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Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: To be advised.
Corequisite: 702-137 Building Technology 1A
Contact: Up to 6 hours of lectures, tutorials, studio and laboratory work, and site visits per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate that they have developed:
- a technical understanding of the timber-framing and masonry-construction practices common in residential building together with the use of the relevant manuals applicable in Victoria;
- an understanding of the purposes and contents of Australian codes and regulations for building;
- an understanding of the purpose of structure in buildings;
- an understanding of loadings and their resultant forces;
- an understanding of the modes of structural action for a range of simple structural systems;
- an understanding of the structural behaviour of materials;
- techniques for approximating the size of structural members for a range of simple structural systems.
Content:
Construction Practice: Introduction to construction practices and materials (and their detailing) common to domestic-scaled Australian building, along with architectural documentation practices and techniques; consideration of envelope and enclosure together with associated means of support, especially as demonstrated through timber-framed building, masonry wall and concrete floor and footing systems, and some common cladding and lining materials. Structures: Purpose of structure in buildings; taxonomy of elements of structural systems; forces and types of loadings; laws of statics; conditions of equilibrium; concepts of stress and strain; load paths in typical structures; analysis of systems with axial action; trusses; properties of common structural materials; analysis and conceptual structural design of axially loaded members.
Assessment:
Assignments (eg: exercises, essays, class presentations), equivalent to not more than 5,000 words, and one examination of up to 2 hours (which could take the form of a class test). (Details, including the weighting of assessment, will be made available in the first 2 weeks of semester). Exercises may relate to work being undertaken in other subjects.
Prescribed texts:
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (Volume 4 page 41)
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