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Subject description
A selection of more advanced structural design projects
chosen to emphasise the intepretation of current design
codes and current design practices.
CE555 Civil Design
No. of hours per week: five hours
Assessment: assignments 100%
Subject aims
To develop students' abilities to apply theoretical knowledge
to a range of practical design situations.
Subject description
A range of designs will be chosen from structural and civil
engineering areas of the course. Assignments which require
creative solutions will be included. Problem solutions may be
in the form of written reports, design computations,
drawings and models, as appropriate.
In addition students will be given a series of lectures in the
design process aimed at coordinating activities involved.
CE576 Construction Engineering (Major Elective)
No. of hours per week: five hours
Assessment: class test 40% assignments 30%,
oral presentation 30%
Subject aims
To develop students' knowledge and skills in the
construction area.
Subject description
The construction industry: organisation, economy and
opportunities, entrepreneurial construction activities, types of
contract, design and construct contracts, project
management, fast track.
Plant: output and performance of bulldozers, tractor
scrapers, excavators, truck cycles.
Road construction: quarry operation, selection, performance
and output of road plant, quality control, stabilisation of
sub-grades, roller compacted pavements, block pavements,
geotextiles, road diversions and other construction
requirements.
Bridge construction: steel, reinforced and prestressed
concrete bridges, segmental and girder launched
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.
CE582 Geornechanics (Minor Elective)
No. of hours per week: three hours
Assessment: assignments/laboratory work 100%
Subject aims
To extend students' knowledge of geology and soil
mechanics and introduce them to rock mechanics and give
them an appreciation of the high lwei of experience and
"art" required to practice in the area of geomechanics.
Subject description
Earth pressure problems, braced excavations, tie-back walls
and soil anchors; introduction to soil dynamics; introduction
to rock mechanics; further selected topics in soil engineering
and engineering geology.
CE596 Engineering Management
No. of hours per week: five hours
Assessment: class tests 35%, assignments 65%
Subject aims
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.
Subject description
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.
Cost-benefit analysis: discounted cash, flow present worth
criteria, buying or hiring plant, life-cycle costing, project
evaluation, profitability, evaluation of tenders, replacement of
plant.
Legal aspects
The Australian legal system, commercial law regarding
employers, employer liabilities. Contracts for the provision of
engineering services by practices and employees, agreements
involving resort to arbitration, property law concepts relevant
to the practice of engineering, patents, copyright,
trademarks and industrial design, the consequences in civil
law for the careless provision of engineering services or
advice (the tort of negligence). Companies, partnerships,
trusts and joint ventures as vehicles or entities for the
practice of engineering. Planning law: acts and legislation
relevant to major projects.
~ ~ 6 7 0 Construction Technology
No. of hours per week: four hours
Instruction: lectures/tutorial/discussion
Assessment: by assignment work
Subject aims
To develop a knowledge of a technological resources
available for the execution of a construction project.