Engineering construction
BI
C Medhurst
4.5 points * 39 lecture hours, 26 tutorial/field trip hours * Second semester * Gippsland * Prerequisites: GEG2313, GEG2323, GEG2343
Plant and equipment: compressed air services, excavating tools, rock drilling tunnel plant, hoisting and conveying equipment, concreting plant, form work, scaffolding welding, selection of plant, safety. Construction methods: preliminary works, drilling and blasting, open excavation, shafts and tunnels, preparations of foundations piled foundations, timber and concrete construction, steel structures, prestressed concrete, roads and runways, dams, bridges, harbour and river works, estimating materials and costs.
Assessment
Examination: 60% * Assignments: 40%
Prescribed texts
Antill J M and others Civil engineering construction McGraw-Hill, 1988