Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE CVE1611

 
TITLE Introduction to Structure Systems

 
UM LEVEL 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL 5

 
ECTS CREDITS 3

 
DEPARTMENT Civil and Structural Engineering

 
DESCRIPTION Study-unit Aims:

- To introduce the objectives of structural design, including concepts of safety, economy and function;

- To introduce the relationship between structural action and structural form.

Learning Outcomes:

- Ability to identify the type of structural action that particular structural forms facilitate;

- Ability to understand levels of safety, and the link between safety and economy, and between safety and serviceability;

- Ability to assess existing buildings and characterize the relative structural action.

Main Text/s and any supplementary readings:

- An Introduction to Design for Civil Engineers, Narayanan, R.S. & Beeby A.W., Spon Press, 2000
- Building Structures, from concepts to design, Millais,M., Spon Press, 2005
- Why Buildings Stand Up, Salvadori, M., WW Norton & Company, 1987
- Why Buildings Fall Down, Levy, M. & Salvadori, M., WW Norton & Company, 1987
- Developments in Structural Form, Mainstone, R., Architectural Press, 2001
- Structure as Architecture, Charleson, A.W., Elsevier, 2005
- Conceptual Structural Design, Popovic Larsen, O. & Tyas, A., Thomas Telford, 2003
- Principles of Structures, Hanaor, A., Blackwell Science, 1998
- Structure Systems, Engel, H., Hatje Cantz, 3rd ed. 2007

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture and Practical

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Assessment Due Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Assignment SEM1 Yes 20%
Examination (1 Hour and 30 Minutes) SEM1 Yes 80%

 
LECTURER/S Jeanette Mireille Abela

 

 
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