Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify structural requirements and loads commonly used in structural design.
- Assessment of structural requirements relating to equilibrium, stability, strength, functionality, economy and aesthetics is undertaken.
- Different types of loading and unloading methods and the effect on structures are identified and documented in accordance with BCA, relevant Australian standards, suppliers' technical data and empirical methods and adherence to legislative requirements for BCA Class 2 to 9 buildings.
- Analyse effects of force and moments on structural elements.
- Analyse properties and behaviour of structural materials.
- Identify section properties of structural elements and their effect on structural performance.
- Cross-sectional geometry and common structural shapes are identified.
- Section properties and the relationship between first and second area moments, section models and gyration and deflection of beams are identified and compared for performance.
- Section properties' values for I (moment of inertia), Z (section modulus) and R (radius) for common sections are determined using tables or standard formulas and compared for performance.
- Compare performance and properties of spanning elements.
- Structural considerations of loaded spanning elements for bending moments, shear forces, deflection and torsion are determined and compared for performance.
- Bending behaviour and performance of loaded support beams of various types, shapes, spans and loads are determined and compared for performance.
- Effects that connections have upon the structural performance of beams are identified and compared for performance.
- Principles of slab behaviour in relation to spans and stress distribution are identified and compared for performance.
- Compare performance criteria for columns.
- Effect of slenderness ratio that changes in length, cross-sections, connections and materials will have on the strength of a column is determined and compared for performance.
- Eccentric and axial load effect on the strength of column section and materials are determined and compared for performance.
- Compare methods of stress distribution in connections between structural elements.
- Determine how loads of various types occur and impinge on a building structure.
- Differences between types of loading, including dead load, live load, wind load, earthquake load and other load, causing actions are determined and compared for performance.
- Dead loads are determined using BCA and relevant Australian standards.
- Indication of direction of wind pressures on the various surfaces of buildings specified in BCA and relevant Australian standards are determined.
- Evaluate design of high performance structural elements.
- Factors that determine the form of long span structural elements, including bending movement, deflection and shear forces, are researched, considered and evaluated.
- Performance in high performance structural elements is identified and evaluated.
- Use of steel to reinforce concrete is investigated and evaluated and the outcomes or results are recorded.