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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

STEN2002 (v.1) Civil Engineering Materials

Area: Department of Civil Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Science Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 308866 (v.1) Civil Engineering Materials 267 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s):     307529 (v.4) Engineering Mechanics 100 or any previous version
    OR
    MCEN1000 (v.1) Engineering Mechanics or any previous version
AND
    307533 (v.3) Engineering Materials 100 or any previous version
    OR
    MAEN1000 (v.1) Engineering Materials or any previous version
AND
    307538 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 140 or any previous version
    OR
    7062 (v.6) Mathematics 101 or any previous version
    OR
    10926 (v.5) Mathematics 103 or any previous version
    OR
    307537 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 130 or any previous version
    OR
    MATH1003 (v.1) Engineering Mathematics 2 or any previous version
    OR
    MATH1010 (v.1) Advanced Mathematics or any previous version
    OR
    MATH1004 (v.1) Mathematics 1 or any previous version
    OR
    MATH1001 (v.1) Engineering Mathematics Specialist 2 or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: Materials: General civil engineering material performance requirements: strength, stiffness, durability, appearance. Concrete: mix design, effects of constituent composition and proportions on fluid state and hardened state properties, concrete placement and curing. Steel: production and properties of steel, steel grades, effect of alloys, protection from corrosion and fire. Timber: properties of timber, defects, durability, grading. Asphalt cements: production and distillation, testing, modifications for particular applications, road tars, durability. Geosynthetics: overview of available materials, geotextile functions and mechanisms, designing with geotextiles. Stresses in materials: review of axial stress and strain; Young's modulus; normal stresses; Poisson's ratio; elastic and plastic section moduli. Composite beams. Shear stress and strain. Biaxial stress systems: Mohr's circle of stress; Mohr's circle of strain, thin-walled vessels; three-dimensional stress and strain; combined stresses due to combined loading; and torsion in circular sections.
Field of Education: 030903 Structural Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2015 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External


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