| CODE | CVE1611 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Introduction to Structure Systems | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 3 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Civil and Structural Engineering | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Study-unit Aims: - To introduce the objectives of structural design, including concepts of safety, economy and function; - To introduce the relationship between structural action and structural form. Learning Outcomes: - Ability to identify the type of structural action that particular structural forms facilitate; - Ability to understand levels of safety, and the link between safety and economy, and between safety and serviceability; - Ability to assess existing buildings and characterize the relative structural action. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - An Introduction to Design for Civil Engineers, Narayanan, R.S. & Beeby A.W., Spon Press, 2000 - Building Structures, from concepts to design, Millais,M., Spon Press, 2005 - Why Buildings Stand Up, Salvadori, M., WW Norton & Company, 1987 - Why Buildings Fall Down, Levy, M. & Salvadori, M., WW Norton & Company, 1987 - Developments in Structural Form, Mainstone, R., Architectural Press, 2001 - Structure as Architecture, Charleson, A.W., Elsevier, 2005 - Conceptual Structural Design, Popovic Larsen, O. & Tyas, A., Thomas Telford, 2003 - Principles of Structures, Hanaor, A., Blackwell Science, 1998 - Structure Systems, Engel, H., Hatje Cantz, 3rd ed. 2007 |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Practical | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Jeanette Mireille Abela |
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