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~ ~ 4 7 7 Construction
This subject has three components:
CE477A Construction 3
CE477B Construction 4 and
CE477C Foundation Systems.
C E ~ A 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
This subject is 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, acoustics,
fire resistance and inspections of appropriate sites.
References
Economical Steelwork AlSC
Various Australian Standards
~ ~ 4 7 Construction 7 ~ 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
This subject is designed to give students an appreciation of the
general principles, structural details of special structures.
The topics are principles of structural action, materials,
structural details, and methods of construction for precast and
prefabricated structures, shells, folded-plate structures, cable
and membrane structures, air-inflated structures, high-riie
post-tensioned structures, and other special structures and
inspections of appropriate sites.
References
To be advised
~ ~ 4 7Foundation 7 ~ Systems
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisites: CE276 Construction, CE283
Geomechanics
Instruction: lectures, laboratoly work, field
excursions
Assessment: examination 60%, reports 40%
This subject is designed to extend students' knowledge in the
area of geomechanics.
The subject covers 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, reportsand their interpretation. Approval of
foundations: regulations, - res~onsibilities
. of various parties. Soil
behaviour in ~ilbourne.
Textbooks
AS2870- 1 Residential Footing Code Standards - Australia
References
Das, B.M. Principles of Geotechnical Engineering, 3rd edn, Boston,
PWS, 1994
Site Investigations Code
~ ~ 4 7 8 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
This subiect deals with the behaviour of fire in buildings.
familiarkes students with fire services and develops s6dents1
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. Performance of structural members and
assemblies under fire conditions. Australian Fire Codes. Fire
testsand 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. Chichester, Wiley, 1983
Malhotra. Design of Fire Resisting Structures. Glasgow, Surrey
University Press, 1982
SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering, Quincy, Mass., National
Fire Protection Association, 1988
~ ~ 4 8 1 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.