School: Engineering

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  • Unit Title

    Structural Analysis
  • Unit Code

    ENS3243
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    7
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Alireza MOHYEDDIN KERMANI

Description

This unit provides students with an introduction to the analysis, design and behaviour of structural systems. The unit gives students an understanding of the importance of structural analysis and the tools available to determine the response of a structural system to external loads. Students learn to analyse structural systems for use as part of the built environment. The influence of analysis and design decisions on the economics, constructability and sustainability of structural systems is emphasised.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from ENS1101, MAT1163 OR MAT1251

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Classify determinate, indeterminate, stable and unstable structures.
  2. Analyse determinant structures under moving loads using the concept of influence lines.
  3. Calculate internal actions, and deflections of trusses, beams and frames using both force and displacement methods.
  4. Analyse structures for relevant loads using Australian Standards, with due consideration to load-paths.
  5. Demonstrate effective teamwork through communication and collaboration within a group work setting.

Unit Content

  1. Structural components, forms and connections.
  2. Determination of loads on structures.
  3. Modelling of structural systems and structural elements, idealised structure, load path and tributary area.
  4. Analysis of determinate and indeterminate beams, trusses, and rigid frames.
  5. Influence lines.
  6. Determination of deflections by integration, moment-area, energy and virtual-work methods.
  7. Force method of analysis.
  8. Displacement and matrix methods.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestMid-semester test25%
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory reports (team work) including results analysis and investigation20%
Examination ^End of semester examination55%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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