Module Details
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Title STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT 1
Code CIVE133
Coordinator Mr MJ Bather
Civil Engineering and Industrial Design
M.J.Bather@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2019-20 Level 4 FHEQ Whole Session 22.5

Aims

This module introduces students to the role of the Structural Engineer and fundamental principles and concepts that form the basis of structural engineering. The emphasis is on:
- Understanding how Newton’s Laws apply to structural engineering
- Understanding the function of a structure in terms of safety, functionality, durability, sustainability and resiliance
- Understanding typical loads acting on stuctures
- Understanding how materials resist loads
- Awareness of common materials used by structural engineers and their application
- Awareness of structures in the real world, how they resist loads and why they behave as they do
- Experience using structural analysis software (and the importance of hand-checking)

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Awareness of how statics and dynamics apply to structural engineering

(LO2) Understanding the functions of a structure in terms of safety, functionality, durability, sustainability and resilience

(LO3) Understand the loads acting on structures

(LO4) Understand and identify tension, compression, bending moment, torsion and shear

(LO5) Awareness of deformation in structures and how this is influenced by stiffness

(LO6) Understand and identify determinate and indeterminate structures

(LO7) Solve simple determinate structural problems

(LO8) Understand how and why materials resist loads

(LO9) Identify typical structural engineering materials and their application

(LO10) Identify real world structural systems and understand why they behave the way they do

(LO11) Experience using structural analysis software

(LO12) Understanding the effects of different restraints on the structures, e.g. rollers, hinges, fixity, etc and how these concepts are realised in practice

(S1) Problem Solving

(S2) Information Technology (Application of)

(S3) Communication

(S4) Team Working

Syllabus
 

- The role of the Structural Engineer in Civil and Architectural Engineering
- Introduction to loads and loadpaths (referred to as “Structural Mechanics”)
- Introduction to common materials used by structural engineers and how these resist loads
- Introduction to Structural Systems
- Introduction to Computational Structural Engineering

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Teaching Method 1 - Lecture
Description: Class Based Lecture
Attendance Recorded: Yes

Teaching Method 2 - Laboratory Work (within Centrally Managed Year 1 Labs)
Description: Laboratory experiments (typically 2) to reinforce theory
Attendance Recorded: Yes

Teaching Method 3 - Tutorial
Description: Tutorials (typically 3) to practice application of theory
Attendance Recorded: Yes

Teaching Method 4 - Computer Laboratory
Description: Experience of using structural analysis software
Attendance Recorded: Yes

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 40

   6

 26

   8

 80
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 145
TOTAL HOURS 225

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
End of Module Exam There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When) :End of Module  3 hours    50       
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
A portfolio of post-laboratory reports (typically 2), Online tutorials (typically 3) and other assessed activities (typically 1) - See Module Briefing Sheet issued in Week1 Standard UoL penalty appli  35 hours Total (incl    50       

Recommended Texts
Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module.