Courses Handbook 2006 - [Archived]

308866 (v.1) Civil Engineering Materials 267


Area:

Department of Civil Engineering

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

5.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

2 x 2 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly

Prerequisite(s):

307529 (v.2) Engineering Mechanics 100 or any previous version
AND
307532 (v.1) Engineering Communications 100 or any previous version
AND
    307537 (v.2) Engineering Mathematics 130 or any previous version
    OR
    307538 (v.2) Engineering Mathematics 140 or any previous version
AND
307540 (v.1) Engineering Computing 100 or any previous version
AND
309123 (v.1) Engineering and Professional Studies SS 100 or any previous version
 

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, modificationsfor 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; 3D stress and strain; Combined stresses due to combined loading; torsion in circular sections.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

030903 Structural Engineering

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2006 Bentley 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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