1997 QUT Handbook

■ CEB512 TRANSPORT ENGINEERING 1
Land use/transport interaction, trip generation, trip distribution,
mode choice, transport operations analysis, transport
economics, transport capacity, urban road planning principles,
urban transit planning, railway, aviation and bulk commodity
systems design. Advanced pavement design techniques.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42 Prerequisites: CEB315
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB520 FINITE ELEMENT METHODS
Finite element, finite difference and similar numerical techniques.
Theoretical and modelling considerations are covered
in the context of case studies in structures, soil mechanics and
hydraulics.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42 Prerequisites: CEB355
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB531 MASONRY DESIGN
Working stress design. Assumptions, derivation of design formulae
for beams, walls and columns with clay and concrete
masonry. Masonry materials. Physical properties of masonry
materials.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42
Prerequisites: CEB306, CEB355, CEB293
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB541 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 2
Analysis, design and installation of sheetpile walls and excavation
support. Protection of adjacent structures. Analysis,
design and installation of pile and pier foundations. Shallow
foundations on rock. Rock sockets. Foundations on expansive
soils. Site characteristics by in situ testing methods. Selection
of soil properties for design.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42 Prerequisites: CEB342
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB542 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING 3
Development of marginal lands: trafficability; embankments
on soft soil; preloading; vertical drainage; vibroflotation; dynamic
compaction and methods of deep foundation improvement.
Rock excavation and slope stabilisation. Soil improvement,
including mechanical and chemical stabilisation, soil
reinforcement and other techniques. Anchoring in soil and
rock. Earth and rockfill design and construction.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42 Prerequisites: CEB341
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB543 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOTECHNOLOGY
An introduction into the investigation and analysis of
groundwater flow through porous media, including numerical
modelling and contaminant transport.
Courses: CE31, CE42, CE43, IF42
Prerequisites: CEB240, CEB241
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB551 ADVANCED STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Emphasis on the design of more complex structures. Normally
three projects are studied involving some or all of: design in
new materials, new analytical techniques, new codes of practice,
novel structures.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42
Prerequisites: CEB201, CEB306, CEB355
Corequisites: CEB408
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB560 HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING 3
Lectures, tutorial, practical work and site visits examine selected
topics in water engineering. Topics chosen from hydrology,
mobile bed hydraulics, river hydraulics, hydraulic
structures, urban drainage, physical and mathematical modelling.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42
Prerequisites: CEB261, CEB362
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB561 COASTAL ENGINEERING
Coastal engineering: wave theory, recording and analysis, wave
generation; coastal processes, tides, surges, etc. currents, sedi-
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ment movement, foreshore protection; coastal inlets, canal
systems; planning and design of coastal structures; hydraulic
models.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42 Prerequisites: CEB261
Corequisites: CEB362
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB564 ENGINEERING SCIENCE 4
Road pavement and building footing appraisal methods;
earthworks and reclamation design/testing procedures; local
authority/DPI design guidelines for water supply and sewerage
reticulation, all fitments and testing; roads earthworks,
pavements, surfacing, etc.; stormwater trenching, bedding and
backfilling; water/sewer trenching, bedding, testing and
backfilling; other services conducts, specifications and estimating
procedures; preparation of selected engineering design
plans roadworks, stormwater and other services; other
engineered services for land development projects; material
selected to suit the student group; costing of engineering services;
use of planning figures and unit costs; design office exercises
in reading data from plans estimating costs, and preparing
original designs and modifications to roads, water supply,
sewerage and other engineered services.
Courses: PS47, PS48 Corequisites: CEB464
Credit Points: 6 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB570 WASTE MANAGEMENT
Basic solid waste management (domestic, commercial and
industrial wastes); the general principles of industrial liquid
waste management, with examples of some important industries.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42 Corequisites: CEB371
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB575 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ASSESSMENT
Introduction to the techniques of environmental management.
Environmental impact assessment and the evaluation of critical
environmental problems.
Courses: CE42, CE43, IF42
Prerequisites: CEB370, CEB371, SCB246
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ CEB701 CIVIL ENGINEERING QUANTITIES 1
The measurement of civil engineering works based on the
study of SMM of Civil Engineering Quantities. Detailed study
of construction methods, plant, specification and measurement
of: earthworks (clearing, compaction and dredging); roadworks
(survey, bulk excavation and filling, pavement construction,
kerbing, culverts); and bridges (abutments, superstructure,
approach embankments, safety structures, types of bridge
structures, foundations, prestressed concrete). It includes a
brief introduction to computer applications such as earthwork
calculations, etc.
Courses: CN31, CN33 Prerequisites: CNB341
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ CEB901 CIVIL ENGINEERING QUANTITIES 2
Further study of SMM for industrial engineering construction
leading to the measurement of dams, earthworks, storage
volumes, etc.; refinery and processing plant, pipework, vessels,
tanks, instrumentation, electrical commissioning, scaffold,
shut down maintenance; pipelines, environmental assessment,
construction, stations; mining, plant and equipment,
conveyors, processing plant, etc.; oil and gas, offshore platforms,
fabrications, etc.; cost engineering and cost control on
engineering projects.
Courses: CN33 Prerequisites: CEB701
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ CEP107 CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT &
ECONOMICS
The management of operational features of engineering practice.
Topics include engineering economics, contracts, plant and
labour considerations of concern to the engineer and manager.
Courses: CE63, CE74
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 2 per week