Undergraduate Course: Behaviour and Design of Structures 2 (CIVE08012)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering | 
College | College of Science and Engineering | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 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, and strength of steel, concrete, prestreseed concrete, composite and other structural sections. | 
 
| Course description | 
    
    The course consists of a total of 18 × 1 hour lectures, additional guest lectures and 8 × 1 hour tutorial sessions.  
 
LECTURES 
 
L1	Introduction  
Structure and aims of the course; introduction to the limit state design philosophy; different types of structural forms. 
 
L2	Stress-strain relationships  
Stress-strain relationships (constitutive model) of idealised materials under uniaxial tension/compression: elastic-brittle, elastic-perfectly plastic, rigid plastic, elastic no tension, plastic no tension. 
 
L3	Steel - 1 
Strength of various steel sections under pure tension, compression or bending. 
 
L4	Steel - 2 
Moment-axial force interaction diagram for simple steel sections. 
 
L5	Steel -3 
Moment-axial force interaction diagram for complex steel sections. 
 
L6	Masonry - 1 
Bricks and mortar, behaviour of masonry, stress-strain relationship, compressive strength of masonry units and masonry assemblies. 
 
L7	Masonry - 2 
Analysis and design strength of masonry members under eccentric compressive loading 
 
L8	Concrete - introduction 
Concrete as a construction material, strength, test methods, review of stress-strain curve, introduction to durability of concrete. 
 
L9	Plain concrete members 
Tensile, compressive and bending capacities of plain concrete members, examples. 
 
L10	Reinforced concrete members - 1  
Section analysis based on full bond and plane section assumptions, Simplified stress block; over-reinforced, under-reinforced and balanced sections; calculation of the moment of resistance of singly reinforced section with examples. 
 
L11	Reinforced concrete members - 2 
Doubly reinforced sections, calculation of the moment of resistance of the section with example; flanged beams; calculation of moment of resistance of flanged beams. 
 
L12	Reinforced concrete members - 3 
Compressive resistance, M-N interaction diagrams, examples. 
 
L13	Composite structures - 1 
Bending resistance of steel-concrete composite sections. 
 
L14	Composite structures - 2 
M-N interaction diagram of steel-concrete composite sections. 
 
L15	Composite structures - 3 
Concrete reinforced with new materials (e.g. FRP). 
 
L16	Prestressed concrete - 1 
Introduction, concepts, techniques of applying prestressing, loss of prestress. 
 
L17	Prestressed concrete - 2 
Stress analysis and strength of prestressed sections. 
 
L18	Revision 
 
TUTORIALS 
 
T1 Stress-strain relationships for different materials 
 
T2 Tensile, compressive and bending capacities of steel sections, M-N interaction 
 
T3 Steel and masonry columns  
 
T4 Reinforced concrete sections: capacity under pure bending and eccentric compression 
 
T5 Bending capacity of composite sections 
 
    
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Information for Visiting Students 
| Pre-requisites | None, but see co-requisite requirements | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, 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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 Lecture Hours 20,
 Seminar/Tutorial Hours 9,
 Formative Assessment Hours 1,
 Summative Assessment Hours 3.5,
 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
64 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) | 
 
  Written Exam
80 %,
Coursework
20 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) | 
Coursework 20% 
Examination 80% | 
 
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| Exam Information | 
 
    | Exam Diet | 
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) |  | 1:30 |  |  | Resit Exam Diet (August) |  | 1:30 |  |  
 
Learning Outcomes 
    By the end of the course, the student should be able to:  
* apply general stress-strain curves to analyse the stress distribution on a general section under combined bending and compression/tension 
* calculate the ultimate moment and compression capacities of general steel sections; 
* calculate the ultimate moment and compression capacities of various reinforced concrete sections; 
* calculate the ultimate moment and compression capacities of various composite (e.g. steel-concrete, FRP-concrete etc.) sections; 
* develop M-N interaction curves for any sections made of any materials (e.g. steel, concrete, masonry, composite) for a given constitutive model; 
* calculate the ultimate capacity of common sections made of common materials under combined bending and compression; 
* understand the behaviour of prestressed concrete.
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Reading List 
- Trahair, N. S., Bradford, M. A. & Nethercot, D. A. (2001). The Behaviour and Design of Steel Structures to BS5950, Spon Press, third edition-British. 
 
- MacGinley, T. J. (1998). Steel Structures. London: E & FN Spon, second edition. 
 
- MacGinley, T. J. & Ang, T. C. (1992). Structural Steelwork: Design to Limit State Theory. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, second edition. 
 
-Nethercot, D. A. (2001). Limit States Design of Structural Steelwork. London: Spon Press, third edition. 
- Owens, G. W. & Knowles, P., Eds. (1994). Steel Designers' Manual. The Steel Construction Institute. Oxford: Blackwell Science Ltd. 
 
- Reinforced & Prestressed Concrete, Kong and Evans, Chapman  Hall, 1992.  
 
- Mosley, B., Bungey, J. and Hulse, R. (2007). Reinforced Concrete Design to Eurocode 2. Palgrave, 6th edition.  
 
- Seward, D. (2003). Understanding structures, Analysis, Materials, Design. Palgrave, 3rd edition.  
 
-Chanakya, A. (2003). Design of structural elements: concrete, steelwork, masonry and timber design to British Standards and Eurocodes. Spon Press, 2nd edition.  
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | 
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| Keywords | Not entered | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Sarah Christian 
Tel: (0131 6)50 5723 
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Course secretary | Miss Lucy Davie 
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687 
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