GCIV2050-2 : Seismic design

Study Programmes 2015-2016

GCIV2050-2

Seismic design

Duration :

30h Th, 20h Pr

Number of credits :

Master in civil engineering (120 ECTS)		3
Master in civil engineering (120 ECTS)		4

Lecturer :

Hervé Degée, Jean-François Demonceau, Vincent Denoël, Jean-Marc Franssen, Michel Pirotton

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

The course is divided into three different parts having almost the same importance: design and analysis of structures in fire, under seismic loading and, with less details, under several other random actions, natural or resulting from human activity (impact, blasting, wind, floods)

Learning outcomes of the course :

At the end of this class, the student will able to design and analyse a structure under fire or seismic conditions. He/She will have a general knowledge of the legal frame concerning these actions on civil engineering structures. Furthermore, he/she will know the different strategies that lead to a sane structural behaviour in case of major hazard. The lecture develops critical thinking skills and creativity with regards to the unusual load paths that have to be imagined.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Good understanding of strength of materials and of structural mechanics.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Some simple exercices, either demonstrated to the students or to be done by them, about eartquakes and fire.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

First semester, Thursday morning, 8:30 till 12:30