• Semester 2 (Day)
• Semester 2 (External)

Pre-requisite: E0006+70270/E0004

Synopsis

Structural  design  is concerned with buildings and  other  structures
such  as  bridges.  A structural design engineer is required  to  make
decisions about how buildings and other structures will be built  such
that   they   will  perform  satisfactorily  and  will   not   rapidly
deteriorate, deflect excessively or in the worst event, fall down. The
design  engineer makes decisions about the general arrangement of  the
structural  members, the materials of which they are made, their  size
and how they are connected together.

Structural  designers  make  use of information  about  materials  and
construction processes together with various analytical techniques  to
assist  them  in  making the correct decisions  about  how  structures
should be built. In per requisite Units you have already acquired some
of  this information and techniques. In particular you have learnt how
to  analyse structures to determine such things as bending moments and
stresses. In this Unit you will revise, consolidate and extend some of
these  topics and use them to assist in the design of structures.  The
Unit  concentrates on estimating the loads which a  structure  may  be
required  to carry, designing individual members in steel  and  timber
and designing steel connections.