STRU08005 2019 Structural Design 402H

Analyse and design structural steelwork structures.

Analyse and design composite structural steelwork structures.

Analyse and design reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete structures.

Select an approrpiate scheme design for planning, organising and implementing a detailed design solution as part of a design team.

Plan, organise and prepare appropriate detailed general arrangement, reinforced concrete and structural steelwork drawings as part of a design team.

This module will be delivered to full-time learners through a mix of formal lectures and design practical classes. 

This module will be delivered to part-time online learners through a mix of live online lectures and online tutorials. The lectures and tutorials will be recorded and made available to the learners through an online virtual learning environment.

To reinforce the theoretical principles covered in lectures, learners will participate in design practicals and project work.

This module is 100% continuous assessment as it is a practical subject.

The continuous assessment is based on group project work and calculations, sketches, reports, drawings, presentations and interviews that will be assessed on an ongoing basis to provide both formative and summative assessment to the learner.

The project work is interdisciplinary and linked with Geotechnical Engineering 402H.

Both individual and team performance will be assessed at different stages during this project work with an emphasis on teamwork.

Peer assessment will be incorporated into marks awarded for all practical work. The sizing of the slice method of group assessment (Clelford & Hopkins, 2014) will be used to allocate marks to the individual members of the project group. A copy of this method of allocating marks will be given to the students at the start of the module.  

Clelford, T. & Hopkins, A., 2014. Sizing the Slice: Assessing Individual Performance in Group Projects, CEBE Funded Case Study retrieved on 5/12/2014 from http://www‑new1.heacademy.ac.uk/cebe/themes/alldisplay?type=resources&newid=casestudies/cebe/sizing_the_slice&site=cebe

The learner must pass all elements of the continuous assessment.

Where a learner or group of learners fail the project element of the module they will be required to resubmit the project or an alternative project for assessment or a repeat exam paper at the repeat examination session.

Structural steelwork design may include the following:

1. Steel Beam Design: Continuous and compound beams.
2. Plate Girder Design: Unstiffened and stiffened plate girders. Splices.

Composite structural steelwork design may include the following:

1. Introduction to composite steel design and design procedures.
2. Shear and Moment Capacity.
3. Shear connectors. Full shear connection. Partial shear connection.
4. Serviceability limit state requirements.

RC water retaining structures design may include the following:

1. The basis of design and design procedures.
2. Joints: Construction joints. Types of movement joints.
3. Limit State Design: Ultimate and serviceability limit states.
4. Testing and Rectification

Prestressed Concrete may include the following:

1. Introduction. Principles of prestressing. Methods of prestressing
2. Analysis of concrete sections under working load. Member subject to axial prestress force or subject to eccentric prestress force.
3. Design for Serviceability Limit State. Determination of minimum section properties. Design of prestress force. Transfer stresses. Design of tendon profiles. Prestress losses. Deflections. End blocks.
4. Analysis and design at the Ultimate Limit State. Analysis of the section. Design of additional reinforcement and shear reinforcement.

 Design project(s) and practical work are designed to supplement the fundamental principles covered in lectures.