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Level 7
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15 Credits
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0.125 EFTS
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Course duration: 17 weeks
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Workload - Approximately 9 hours per week
This course concentrates on estimating the loads that a structure may be required to carry, designing individual members in steel and timber and designing steel connections.
Structural design is concerned with buildings and other structures such as bridges. A structural design engineer must make decisions about how buildings and other structures will be built, so that they will perform satisfactorily and will not deteriorate rapidly, deflect excessively or, in the worst event, fall down.
What you will learn
When you successfully complete this course you will be able to:
- present defining diagrams and associated discussions and/or calculations relating to structural design in a manner that communicates the logic of the underlying phenomena and processes
- map out the major steps in the total design process
- extract separable structural elements from simple buildings
- model the supports, restraints, continuity and loading conditions on such elements in terms of line load diagrams
- utilise approximate analysis techniques to determine design load effects on indeterminate structures
- explain the logic behind, and apply limit state design
- use relevant industry standards to evaluate structural engineering loads
- determine approximate member sizes in steel and timber for simple situations
- differentiate the material characteristics of timber from those of steel
- determine timber member sizes to industry standards for tension elements, beams and columns
- determine member sizes to industry standards for structural steel tension elements, pure compression elements, and beams
- explain nominated aspects of relevant national building codes.
Assessment
Assessment for this course is:
- 40% internally assessed
- 60% exam.
For more information about exams, including and a full list of exam times see our examinations section.
Textbooks
No textbooks are needed for this course.
Computer and internet requirements
This course is delivered online, so you will access the course and do your study online, which generally includes reading and doing activities, watching videos, downloading content, and writing and submitting assessments online.
For online learning you need:
- Access to a laptop or desktop computer
- Reliable broadband internet and a data plan
Find out more about online learning
If you are unsure if your current computer or internet access will allow you to study online please contact us.