Explore deflection due to wind loadings, on fixed structures, and strategies to resist wind loading.

Advance Structural design

Learning Outcome 1:Explore deflection due to wind loadings, on fixed structures, and strategies to resist wind loading. LO2 Determine bending, shear and deflection for complex support conditions.

Learning Outcome 2. Design complex columns and piled foundations based on calculations.

LO4 Explore the design of tensile structures.

Learning Outcome 3 Explore the design of tensile structures.

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 ofboth. 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.