Undergraduate Course: Structural Engineering 3 (CIVE09038)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | In this course, students develop an understanding of the basic concepts, behaviour, strength, and design of steel, concrete, timber, composite and other structural sections. The course also includes discussion of buckling in axially loaded structural elements. |
| Course description |
Structural Engineering 3 will help you develop some of the fundamental ideas and calculation methods required to design and assess structures for ultimate (i.e. failure) loads. By assessing the structural capacity of sections, engineers can assess whether their designs can support the level of load required, and whether structural instabilities (i.e. buckling) might influence this.
The course covers:
- real and idealized constitutive material models used in structural design;
- the elastic and plastic analysis of sections under pure bending and under combined axial load and bending;
- creating and using axial/flexural interaction diagrams;
- principals behind composite construction;
- design of reinforced concrete, steel, and composite sections using plastic analysis; and
- global buckling modes and loads for axially loaded structural elements.
The course will have lectures, self-learning and laboratories that will help the student to understand the principals used in SE3. The students will demonstrate what they have learnt through coursework (30% of final mark) and a 2hr exam (70%).
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2021/22, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
98 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
70 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Written Exam %: 70
Practical Exam %: 0
Coursework %: 30
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Explain the basis of limit-state design, and the statistical basis underpinning design codes and safety factors;
- Apply general stress-strain curves to analyse the stress distribution on a general section under combined bending and compression/tension;
- Calculate the ultimate capacity of common sections made of common materials under pure bending, pure axial, or combined bending and axial loading;
- develop axial-flexural interaction curves for any sections made of any materials (e.g. steel, concrete, masonry, composite) for a given constitutive model;
- Calculate the ultimate moment and compression capacities of composite (e.g. steel-concrete, FRP-concrete etc.) sections and explain the benefits of this type of construction; and describe how a columns will buckle under a variety of end restraints.
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Additional Information
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | |
Course secretary | Mr Craig Hovell
Tel: (0131 6)51 7080
Email: c.hovell@ed.ac.uk |
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