CVE4122

Structural engineering 6

C Q Li

3 points · 13 lecture hours and 26 tutorial hours · Second semester · Caulfield · Prerequisites: CVE4121

Objectives On completion of this subject the student should have the ability to assess the actual behaviour of structures under increasing loading until collapse; to analyse and design steel composite structures using both elastic and plastic methods.

Synopsis Structural assessment, safety and reliability, probability of structural failure, time-dependent reliability methods. Structural assessment criteria; basic knowledge of structural safety and reliability; probability of structural failure; probability load and resistance modelling; introduction of time-dependent reliability method. Plastic design: plastic behaviour of simple structures, collapse load, 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.

Assessment Examination (3 hours): 70% · Assignments: 30%

Prescribed texts

Standards Australia Steel structures S4100-1900 Standards Australia, 1990

Recommended texts

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
Mitchers R E Structural reliability analysis and predictions Wiley

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