Structural engineering 6
M B Wong
3 points * 13 lecture hours, 26 tutorial hours * Second semester * Caulfield * Prerequisites: CVE4121
Objectives On completion of this subject the student should have the ability to design steel structures using both elastic and plastic methods; to understand the actual behaviour of structures under increasing loading until collapse; to analyse and design concrete slabs.
Synopsis 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. Composite construction; partial shear connection; shear connectors. Yield line analysis of slabs, yield line patterns, positive and negative yield lines, collapse load by energy method, applications to reinforced concrete slabs.
Assessment Examination (3 hours): 70% * Assignments: 30%
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
Standards Australia SAA Composite construction code Part 1, Simply supported beams AS2327 Part 1, 1980
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