Study Guide

Objective

After completing the course, the student can:
- produce the necessary wind loads for a building
- develop all the necessary loads for dimensioning a building and its overall stability
- compile necessary load case combinations for sizing
- develop cutting forces for a hall building with current software
- Understand the difference between a Sway building and a Non-sway building
- understand how the most common ways of stabilizing a building with wood, steel, concrete structures work in practice
- review and analyze an existing building's structures to find out how the building is likely to stabilize
- at least roughly calculate the necessary stabilizing structures for buildings of wood, steel and concrete

Content

- Researching of loads and load cases for a building according to EN1991 and EN1990

- Calculation of cut forces and displacements, for statically indeterminate constructions, with programs
- Theory and calculation of the overall stability of buildings

Materials

Study material and references to literature are shared in Moodle

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Can produce wind load estimates for an entire building. Can describe how a multi-storey building is stabilized. Knows difference on how a building with sway - without sway is constructed
Know the most common load case combinations and can produce the most common load cases.
Can produce all necessary cutting forces for a frame consisting of pillars and trusses, so that the pillar and trusses can be dimensioned.
Can design a frame consisting of pillars and trusses in current material according to Eurocode.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Can find out the necessary forces for sizing a building's stabilizing structures. Knows how a floor layer of hollow slabs is made to function as a stiffening structure. Can calculate the additional forces and supporting forces that arise in the stiffening wall of a multi-storey building.
Can produce the most common load drop combinations.
Can produce all necessary cutting forces, displacements and diagrams for a frame consisting of pillars and trusses, so that the pillar and trusses can be dimensioned.
Can dimension a 3D building frame in current material according to Eurocode, with minor errors.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Can calculate the necessary stabilizing structures for a multi-storey building. Can optimize the use of industrial hall stabilizing bars with or without sway.
Is well acquainted with all common load cases. Can optimize load drop combinations.
Can produce all necessary cutting forces, displacements and diagrams and make a structured whole of the information.
Can properly dimension and optimize a 3d building frame in current material according to Eurocode.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Can produce all necessary load estimates and load case combinations for a building.
Can properly model a frame consisting of pillars and truss beams, given the truss lengths and connections of the truss. Can produce the cutting forces for structural elements included in the frame.
Can explain a common way to stabilize a building of each of the construction materials wood, steel and concrete.

Qualifications

Basics in Construction Statistics,
Strength theory for BUILDING,
Wood Construction 1,
Concrete construction 1
Steel construction 1

Further information

Biannual