Australian Guidebook for Structural Engineers

Lonnie Pack

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351769655
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technik & Maschinenbau
• Subtopic: Bauingenieurwesen

This guidebook is a practical and essential tool providing everything necessary for structural design engineers to create detailed and accurate calculations.

Basic information is provided for steel, concrete and geotechnical design in accordance with Australian and international standards. Detailed design items are also provided, especially relevant to the mining and oil and gas industries. Examples include pipe supports, lifting analysis and dynamic machine foundation design.

Steel theory is presented with information on fabrication, transportation and costing, along with member, connection, and anchor design. Concrete design includes information on construction costs, as well as detailed calculations ranging from a simple beam design to the manual production of circular column interaction diagrams. For geotechnics, simple guidance is given on the manual production and code compliance of calculations for items such as pad footings, piles, retaining walls, and slabs. Each chapter also includes recommended drafting details to aid in the creation of design drawings.

More generally, highly useful aids for design engineers include section calculations and force diagrams. Capacity tables cover real-world items such as various slab thicknesses with a range of reinforcing options, commonly used steel sections, and lifting lug capacities. Calculations are given for wind, seismic, vehicular, piping, and other loads. User guides are included for Space Gass and Strand7, including a non-linear analysis example for lifting lug design. Users are also directed to popular vendor catalogues to acquire commonly used items, such as steel sections, handrails, grating, grouts and lifting devices.

This guidebook supports practicing engineers in the development of detailed designs and refinement of their engineering skill and knowledge.

Chapter 1

Setting up the project

This chapter details the typical requirements for a multidiscipline project in Australia. Specific recommendations are based on mining or oil and gas examples. Although all projects are unique, this set of requirements can be consistently applied. The following aspects should all be clearly documented and issued at the beginning of the project. They are essential for the successful completion of a project.

1.Basis of design

2.Scope of works

3.Deliverables list

4.Budget

5.Schedule

6.Communications plan

7.Structural design criteria

8.Specifications

1.1BASIS OF DESIGN

Ideally, the basis of design has already been created by the client and is used as the basis for the scope of works. A basis of design should outline the required functions of a project and what is important for the client. Details should be provided for

1.What the project includes

2.How the project fits into the client’s company

3.Important aspects of the project

4.Any client-driven requirements for the facility

5.How the facility functions

6.The design life of the facility

1.2SCOPE OF WORKS

The scope of works should list each item from the basis of design and detail exactly what is going to be delivered by your organisation. A list of inclusions and exclusions is important to clearly delineate scope. Assumptions may also be listed if they are important for the project. A clear deliverables list is necessary to outline exactly what is being delivered to the client. Budget and schedule requirements may also be provided in a scope.

1.3DELIVERABLES LIST

A clearly defined scope, along with experience in the field, should lead to an accurate and well-set-out deliverables list. A structural deliverables list is generally split into two sections: steel and concrete (Tables 1.1 and 1.2). The easiest way to create a deliverables list is to look at a similar project from the past and use it to estimate the number of drawings and calculations required for each of the items listed in the scope of works. The following is a typical example of what would normally be produced.

Table 1.1Steel deliverables list

Document number	Description
A1-ST-DC-0001_01	Structural design criteria
A1-ST-IN-0001_01	Steel drawing index
A1-ST-SD-0001_01	Steel standard notes
A1-ST-SD-0001_02	Steel standard drawing 2 – Bolted connections
A1-ST-SD-0001_03	Steel standard drawing 3 – Base plates
A1-S...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• SAI GLOBAL
• Contents
• Preface
• Author
• 1 Setting up the project
• 2 Design
• 3 Steel design
• 4 Concrete design
• 5 Geotechnical
• 6 Design items
• 7 Design aids
• 8 Vendor catalogues
• 9 Notations and abbreviations
• References
• Index