Structural Design and Detailing

This module deals with the design and detailing of multi storey building structures both in structural steel and reinforced concrete. Steel angles, both in tension and compression, steel columns and steel beams are designed in semester 1 in accordance with the guidelines recommended in Eurocode 3. Semester 2 deals with the design of reinforced concrete beams and slabs in accordance with the guidelines recommended in Eurocode 2. Reinforced concrete detailing of both slabs and beams is covered, in addition to the preparation of bar schedules using industry standard structural drawings.

1. Describe the procedures associated with the analysis of structural elements so that design may proceed.

2. Compute, with the aid of Eurocode 1, the load size and arrangement for elementary structural elements.

3. Produce, with the aid of Eurocode 2, the necessary design calculations for a simply supported reinforced concrete beam and slab.

4. Produce, with the aid of Eurocode 3, the necessary design calculations for steel struts and ties in a statically determinate pin jointed frame and for steel columns and steel beams.

5. Prepare detail drawings and bending schedules for a simply supported reinforced concrete beam and slab.

6. Prepare detail drawings for a steel truss, beam to beam connections, beam to column connections and column to column connections.