BUILDING STRUCTURES II

Course Code: SC 423

Units: 8
 LECTURE 1

INTRODUCTION
1.1 Course Objective:

To provide Students with wide

knowledge and skills in design and
construction of structural members and
components
1.2 Expected Learning Outcome:

At the end of this course a student will be

able to understand how to design and
construct structural members and
components.
1.3 Learning Contents:

 Design of reinforced concrete structural members:

(Beams, normal slabs, ribbed slabs, columns).
 Design of foundations:
(Types of foundations, calculation of forces, design of
foundations).
 Retaining walls:
(Types of retaining walls, calculation of forces, design
of retaining walls).
 1.3. Course Contents (cont..)

 Shear wall and frame systems (lateral stability and

frame action).
 Compression structures: Shells and Domes. Plates,
(Theory of plates-plates-plain, folded or curved)
 Design of steel structures: trusses, joints.
 Pre-stressed concrete: production of pre-stressed
concrete, properties of pre-stressed concrete,
application of pre-stressed concrete.
 1.4 Delivery Mode:

 30 hours lecture and 15 hours Tutorials

1.5 References
1.5.1 British Standards Institution (1997): BS 8110 Part 1: Structural Use of
Concrete: Code of Practice for Design and Construction, British
Standards Institution, London
1.5.2 CP3: Chapter V, Loading Part 2: Wind Loads(1970)

1.5.3 British Standards Institution (1984): BS 6399: Loading of Buildings: Part

1: Dead and Imposed Loads. BSI, London

1.5.4 T. J. McGinley and B. S. Choo, Reinforced Concrete Design and Theory,

2nd Edition, 2003: Spon Press
 References…………………………… cont.

1.5.5 C.E. Reynolds, J.C. Steedman, 2003, Examples of the Design of

Reinforced Concrete Buildings to BS8110, Fourth Edition, CRC

1.5.6 W. H. Mosley and J. H. Bungey, 1999, Reinforced concrete

design, 5thEdition, Palgrave Macmillan
1.6 Integrated methods of Assessment:

 Continuous Assessment 40%

 End of semester Examination 60%