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 design steel structures using both elastic and plastic methods; to assess the actual behaviour of structures under increasing loading until collapse; to analyse and design concrete and steel composite structures.

Synopsis 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. Structural assessment, safety and reliability, probability of structural failure, time-dependent reliability methods. 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