Posted: December 4th, 2013
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Tingting Dong
Title: Why Buildings Stand
Thesis: What is the mystery or the untold secrets behind the design and construction of a building and why you will leave it standing after your lifetime if it remains undisturbed.
I. Introduction
a) Discuss branches of engineering concerned with building
b) Thesis: What is the mystery or the untold secrets behind the design and construction of a building and why you will leave it standing after your lifetime if it remains undisturbed.
II. Ancient Building
a) Pyramids: The rise and construction of pyramids
b) Reasons for the death of pyramids
Thesis: What is the mystery or the untold secrets behind the design and construction of a building and why you will leave it standing after your lifetime if it remains undisturbed.
I. Introduction
a) Discuss branches of engineering concerned with building
b) Thesis: What is the mystery or the untold secrets behind the design and construction of a building and why you will leave it standing after your lifetime if it remains undisturbed.
II. Ancient Building
a) Pyramids: The rise and construction of pyramids
b) Reasons for the death of pyramids
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c) Analyse the engineering principles that were employed in the construction of pyramids, how they have been carried down and improved over the ages.
IV. Structures
a) Describe a structure: Definition and functions of a structure.
b) Architects and Engineers of Structural building.
V. Important factors to consider in structures
a. Loads – Differentiate between live loads and dead loads and give examples of both.
b. Discuss other loads that result from natural forces e.g. wind loads, earthquake loads and thermal loads.
c. Settlement loads and their significant effect on the final building.
VI. Materials
a) Discuss: Tensional and compressional forces that act on different kinds of structures.
b) b .Elasticity and plasticity of materials in building
c) Factors on the choice of materials and safety factors to consider.
d) Building materials: Steel, concrete, plastics
VI. Structures of Beams and columns
a. Newton’s law and its application on construction of beams and columns.
b. Discuss translational and rotational equilibrium
c. Beam action, shear and buckling.
V. Modern buildings and their engineering
a. Sky-scrappers, The Eiffel Tower, Bridges, The Brooklyn Bridge, Form Resistant Structures, The Unfinished Cathedral, Domes, Hagia Sophia, Tents and Balloons, The Hanging Sky
c) Analyse the engineering principles that were employed in the construction of pyramids, how they have been carried down and improved over the ages.
IV. Structures
a) Describe a structure: Definition and functions of a structure.
b) Architects and Engineers of Structural building.
V. Important factors to consider in structures
a. Loads – Differentiate between live loads and dead loads and give examples of both.
b. Discuss other loads that result from natural forces e.g. wind loads, earthquake loads and thermal loads.
c. Settlement loads and their significant effect on the final building.
VI. Materials
a) Discuss: Tensional and compressional forces that act on different kinds of structures.
b) b .Elasticity and plasticity of materials in building
c) Factors on the choice of materials and safety factors to consider.
d) Building materials: Steel, concrete, plastics
VI. Structures of Beams and columns
a. Newton’s law and its application on construction of beams and columns.
b. Discuss translational and rotational equilibrium
c. Beam action, shear and buckling.
V. Modern buildings and their engineering
a. Sky-scrappers, The Eiffel Tower, Bridges, The Brooklyn Bridge, Form Resistant Structures, The Unfinished Cathedral, Domes, Hagia Sophia, Tents and Balloons, The Hanging Sky
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