3.00

• Numeracy Skill

• Analytical Skill

• Critical Thinking Skill

1) Evaluate structural principal for stress and strain, shear force and bending moment diagram, centre of gravity and properties of section

2) Compute stress and strain relationship of building materials, principal of moment, shear force, and bending moment, centre of gravity, properties of section and principal of parallel axis.

3) Demonstrate good ethics in basic design analysis for simple building structures.

1) General overview on structural behaviour

Types of loading, support, structure and material

Behaviour of beams, columns, trusses, walls and foundations

2) Principles of Moments

Condition of equilibrium

Simple lever system

Calculation of reactions to simple beams

3) Center of gravity

Common figures and their locations of centre of gravity

Calculating centre of gravity to irregular figures by moment techniques

Calculating centre of gravity to hollow structures

4) Shear Force and Bending Moments Diagram

Techniques of drawing the diagram

Relation between the diagrams

Maximum bending moment

Point of contra-flexure

Sign convention

Identify the relationship between negative (hogging) and positive (sagging) bending and, positive and negative shear of a simple beam.

5) Properties of Section

Moment of Inertia (I) / Second Moment of Area

Principles of Parallel Axes

6) Stress, Strain and Modulus of Elasticity Relationships

Unit and types of stress and strain

Elastic Limits

Hooke's Law

Young Modulus of Elasticity

7) Deflection of Beams

Factors affecting deflection

Checking for permissible deflection for beam design

Continuous Assessment : 100 %

• Assignment - 20 %

• Final Test - 50 %

• Individual Project - 30 %

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