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Structural forms, systems and load paths. Modelling and analysis of indeterminate structures. Energy methods and virtual work. Introduction to structural dynamics and the response of structures to earthquakes.
This course helps Civil Engineering students develop the important skill of visualising and computing the manner in which structures respond under the application of external loads. Students are introduced to the different types of commonly encountered structural systems, and the idealisation schemes typically employed to model them. A series of techniques are then developed to analyse structural models and compute the displacements and internal forces induced in them under the action of external static and dynamic loads. The analytical and numerical skills developed in this course are fundamental to the study of advanced Structural Engineering concepts in the 4th year and beyond. Furthermore, the concepts covered are also transferable to other engineering disciplines.The course is split into two parts. The first half covers techniques to analyse the response of simple structures under time-varying dynamic loads. Methods are developed to compute the response of linear single degree of freedom systems under free vibration, periodic loads, pulse loads, and earthquake ground motion. The second part provides an overview of different structural systems and discusses techniques to visualise and compute their response to static loads. It specifically covers statically determinate and indeterminate analysis techniques, energy methods, the principle of virtual work, and the flexibility method of analysis
1. Understand the force and displacement methods of analysis and apply them to analyse indeterminate structural systems; (Washington Accord WA1), (UC EIE3, EIE4)2. Understand the energy concepts and use them to analyse statically determinate and indeterminate structural systems; (Washington Accord WA1), (UC EIE3, BICC1)3. Understand the principle of virtual work and its application in analysing statically indeterminate structures; (Washington Accord WA1), (UC EIE3, EIE4)4. Understand the fundamentals of structural dynamics and apply them to examine the behaviour of single-degree-of-freedom systems subject to simple and complex excitations; (Washington Accord WA1), (UC EIE3, EIE4)5. Understand the applications of structural dynamics in earthquake-resistant structural design principles. (Washington Accord WA1, WA3), (UC EIE3, GA2, BICC1)
ENCN231, EMTH210
ENCI334
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Brendon Bradley
Chin-Long Lee
Assignments• Much of your learning in this course will occur as you work on the assignments! Hence,you are strongly encouraged to start working on them early and ask plenty of questions of thecourse lecturers and tutors.• You may, and in fact are encouraged, to work on the assignments in pairs and submit onesolution for which both you and your partner will receive the same score. If you choose towork in pairs, it is expected that both you and your partner work together on all parts of allproblems, and do not just divvy up the work among yourselves.• Assignments should be submitted electronically on LEARN. If you work in pairs then include the name of your partner on your cover page, and both submit the same assignment under each of your names. Electronic submissions can be typed or scanned versions on handwritten material.• While you are permitted to discuss the problems with other students, you are not permitted tocopy their work. The answers you submit should reflect your own organisation of thecalculations and interpretation of the results. Please indicate on the first page of your solution,the names of the students outside your group whom you collaborated with. Failure to do socould be interpreted as academic dishonesty.• Since this is a professional engineering course, it is expected that your submitted solutions beneat and well organised. Marks will not be awarded for incoherent, untidy, or illegiblesubmissions.o Sketches and free body diagrams must be included where appropriate. They must beneatly drawn either digitally or using a pencil and ruler.o Graphs must be plotted using a computer. They must contain axis labels, units, ticks,grid lines, and a legend where appropriate.• Weekly tutorial attendance will be monitored and is worth a small part toward your finalgrade. This is to incentivise you to attend tutorials to work through problems and obtaingeneral feedback on any part of the course from instructors and teaching assistants.Important notes:• Pass/Fail Criteriao You cannot pass this course unless you achieve a score of at least 40% in the midsemestertest (covering Part 1) and the mid-year exam (covering Part 2).o If you narrowly fail to achieve 40% in either the test or exam, but perform very wellin the other, you may be considered for a pass grade.Special Considerations• The academic remedy for special consideration on the midterm test or the final exam will bean equivalent alternative assessment. These alternative assessments are only available tostudents who have approved special consideration applications for the assessments at anappropriate severity level.• The mark on these alternative assessments will replace the original mark in the course gradecalculation unless the student declines the offer or otherwise does not sit an alternativeassessment, in which case the original mark will be used.• The alternative assessments for this course will be held on-campus in the week of 7 July2025. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are available for these dates if you want tobenefit from the academic remedy for your special consideration.• All communication associated with the arrangements of these equivalent alternativeassessments will be conducted using official UC email accounts. The offer to sit an alternativeassessment will come with a date/time during the resit week. Students will have a clearlyspecified amount of time to respond to the offer. Failure to respond will be interpreted as adeclined offer.• If a student has applied for special consideration but the application has not yet been approvedwhen arrangements are being made for the alternative sitting, they may be permitted to sit thealternative assessment, but the mark will only be applied if the application is approved by thespecial consideration committee at an appropriate severity
Beer, Johnston, DeWolf, Mazurek; Mechanics of Materials ; Fifth/Sixth Edition; McGraw Hill.
