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 Academic Year: | 2016/7 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering |
| Credits: | 12 [equivalent to 24 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 240 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 100% |
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| Description:
| Aims: To introduce students to the concepts of limit state design and its practical application to a variety of construction materials, including reinforced concrete, pre-stressed concrete, steel, timber and masonry. To further enable students to integrate analytical and conceptual understanding of structural action with material selection through producing creative and competent designs. Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to: * Demonstrate their understanding on the knowledge and the concepts of limit state design in the design procedure * Integrating material selection in the design procedure * Producing a design scheme to implement their analytical and conceptual understandings of structural design, explain their material selection, and analyse the benefit and/or limitation of the construction technology in the scheme. Skills: Intellectual skills * To understand taught material - taught Professional/Practical skills * Analytical and design skills related to the material covered - assessed Transferable/key skills * To communicate ideas verbally and in writing - assessed. Content: 1. General part: Design philosophies (Geometrical principles; Permissible stress; LFRD; Limit state). Codes of Practice, Standards, Euro-codes. Design loads and actions. 2. Material specific: Reinforced and prestressed concrete - materials; singly and double reinforced beams; serviceability; Reinforced column; detailing of reinforcement; fire resistance; two way span slabs; flat slabs. derivation of losses, elastic and ultimate analysis, partial prestressing, load balancing; shear and end blocks; bursting. Structural steel design - steel sections; materials; simple tension members; simple compression members; beam design; bolted and welded connections. Structural timber - materials (grading, species); tension; compression; bending; connections. Structural unreinforced masonry - materials; compression; bending; shear. |
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AR20442 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
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