CIVL33001
Structures 3 (Civil)
10
Semester 1
Undergraduate
Level 3
Andrew Foster
Unit coordinator
1
FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Last part of a Bachelors '
European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 5.0
<p>This unit gives students insight and analysis skills on plastic failure of structures, introduces and defines failure criteria, explains the basis of finite element analysis outworked in stiffness matrix problems and uses lumped parameter models to analysis structural dynamics.</p>
<p>This unit gives students insight and analysis skills on plastic failure of structures, introduces and defines failure criteria, explains the basis of finite element analysis outworked in stiffness matrix problems and uses lumped parameter models to analysis structural dynamics.</p>
<p>To develop further methods for the static elastic analysis for indeterminate structures and introduce methods for the plastic analysis of structures and material failure criteria. To continue the development of the qualitative analysis of structures. To integrate transferrable skills of computer programming taught in previous years through application to structural analysis problems.</p>
<p><strong>1. Plastic Analysis </strong></p><p>Which may include: plastic moment capacity of structural sections; Mechanism based analysis of beams and frames; Instantaneous Centre of Rotation</p><p><strong>2. Stress analysis -or- non-linear analysis</strong></p><p>Material failure theories or simplified non-linear analysis of discrete structural systems.</p><p><strong>3. The finite element method (theory and implementation)</strong></p><p>Theoretical introduction, with implementation developed via computer programming.</p><p><strong>4. Structural Dynamics</strong></p><p>Which may include: free vibrations; natural frequencies; damped vibrations; harmonically forced vibrations; resonance</p><p><strong>5a. Laboratory Experiment</strong></p><p>Failure of portal frames by developing plastic hinges under vertical and horizontal loading</p><p>OR</p><p><strong>5b. Use of computer programming in structural analysis</strong></p><p>Modification and/or development of first-principles computer programmes to solve complex structural/stress analysis problems, deployed as a theme throughout all syllabus components.</p><p><strong>6. Qualitative Analysis</strong></p><p style="margin-left: 7.1pt">Qualitative analysis skills developed previously will be exploited throughout this unit.</p>
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Other
20%
1
Written exam
80%
<p>Other - Assessed tutorial work</p>
<p>Exam - <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><font color="#000000">In line with standard MACE exam procedures.</font></span></p><p>Other - On the day after submission, full detailed solutions are provided for ongoing self-evaluation. At the end of the semester the graded submissions are given specific feedback.</p>
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Pre-Requisite
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MEng (Hons) Civil Eng w Ind Ex
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Mandatory
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