Chopra, A K; Dynamics of Structures: Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering ; 4th; Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2012 ((Paper copies available for 3-hour loan from the Engineering Library)).
Clough, R. W., and Penzien, J; Dynamics of Structures ; 2003 (Free digital copy available online)).
All course material will be made available electronically via Learn. You could use the following text books for extra reading on the topics covered:Indeterminate Structural Analysis:• Mechanics of Materials: Fifth/Sixth Edition by Beer, Johnston, DeWolf, Mazurek. McGraw Hill.• Structures: Theory and Practice by MS Williams and JD Todd. MacMillan Press.• Structural Engineering - Vol 2 Indeterminate Structures: by Richard N. White, Peter Gergely and Robert G. Sexsmith. John Wiley and Sons (1976).Introductory Structural Dynamics:• Chopra, A. K. (2012). Dynamics of Structures: Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering (4th ed.). Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. (Paper copies available for 3-hour loan from the Engineering Library)• Clough, R. W., and Penzien, J. (2003). Dynamics of Structures (3rd ed.). Computers & Structures, Inc., Berkeley, CA.(Free digital copy available online)"
All students enrolling in this course undertake that: they will conduct themselves with honour and integrity, both inside and outside the lecture theatres; they will exercise kindness, empathy, and compassion in their interactions with other students, tutors, faculty, and staff; they will not give or receive aid in the competency quiz and the final examination; they will not give or receive unpermitted aid in assignments, in the preparation of reports, or in any other work that is to be used by the instructor as the basis of grading; they will do their share and take an active part in seeing to it that others as well as themselves uphold the letter and spirit of the Honour Code.Examples of conduct that may be regarded as being in violation of the Honour Code include: Representing the work of another as one’s own work Copying an assignment solution from another student or any other source Giving or receiving aid on an assignment under circumstances in which a reasonable person should have known that such aid was not permitted Copying from another student’s quiz or examination paper or allowing another student to copy from one’s own paper Giving or receiving unpermitted aid on a take-home examination Revising and resubmitting an assignment, quiz, or exam for regrading, without the instructor’s knowledge and consentSanctions for violating the Honour Code may range from a fail grade in the course to suspension from the university.Use of generative AI:• There are no restrictions on the use of generative AI for this course’s internal assessments, and we encourage you to harness the power of AI as a virtual tutor for you.• Because of the ability of AI, assignments are inherently a small portion of the course assessment score. You should focus on using the assignments as a means to study the course concepts and applications in order to prepare for the invigilated test and exam.
Special considerations The academic remedy for special consideration on the midterm test or the final exam will be an equivalent alternative assessment. These alternative assessments are only available to students who have approved special consideration applications for the assessments at an appropriate severity level. The mark on these alternative assessments will replace the original mark in the course grade calculation unless the student declines the offer or otherwise does not sit an alternative assessment, in which case the original mark will be used. The alternative assessments for this course will be held on-campus in the week of 8 July 2024. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are available for these dates if you want to benefit from the academic remedy for your special consideration. All communication associated with the arrangements of these equivalent alternative assessments will be conducted using official UC email accounts. The offer to sit an alternative assessment will come with a date/time during the resit week. Students will have a clearly specified amount of time to respond to the offer. Failure to respond will be interpreted as a declined offer. If a student has applied for special consideration but the application has not yet been approved when arrangements are being made for the alternative sitting, they may be permitted to sit the alternative assessment, but the mark will only be applied if the application is approved by the special consideration committee at an appropriate severity level.
Domestic fee $1,190.00
International fee $6,488.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
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