COURSE OVERVIEW

 This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Civil Structural Theories. It covers the scope of structural mechanics, basic principles of structural analysis and the importance in civil engineering; the types of structures and structural systems including forces, loads, and their effects on structures; the stress, strain, and material behavior as well as free body diagrams and equilibrium conditions; the ductile versus brittle failure, yielding and fracture mechanics and fatigue and creep in structures; the beams and bending moments; and the trusses, frames, structural deflections and deformations. 

 

Further, the course will also discuss the axial deformation in bars and columns; the shear stress in beams, torsional effects in shafts and structural elements and combined stress effects in structural elements; the concept of influence lines, influence lines for beams and trusses; the application in bridge engineering and moving load analysis; the stability and determinacy of structures; the energy methods in structural analysis, moment distribution method and slope deflection method; and the matrix method of structural analysis, structural dynamics and vibrations and plastic analysis of structures. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the principles of structural design including factors of safety and design criteria, ultimate load and serviceability considerations and structural performance assessment; the limit state design, working stress design and buckling and stability of structural elements; the reinforced concrete structural design, steel structural design principles, bond and anchorage in concrete structures and corrosion and durability considerations; the seismic design and earthquake-resistant structures, structural health monitoring and rehabilitation; the bridge and high-rise building structural analysis and principles of sustainable structural design; and the recycled materials in structural engineering, energy-efficient structural systems and green building certifications.