UNSW Handbook Course - Steel and Composite Structures

Steel and Composite Structures - CVEN9822


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
	Course Outline: http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
	CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
	Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

A course on the advanced analysis and design of structural elements for students looking towards a career in Structural Engineering. The course covers: design of compression members, effective lengths of columns, design of plate girders (local buckling in shear, combined shear and bending, intermediate transverse stiffeners, web crippling – buckling and yield limit state) design by buckling analysis, design of portal frames, behaviour and design of beam-columns, connection design, plastic design (beams, simple frames), introduction to composite steel-concrete structures, elastic and rigid plastic analysis of composite beams, composite columns, composite connections, introduction to structural fire engineering.

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