trafficable roofs, parapets, stormwater discharge.
Partitions, walls and ceilings: materials and details, acoustio,
fire resistance and inspections of appropriate sites.
References
Economical Steelwork AlSC
Various Australian Standards
CE477B Construction 4
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisites: CE276 Construction, CE477A
Construction 3
Instruction: lectures, site inspections
Assessment: examination 60%, reports 40%
Subject aims and description
A final-year subject of the Degree of Building Surveying
designed to give students an appreciation of the general
principles, structural details of special structures.
The topics are principles of structural action, materials,
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c structural details, and methods of construction for precast
Q and prefabricated structures, shells, folded-plate structures,
O, cable and membrane structures, air-inflated structures, highrise
post-tensioned structures, and other special structures
S. and inspections of appropriate sites.
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No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisites: CE276 Construction, CE283
Geomechanics
Instruction: lectures, laboratory work, field
excursions
Assessment: examination 60%, reports 40%
A final-year subject of the Degree of Building Surveying
designed to extend students' knowledge in the area of
geomechanics.
The subject coveF compaction: compaction process,
compaction plant, control of filled sites. Foundations: bearing
capacity, settlement, footing design with particular emphasis
on residential and light industrial foundations. Excavations
and underpinning. Lateral earth pressure. Site investigations:
methods, reports and their interpretation. Approval of
foundations: regulations, responsibilities of various parties.
Soil behaviour in Melbourne.
Textbooks
AS28701 Residential Footing Code Standards - Australia
References
Das, B.M. Principles of Geotechnical Engineering
Site Investigations Code
CE478 Fire Technology
No. of hours per week: two hours for two
semesters
Prerequisites: CE256 Structural Design, CE114
Applied Mechanics, CE256 Structural Design,
MM269 Services
Instruction: lectures, tutorials, field excursions
Assessment: examination 60%, assessed work
40%
Subject aims and description
A final-year subject of the Degree of Building Surveying
which deals with the behaviour of fire in buildings,
familiarises students with fire services and develops students'
understanding of the behaviour of elements and structures
under fire.
The subject covers: causes of fire, products of fire, fire and
smoke development, material behaviour under fire, fire loads
and compartmentation. Fire and smoke detection and
control. Human behaviour, evacuation procedures.
Introduction to fire rated materials. ~ehormance of structural
members and assemblies under fire conditions. Australian
Fire Codes. Fire tests and their application. Design of steel,
concrete and timber members to resist fire. Protection of
penetrations.
References
AS1 530, Methods for Fire Tests on Building Materials & Structure
AS1 668, Mechanical Ventilation and Air Conditioning
Butcher, E.G. Designing for Fire Safety. Ch~chester: Wiley, 1983
Malhotra. Design of Fire Resisting Structures. Glasgow: Surrey
University Press, 1982
Society of Fire Protealon Engineers. Fire Protection Engineering
Handbook
CE481 Geomechanics
No. of hours per week: three hours
Assessment: examination 85%. laboratory 15%
Subject aims
To enable students to design simple foundations considering
both soil shear strength and settlement characteristics, to
estimate the stability of soil slopes, and to apply the basic
principles of site investigation.
Subject description
Performance of shallow foundations including immediate and
consolidation settlement, bearing capacity for inclined and
eccentric loads, lightly loaded (residential) foundations. Deep
foundations including load capacity and settlement of single
piles and pile groups.
Slope stability: slopes in cohesionless soils, cohesive soils,
total and effective stress analysis including friction circle
method, method of slices, computer analysis, use of stability
charts, changes of slope stability with time, methods of
stabilising slopes.
Site investigation including planning, sampling methods,
insitu tests.
References
AS1726-1981 SAA Site Investigation Code
AS21 59-1987 SAA Piling Code
AS2870-1986 Residential Slabs and Footings
Das, B.M Principles of Geotechnical Engineering. PWS-Kent