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100% Online Unit. NO campus face-to-face attendance is required to complete this unit. All study requirements are online only. Unit is asynchronous delivery, with NO requirement for students to participate online at specific times.
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100% Online Unit. NO campus face-to-face attendance is required to complete this unit. All study requirements are online only. Unit includes some synchronous components, with a requirement for students to participate online at specific times.
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External
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Multi-mode
Multiple modes of delivery. Unit includes a mix of online and on-campus study requirements. On campus attendance for some activities is required to complete this unit.
CIVL5501 Structural Dynamics
- Credit
- 6 points
- Offering
(see Timetable) Availability Location Mode Semester 2 UWA (Perth) Face to face Semester 2 Online Online timetabled - Content
- The objective of this unit is to provide an introduction to dynamic structural response analysis of single degree of freedom (SDOF) and multiple degree of freedom (MDOF) structures to earthquake, blast, wave and man-made dynamic loads. Topics include the free-vibration analysis; vibration frequency and mode shape; damping of structures; harmonic, periodic and arbitrary dynamic loads; estimation of blast, earthquake, wave and man-made dynamic loads on structures; design of structures against these dynamic loads; discussions of the Australian Seismic Loading Code (AS1170.4 2007); discussions on blast-resistant design according to TM5-1300, P-I curve, and man-made (traffic, blasting, soil compacting and pile-driving) ground vibrations and their effects on structures. Students are expected to develop the ability to apply knowledge of fundamental theory of structural dynamics to dynamic structural response analysis and design; achieve technical competence and practical skills in structural dynamics; and undertake problem identification, formulation and solution.
- Outcomes
- Students are able to (1) work effectively in teams; (2) communicate effectively in written technical reports; (3) communicate effectively in an oral presentation; (4) discuss the evolution of the discipline including its history, philosophy and theorising (theories, analysis and evolution of design practice); (5) apply creative thinking and approaches; (6) discuss new developments in the discipline, carry out independent search and evaluate relevant information; (7) demonstrate critical thinking and information literacy; (8) utilise skills in problem identification, formulation and solution; (9) idealise a real structure to a SDOF or a MDOF system; (10) determine the vibration frequencies, mode shapes and damping, and perform modal decomposition and superposition analysis; (11) solve dynamic structural response to harmonic, impulsive and arbitrary loads; (12) design isolation systems to mitigate vibrations; (13) estimate blast, earthquake and wave loads; and (14) analyse and design structures to resist blast and earthquake loads.
- Assessment
- Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) assignments; (2) quizzes; and (3) presentation. Further information is available in the unit outline.Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.
Except where supplementary assessment is not available in a unit, it will be offered to students in all units who:
- Are in good academic standing overall;
- Have passed over half the units taken in the teaching period concerned, except where they are only enrolled in two or less units in the period;
- Have submitted all assessment items in the unit;
- Have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit; and
- No finding of academic misconduct has been made against them in the unit concerned.
Additionally student may apply for supplementary assessment in any unit which is the final unit required for graduation in there course and where they have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit.
- Unit Coordinator(s)
- Winthrop Professor Arcady Dyskin
- Unit rules
- Prerequisites:
- enrolment in the Master of Professional Engineering (MPE) (Civil Engineering specialisation)
- Co-requisites:
- Nil.
- Advisable prior study:
- ENSC3004 Solid Mechanics
- Incompatibility:
- Nil.
- Contact hours
- lectures: 39 hours; practical classes: 26 hours
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