Overview
You will learn analysis of indeterminate structures and the implications this has for structural analysis. You will also determine reactions, internal forces, and displacements of structures and analyse truss and beams with moving loads. You will be introduced to the fundamentals of the structural analysis using the matrix method and you will use commercially available software to analyse structures.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisites: ENEG11006 Engineering Statics and ENEC12012 Stress Analysis
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2021
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
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- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Have Your Say Survey
The number of tutorials, additional video training and example workings were great.
This practice will continue.
Feedback from Have Your Say Survey
There were too many assessments for a 6pc unit.
The number of assessments will be reduced. More feedback will be provided to students to increase the students satisfaction with the assessment feedback.
Feedback from Have Your Say Survey
The concepts are very interesting and the way the unit is broken up into blocks is logical.
This practice will continue.
- Conduct structural idealisation of practical structures
- Analyse statically indeterminate structures to determine support reactions, internal forces, and nodal displacements
- Solve structural analysis problems using software packages
- Analyse indeterminate structure using the direct stiffness method
- Demonstrate a professional level of communication.
The Learning Outcomes for this unit are linked with the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standards for Professional Engineers in the areas of 1. Knowledge and Skill Base, 2. Engineering Application Ability and 3. Professional and Personal Attributes at the following levels:
Introductory
Intermediate
Advanced
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 20% | |||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | |||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 20% | |||||
| 4 - Online Test - 40% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 20% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
| 4 - Online Test - 40% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Structural Analysis in SI Units
Edition: 10th edn (2019)
Authors: Hibbeler, R
Pearson
Harlow Harlow , Essex , UK
ISBN: 9781292247137
Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
Both paper and eBook versions can be purchased at the CQUni Bookshop here: http://bookshop.cqu.edu.au (search on the Unit code).
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Structural analysis software SpaceGass
- Matlab
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
h.baji@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction, Review on Analysis of Determinate Trusses and Beams
Determinacy and Stability
Chapter
Chapter 2: Analysis of Statically Determinate Structures
Chapter 3: Analysis of Statically Determinate Trusses
Chapter 4: Internal Loadings Developed in Structural Members
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Influence Lines for Beams
Qualitative Influence Lines
Influence Lines for Floor Girders
Influence Lines for Trusses
Maximum Influence at a Point due to a Series of Concentrated Loads
Chapter
Chapter 6: Influence Lines for Statically Determinate Structures
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
The Double Integration Method
Moment Area Theorems
Conjugate-Beam Method
Chapter
Chapter 7: Deflections
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Method of Virtual Work and Castigliano's Theorem: Trusses
Chapter
Chapter 8: Deflections Using Energy Methods
Events and Submissions/Topic
Progressive Test #1: The test opens at 9:00 AM Monday of this week and closes at 9:00 PM Monday of next week.
Module/Topic
Method of Virtual Work and Castigliano's Theorem: Beams and Frames
Chapter
Chapter 8: Deflections Using Energy Methods
Events and Submissions/Topic
Progressive Test #2: The test opens at 9:00 AM Monday of this week and closes at 9:00 PM Monday of next week.
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Maxwell's Theorem of Reciprocal
Force Method of Analysis: Beams
Force Method of Analysis: Trusses
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Slope-Deflection Equations
Analysis of Beams
Analysis of Frames: No Sideway
Analysis of Frames: Sideway
Chapter
Chapter 10: Displacement Method of Analysis: Slope-Deflection Equations
Events and Submissions/Topic
Progressive Test #3: The test opens at 9:00 AM Monday of this week and closes at 9:00 PM Monday of next week.
Module/Topic
Moment Distribution for Beams
Stiffness-Factor Modifications
Chapter
Chapter 11: Displacement Method of Analysis: Moment Distribution Method
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Moment Distribution for Frames: No Sideway
Moment Distribution for Frames: Sideway
Chapter
Chapter 11: Displacement Method of Analysis: Moment Distribution Method
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Member Stiffness Matrix
Displacement and Force Transformation Matrices
Member Global Stiffness matrix
Truss Stiffness Matrix
Application of the Stiffness Method for Truss Analysis
Chapter
Chapter 14: Truss Analysis Using the Stiffness Method
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Beam-Member Stiffness Method
Beam-Member Global Stiffness matrix
Beam-Structure Stiffness Matrix
Application of the Stiffness Method for Beam Analysis
Chapter
Chapter 15: Beam Analysis Using the Stiffness Method
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Revision
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Exam date will be posted on Moodle page of the unit.
