Course Title: Structures 1

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5016

Course Title: Structures 1

Portfolio: SET

Nominal Hours: 40.0

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
CIVE5123	City Campus	TAFE	130T Infra, Electrotec & Build Serv	Face-to-Face

Course Contact: Warwick Brewster

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4334

Course Contact Email: warbrew@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This module will provide the participants with the theoretical knowledge and practical experience required at middle management level for the effective management of office and on site staff.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

ABC086 Structures 1

Learning Outcomes

This course will provide the learner to develop knowledge & skills and able to:
• Outline the terms and SI units commonly used in structures.
• Solve simple co-plannar, concurrent and non-concurrent force systems.
• Describe the properties and behaviour of structural materials.
• Describe the section properties of structural elements and their effect on structural performance
• Describe the performance of beams.
• Determine the bracing requirements for domestic buildings.
• Describe the performance criteria for columns.
• Recognise unsafe practices in the utilisation of simple roof trusses.
• Outline how loads of various types occur and impinge on a building structure.
• Explain the principles of formwork design as relevant to domestic scale building.

Overview of Assessment

By a combination of :
Assignment(s)
Learning outcome tests
Written examination