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Module Overview

Structural Design 3

This module builds upon the study of Structural Analysis and Design earlier in the programme.

 

This module covers:

  • The production of a good structural layout for a simple rectangular building
  • The design basic structural steel and reinforced concrete elements for a building
  • Checking a building for overall stability

Module Code

CONC 3051

ECTS Credits

5

*Curricular information is subject to change
  • Steel design
    • Stress/strain properties of steel, manufacture of steel, grades of steel, types of section
    • Limit State Design:  Principles, working and factored loads, ultimate limit states, serviceability limit states.
    • Loading, load take-down for a multi-storey building
    • Loading, analysis, sizing and classification of beams and stanchions for multi-storey buildings including
    • Design checks of UB and UC sections for moment, shear, local buckling, overall buckling, lateral torsional buckling, web crushing, deflection
    • Design of compound beams and plate girders

 

  • Concrete design
    • Brief introduction to concrete
      • Advantages /disadvantages
  • Mechanisms of load transfer (brief revision
    • Tension
    • Compression
    • Shear
    • Flexure
  • Load Paths
  • Loading
    • Ultimate
    • Service
    • Load Factors (combination, frequent, quasi-permanent)
    • Critical loading combinations
  • Preliminary Sizing Beams
  • Detailed RC beam design – Simply supported, singly reinforced
  • Detailed RC slab design - one way spanning simply supported
  • Detailed foundation design – pad foundation, eccentrically loaded

 

Lectures – 4 hours per week (2 hours steel, 2 hours concrete)

Module Content & Assessment
Assessment Breakdown %
Formal Examination80
Other Assessment(s)20