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Online Quiz(zes)
This assessment task consists of three "Progressive Tests". First, second and third carries 7%, 7%, and 6% marks, respectively. Each test consists of a number of numerical questions.
Important Notes:
- Each Test is set for 60 minutes. You have 60 minutes from when you start your attempt to submit your answers.
- If you start but leave a test and come back to it later, your 60 min time may have lapsed and you will be scored zero for that attempt.
- You can attempt each test up to three (3) times within the given time frame as specified in the schedule.
- The test will be automatically closed after the end of the given time frame.
- The final mark will be the highest of all the attempts.
- Even though the tests are open for a few days, it is expected that your first attempt would be on the first day.
- The Tests cannot generally be deferred. However, under exceptional circumstances, if you have valid reasons to defer the test(s), please contact the Unit Coordinator with documents of proof before the due date.
3
Other
Tests opening and closing details are given on the unit schedule.
Immediately after the test completion.
- Full marks allocated to a question will be awarded for each correct answer.
- No penalty for wrong answers.
- Conduct structural idealisation of practical structures
- Analyse statically indeterminate structures to determine support reactions, internal forces, and nodal displacements
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
2 Written Assessment
The aim of this assignment is to allow the students to demonstrate their understanding of various concepts, theories and processes studied/developed in weeks 1 to 5, which include:
- Influence Lines
- Deflection analysis using double Integration, the moment area and Conjugate-Beam method
- Deflection analysis using method of virtual load
Assignment 1 will be available by end of Week 1 through unit Moodle webpage.
Week 6 Monday (23 Aug 2021) 11:59 pm AEST
Week 8 Monday (6 Sept 2021)
Feedback will be returned two weeks after assignment due date.
Each solution should have the following items:
- Accurate drawing of assumed Sign Conventions, Free-Body and other diagrams as required for the solution. [20%]
- Accuracy in Calculations. [80%]
- All the steps should be explained in full detail.
- A single PDF file with clear and readable working should be submitted.
- Conduct structural idealisation of practical structures
- Analyse statically indeterminate structures to determine support reactions, internal forces, and nodal displacements
- Solve structural analysis problems using software packages
- Demonstrate a professional level of communication.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
3 Written Assessment
The aim of this assignment is to allow the students to demonstrate their understanding of various concepts, theories and processes studied/developed in weeks 6 to 9, which include:
- Analysis of indeterminate structures using force method
- Analysis of beams and frames using the slope-deflection method
- Analysis of beams and frames using the moment distribution method
Assignment 2 will be available by end of Week 6 through unit Moodle webpage.
Week 11 Monday (27 Sept 2021) 11:59 pm AEST
Review/Exam Week Monday (11 Oct 2021)
Feedback will be returned within two weeks after assignment due date.
Each solution should have the following items:
- Accurate drawing of assumed Sign Conventions, Free-Body and other diagrams as required for the solution. [20%]
- Accuracy in Calculations. [80%]
- All the steps should be explained in full detail.
- A single PDF file with clear and readable working should be submitted.
- Analyse statically indeterminate structures to determine support reactions, internal forces, and nodal displacements
- Solve structural analysis problems using software packages
- Demonstrate a professional level of communication.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
4 Online Test
This assessment task is an online test. It consists of a number of numerical questions.
Important Notes:
- The assessment is set for 180 minutes. You have 180 minutes from when you start your attempt to submit your answers.
- If you start but leave a test and come back to it later, your 180 min time may have lapsed and you will be scored zero for that attempt.
- The time frame to complete the test is 24 hours. The start time will be in the exam week and you will be notified about
- the start time on the Moodle page of the unit.
- You can attempt the test up to two (2) times within the given time frame (24 hours).
- The test will be automatically closed after the end of the given time frame.
- The final mark will be the highest of all the two attempts.
- The tests cannot generally be deferred. However, under exceptional circumstances, if you have valid reasons to defer the test, you can apply for exam deferral with documents of proof before the due date.
The exam will be during the exam week period. The exact exam date will be posted on Moodle page of the unit.
Online quiz results will be released after completion of the test.
- Full marks allocated to a question will be awarded for each correct answer.
- No penalty for wrong answers.
- Analyse statically indeterminate structures to determine support reactions, internal forces, and nodal displacements
- Analyse indeterminate structure using the direct stiffness method
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
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