ENCN213-15S2 (C) Semester Two 2015

Design Studio 1

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 13 July 2015
End Date: Sunday, 15 November 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 24 July 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 9 October 2015

Description

Loads and load paths in buildings and bridges. Design calculations for timber and steel structures. Engineering drawing. Construction and testing of simple structures.

Introduction to civil engineering design, engineering drawing, timber design and integrated design concepts.

This course consists of two design projects; a simple building and a bridge.

The building design project involves:
1. Calculating the design loads
2. Calculating the strength demand
3. Designing beams, columns, walls and bracing systems
4. Testing wood specimens: beams; columns
5. Engineering drawings and 3D sketches

The bridge design project involves:
1. Choosing the optimal structural form of the bridge
2. Building and testing small spaghetti models of the bridge to check global stability
3. Testing the materials to be used for the bridge
4. Estimating construction time and cost
5. Design and drawings of the bridge
6. Bridge construction and testing

The bridge design project will be done in groups of four or five students, while the building design project is an individual assignment. Both the bridge and the building are to be designed using timber or wood-based products as the main structural material.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Dean of Engineering and Forestry

Restrictions

ENCI211

Course Coordinator

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Group Assignments 20%
Individual Assignments 30%
final exam 100%
Test 1 25%


The assessment for this paper will comprise three components – assignments, a mid-term test on the first part of the course and a final test on the second part of the course.

Note: Every item of assessment must be competed satisfactorily in order to pass the course.  
The combined test mark must be above 40% to pass this course, regardless of term marks.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $874.00

International fee $4,725.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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