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| GCIV2032-1 | Design and means of erection of structures and bridges
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| Duration : | 30h Th, 30h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Jean‑Marie Cremer, Jean‑Marc Franssen |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | This course is made of two successive and complementary parts.
The first part is dedicated to the design of structures in general. The most common structural systems are examined and their functioning is explained. The adequacy of the most common building materials with these different systems is discussed.It is explained how to choose the general shape of a structure and their main dimensions. Are described in details: bars in compression, bars in tension, systems with cables, arches, plane and tridimentional trusses, beams and bracing systems.
The second part is dedicated to the design and methods of erection of bridges. The different types of bridge are examined on the base of their structural system: girder bridges, arch bridges, tied arch bridges, portal bridges, cable stayed bridges, suspended bridges, etc. The domain of application is given for each conventional building material. For each solution are given some means to make a quick preliminary design and the possible means of erection.
One lecture is used to show to the students how to treat a real problem, namely a feasability study as could be made by a design office. |
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| Course objective : | To give to the students a library of structural solutions for which the functioning and the best domain of application have been explained. The student should then be able to select an appropriate solution when being faced with a design to perform.
To give to the students the knowledge of the main types of bridges and the necessary tools, so that they will be allowed to compare and to choose among different possible solutions when a bridge has to be built in a particular location. |
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| Prerequisites : | Good notions of structural mechanics. |
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| Workshops : | The students must design a structure. They have all freedom of choice but the structure must comply with the general requests given by the hypothetical future owner of the structure.
On the bases of the feasability study that has been shown for a bridge, a practical exercice of the same type is proposed to the students. |
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| Organization : | Timeschedule in 2007-2008
On Wednesday morning, from Febr. 6 to Mai 14. |
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| Written notes : | Written notes are available, but it is strongly recommended that the students attend the lectures. |
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| Assessment : | The final mark is the average of the marks of each of the two parts.
The mark of the first part is made of some small tests made during the lectures (30%), of some comments to be made by the student on a particular existing structure that he has chosen (30%) and of the structure that the has designed (40%).
The mark of the second part is based on the answers given by the students to two questions asked to him on the day of the examination. The first one deals with the knowledge of the fundamental principles that have been explained during the lectures (70%) and the second one is the analysis, from photographs, of an existing bridge (30%). |
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| Contacts : | jm.franssen@ulg.ac.be, +32-4-366.92.65
jmcremer@greisch.com |
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