Advanced Structural Design
SCENARIO
The Client who is a private investor needs a three storey, framed college building. The building frame
provides the structure for a series of high specification lecture rooms , exhibition hall and meeting
rooms which are intended to be built in the south of England, around Heathrow Airport. The college
block can be developed with steel or concrete or a combination of both. The college block has a plan
dimension of 50m by 30m. Height of each storey is 3m. The span of the beams and columns can be
chosen based on RC or steel frame. Outside the college building, there is a space to be used for
exhibitions which needs to be covered with a tensile structure.
- Explore deflection due to wind loadings, on fixed structures, and strategies to
resist wind loading. - Determine bending, shear and deflection for complex support conditions.
- Design complex columns and piled foundations based on calculations.
- Explore the design of tensile structures.