Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Civil Engineering and Built Environment
Learning Methods
Lecture
Practical
Workshop
Module Offerings
4405CIVH-SEP-CTY
Aims
To provide learners an opportunity to develop the skills required to analyse statically determinate structures in compliance with current codes of practice and standards and design and detail structural elements.
To demonstrate and explore structural behaviour through experimentation.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Analyse bending moments and shear forces for statically determinate structures.
2.
Analyse bending deflections for statically determinate structures.
3.
Appraise the behaviour of elastic columns subjected to axial loading.
4.
Apply design methods and detail elements of a structure.
5.
Design beams and columns in steel and reinforced concrete.
6.
Undertake structural experimental procedures.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Axial forces: Frames; resolution of joints; method of sections; horizontal, vertical and inclined members.
Bending moments and shear forces: cantilevers and supported beams; point loads; uniformly distributed loads; bending moment diagrams; shear force diagrams.
Properties of sections: sectional properties (simple beam sections); use of standard formulae or manufacturer's published tables in steel and in-situ reinforced concrete. Bending deflections: bending deflection in beams (variety of materials for beam selection)
Bending stresses: variation across a section for simply supported beams and cantilevers; axial and bending stress on a column.
Axial load carrying capacity: elastic buckling, Euler's method, concept of effective length.
Design methods: steel beams and columns; concept of limit state design, classification of Universal Beam and Universal Column sections; moment capacity, shear resistance and deflection, Concrete beam and column reinforcing requirements, design status of column, columns under axial load with bending moments about one axis; timber beams and posts, masonry columns (square and rectangular only).
Additional Information:This module focuses on the skills required to analyse construction designs and appraise statically determinate structures. Learners will carry out the design of common structural elements to the appropriate British Standard, Code of Practice or European Code of Practice.