A civil design elective building on the steel design portion of CIVE 318. Computer-assisted design using SAP2000 is also covered.

Review of the steel design portion of CIVE 318. Preliminary Design Calculations for Single-Storey Steel Industrial Buildings: design dead loads, gerber beam system, load cases and patterns, deflection, torsional-flexural buckling, truss system, diaphragm system, concentrically braced frames, elastic lateral drift, notional loads, eave members, drift limit check. Beam Bearing Plates & Column Base Plates: design assumptions, concentric axial load, eccentric axial load, combined axial load and moment, lightly loaded column base plate. Combined Axial Tension & Bending, and Axial Compression & Bending: cross-section strength, moment amplification, flexural or lateral-torsional stability. Connections: connections with bolts in tension, prying action, factored tensile resistance of a bolt, co...read more

The same professor as CIVE 318, so the same comments apply.

Same advice as CIVE 318. For the SAP2000 assignments, they are released early so complete early to avoid rushing at the end.

A follow up on the latter half of CIVE 317. This course focuses on designing simple structures using either wood, concrete, or steel according to Canadian design codes. The professor uses his own course pack as a textbook, which can be purchased at copiEUS.

Engineering Design Process: client brief, conceptual design, detailed design, Canadian Standards Association, Limit States Design Design of Wood Structures: wood species, lumber vs. timber, wood grade, material strength factors, member strength factors, designing flexural members, bi-axial bending, designing compression members, designing tension members, combined axial compression and bending, wood selection tables Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures: concrete properties, steel rebar properties, design of reinforced concrete beams, ductile failure mode, resistance factors, non-rectangular cross-sections, minimum reinforcement, rebar spacing, development length, flexural reinforcement, stirrups, simplified method of shear design, flexural deflection, squash resistance of short colum...read more

The professor is very understanding of student needs and tries his best to explain the concepts.

Do the assignments well because exams are just assignment problems but longer. Lectures are heavy so go to tutorials to solidify your knowledge.