Structural engineering 6
M B Wong
3 points * 13 lecture hours, 26 tutorial hours * Second semester * Caulfield * Prerequisites: CVE4121
Non-linear analysis of structures: buckling load and buckling mode, geometric stiffness matrix, eigenvalue and eigenvector, P-delta effect. Plastic design: plastic behaviour of simple structures, collapse load, plastic analysis of single span beams, continuous beams and portal frames; mechanism method, basic and combined collapse mechanisms, beam and sway mechanisms, plastic design to AS4100, second-order effect, amplification factor, plastic design of web. Limit analysis of general frames by computers, elastoplastic analysis, concept of plastic hinges. Yield line analysis of slabs, yield line patterns, positive and negative yield lines, collapse load by energy method, applications to reinforced concrete slabs.
Assessment
Examinations (3 hours): 80% * Assignments: 20%
Prescribed texts
Standards Australia Steel structures S4100-1900 Standards Australia, 1990
Recommended texts
Jones L L Ultimate load analysis of reinforced and prestressed concrete Chatto and Windus, 1968
Neil B G The plastic methods of structural analysis Chapman and Hall, 1977
Trahair N S and Bradford M A The behaviour and design of steel structures Chapman and Hall, 1988