COURSE OVERVIEW

 This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using the “MS Excel” application. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of the foundation design for dynamic equipment. It covers the machine types, foundation types and the associated interfaces with piping, cable trays, pipe racks and conveyor systems; the design criteria, static loads, soil mechanics and laboratory and site test for soil samples; the liquefaction and vibration related soil problems; the design of foundations on non-cohesive and cohesive soils; the soil improvement methods, dynamic loads, SDOF systems and MDOF systems; and the free vibration, forced vibration and the response of industrial structures subjected to dynamic loads. 

 

Further, this course will also discuss the earthquake loads, impact loads and machine induced dynamic loads; the equipment structure interaction, modelling and analysis and code provisions including the EQ resistant design of industrial structures; the equipment structure interaction under earthquake loads; and the seismic loads on industrial structures and structural dynamics. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the earthquake resistant design methods, forced based design, displacement-based design and earthquake resistant design methods; the code provisions on EQ resistant design including equipment bearings and seismic isolators against EQ actions; designig base isolators for equipment, vibration bearings for equipment and steel industrial structures; the steel connections in industrial structures, design of steel and concrete industrial structures; the modelling and analysis of EQ resistant steel and concrete industrial structure; the seismic design of non-structural components in industrial plants including the seismic analysis and design of industrial racks, fire sprinkler system, suspended ceilings, electrical equipment and plumbing; the code provisions on EQ resistant steel and concrete structures including the EQ resistant design of non-structural components; and the limitations of computer aided engineering software.