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Structural Engineering 1 - CVEN2322
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: CVEN1023
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

The course consists of an analysis strand and a design strand. Analysis Strand: Revision of Mechanics of Solids; combined stresses and failure theorems. The principles and requirements of structural analysis of indeterminate trusses and simple frames; structural idealisation; determinancy; principles of virtual work; the force method (flexibility analysis). Design Strand: Introduction to limit states design and codes of practice (design objectives; strength; serviceability and durability limit states); loads and load combinations (dead, live, wind and earthquake loads); structural steel;: design of tension and stocky compression memebers; local buckling; Euler buckling; design of laterally supported steel beams; simple steel connections.

Assumed knowledge: CVEN2023.

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