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| GCIV0097-1 | Steel and concrete constructions
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| Duration : | 35h Th, 35h Pr, 40h Proj. |
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| Lecturer : | Jean-Pierre Jaspart, Boyan Mihaylov |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| Steel Constructions:
The course constitutes an introduction to steel construction and to the design of the main structural elements of a steel structure. It includes the following subjects:
- Knowledge of the steel material and its fabrication mode
- Steel constructions safety
- Resistance of steel profile cross-sections
- Design of members subjected to tension
- Design of members subjected to compression
- Design of members subjected to bending
- Design of members subjected to compression and bending
- Design of connections
Concrete Structures:
The course on Concrete Structures will cover the following topics:
- Properties of concrete and reinforcing steel
- Behaviour of reinforced concrete members subjected to axial load
- Behaviour of members subjected to pure flexure and flexure combined with axial loads
- Design approach for reinforced concrete members: limit states design
- Design of flexural members
- Design for shear forces
- Design of columns
- Strut-and-tie models for design of reinforced concrete structures
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Steel constructions:
At the end of this course and the exercise sessions, the students will be able to design simple steel structural members with idealised support conditions and subjected to one of the following basic loadings: pure tension, pure compression, simple bending and compression-bending. For this purpose, they will be able to check the necessary resistance and stability requirements at ultimate limit state and the displacement limitations at serviceability limit state.Finally they will be able to check the resistance of connectors used in steel construction.
Concrete Structures:
Students who complete this course will gain a thorough understanding of the behaviour of reinforced concrete members subjected to axial forces, bending, and shear. They will develop skills to predict this behaviour by using simplified engineering approaches. This will provide the basis for the second part of the course where students will learn how to design individual structural members such as beams, columns, and slabs. The design criteria will include strength, ductility, deflections, cracks, and durability. Finally, the students will gain preliminary knowledge of the strut-and-tie approach for the design of joints and members with complex deformation patterns. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Solid and material mechanics |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Steel constructions:
- Theory lessons: 20h (attendance is strongly recommended but not compulsory)
- Exercise sessions: 20h (attendance is COMPULSORY), including 2h test
- Group project consisting in the design of a basic structure.
Exercise sessions are organised during which the concepts taught in the theory lessons are applied. Some exercises will be solved and explained in detail during these sessions while others will be partially or fully solved by the students themselves.
For the group work, a report will have to be handed in at a date to be decided by the teacher. At their request, the students might meet the teacher who has corrected their report to discuss the observed mistakes
Concrete Structures:
The classes will consist of lectures and tutorial sessions with each activity taking approximately half of the class time. The lectures will provide the theory of reinforced concrete while the tutorial sessions will be focused on the application of the theory for the analysis and design of structural members. In the tutorial sessions the students will be shown practical examples and will work on problems under the supervision of the professor and the teaching assistant. Students will be provided with handouts summarizing important information presented in the lectures. Reference books will be recommended for additional reading. As part of the learning process students will also be expected to complete several homework assignments. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face-to-face lecture |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Steel constructions:
For the theory lessons, the students will be given notes covering the whole course contents.
For the exercise sessions, the students will be given an exercise book in which they can find many solved and unsolved exercises
Concrete Structures:
Required readings: class notes and handouts
Recommended readings: to be given in class |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Steel constructions:
An oral examination will be organised at the end of the term, as well as a 2 hours long written examination. For the theory examination, the students will be asked to physically understand the phenomena and be able to explain them instead of repeating the notes content.
An exercise test will be organised. The subject will be the design of members submitted to pure tension, pure compression or bending. After the group work, a report will be handed in and evaluated. The obtained marks will be taken into account to compute the course global mark. A written exercise examination will be organised, for which the students will be allowed to have their books and notes.
Concrete structures:
The evaluation will be based on the homework assignments and a final exam. The final exam will consist of written and oral parts. The oral exam will be used mainly to evaluate whether the student understands the theory of reinforced concrete, while the written exam will be focused on the student's ability to solve practical problems related to the analysis and design of reinforced concrete members.
The global mark for the whole course will be, as a basic rule, evaluated as the mean value of the two individual marks received respectively for the "steel" and "concrete" parts. Should anyway one of the two individual marks be lower or equal to 7/20, a mark equal to this failure mark would be reported for the whole course, knowing that the student would be exempt from passing again the exam for the other part of the course at the condition that he/she has obtained for this part a mark equal or higher to 12/20. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| Steel structures:
The courses will start on November 3rd; six hours per week (Monday, from 16h00 to 18h00 and Wednesday from 8h15 to 12h30) will be devoted either to theory or to exercises
Concrete Structures:
Please note: the course on Concrete Structures is delivered in ENGLISH.
The classes on concrete structures will take place during the first six weeks of the semester up until the 23rd of October 2014. There will be two classes per week: on Mondays from 10:30 to 12:30 and on Thursdays from 8:15 to 12:30. |
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Contacts :
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| Jean-Pierre JASPART, Ordniary Professor, jean-pierre.jaspart@ulg.ac.be
Boyan MIHAYLOV, Assistant Professor,
boyan.mihaylov@ulg.ac.be
Lotfi HAMRA, Research Engineer, lhamra@ulg.ac.be
Nicolas BLAISE, Assistant and PhD Researcher, N.Blaise@ulg.ac.be |
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