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Courses Handbook 2013

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2013.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2012.

302784 (v.2) Structural Design 266

Area: Department of Civil Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
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: 3 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):     307538 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 140 or any previous version
    OR
    307537 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 130 or any previous version
    OR
    7492 (v.5) Mathematics 104 or any previous version
    OR
    7063 (v.6) Mathematics 102 or any previous version
AND
308865 (v.1) Structural Analysis 267 or any previous version
AND
308866 (v.1) Civil Engineering Materials 267 or any previous version
AND
    310205 (v.2) Engineering Foundations: Design and Processes 100 or any previous version
    OR
    314231 (v.1) Engineering Foundations: Design and Processes 100 or any previous version
AND
    310206 (v.2) Engineering Foundations: Principles and Communication 100 or any previous version
    OR
    314230 (v.1) Engineering Foundations: Principles and Communication 100 or any previous version
Syllabus: Introduction to design - broad issues of design, design approach, problem solving, types of loads and load factors, limit states, codes of practice. Steel - introduction to steel design, tension members, compression members, flexural members, connections and splices, and built-up girders. Timber - Design of beams, columns, tension members, members in combined bending and direct actions, glued laminated members, joints, connections.
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.
Field of Education: 030903 Structural Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2013 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2013 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 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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