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ENEC13017 - Advanced Structural Analysis

General Information

Unit Synopsis

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

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
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).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2020

Term 2 - 2020 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 2 - 2021 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 2 - 2022 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 2 - 2023 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 2 - 2024 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 2 - 2025 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 2 - 2026 Profile
Bundaberg
Cairns
Gladstone
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton

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).

Assessment Overview

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.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 15%
2. Written Assessment 15%
3. Written Assessment 15%
4. Project (applied) 25%
5. Take Home Exam 30%

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%).

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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.

Source: SUTE
Feedback
Students found that the real-world assignments and industry-based content are beneficial for their learning.
Recommendation
This practice should be continued.
Action Taken
This practice was continued.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Provide some additional SpaceGass practice.
Recommendation
More 'watch and learn' resources should be provided for learning the software.
Action Taken
More software training was provided.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Tutorials were helpful though not enough time to go through all the questions.
Recommendation
Tutorials are designed as interactive Q&A sessions with students. It will be communicated to the students that they are expected to review the questions beforehand.
Action Taken
Students were informed that tutorial sessions are used for interactive discussion rather than going through all the tutorial questions. Nonetheless, the solution to all tutorial questions was uploaded on Moodle.
Source: Tutorial Sessions
Feedback
Students appreciated the practical projects used in the assessment, as they found them highly relevant to real-world structural analysis problems. These projects enhanced their understanding by applying theoretical concepts to practical scenarios.
Recommendation
Continue incorporating practical projects into the assessment while exploring opportunities to expand industry-related case studies to further strengthen practical learning outcomes.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Tutorial Sessions
Feedback
Students requested more exemplar questions with full solutions to support their progressive reports. They found that additional worked examples would help clarify concepts and improve their problem-solving skills.
Recommendation
An expanded set of worked solutions covering key topics relevant to the progressive tests should be developed and provided.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Conduct structural idealisation, static, and kinematic indeterminacy and the duality of flexibility and stiffness for practical structures
  2. Analyse statically indeterminate structures to determine support reactions, internal forces, and nodal displacements
  3. Solve structural analysis problems using software packages by applying the finite element method
  4. Develop basic programming skills for analysis of indeterminate structures using the matrix method
  5. Demonstrate a professional level of communication.

The Learning Outcomes are linked to Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competencies and also discipline capabilities. You can find the mapping for this on the Engineering Undergraduate Course website.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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4 - Information Literacy • • • • •
6 - Information Technology Competence • •
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
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