Structural Design

Module code: CEU33A02 · Semester: Semester 1

Resources

• Module descriptor (TCD)

Questions by Year

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• 2025/26
• 2024/25
• 2023/24
• 2022/23
• 2021/22: Paper 1 · Paper 1
• 2019/20
• 2018/19
• 2017/18 (old code CE3A2)
• 2016/17 (old code CE3A2)
• 2015/16 (old code CE3A2)
• 2014/15 (old code CE3A2)
• 2013/14 (old code CE3A2)
• 2012/13 (old code CE3A2)

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Topics

• Limit states, partial safety factors, characteristic and design values LO2
• Material properties of steel, reinforcement and concrete LO1
• Steel tension members LO6, LO9, LO11
• Compression members: buckling, slenderness, buckling curves, M-N interaction LO6, LO9, LO12
• Steel beams: plastic sections, section classification, shear, web buckling and bearing LO4, LO6, LO9–10
• RC beams: cracked sections, singly and doubly reinforced, shear LO3–4, LO6, LO9
• Bolted connections LO5, LO7

Learning outcomes

1. Describe properties of structural steel, reinforcing steel and concrete
2. Distinguish serviceability and ultimate limit states and apply partial safety factors
3. Identify failure types in RC and steelwork and when they occur
4. Describe elasto-plastic response of steel beams and under- and over-reinforced concrete beams
5. Describe failure of bolted steel connections
6. Calculate ultimate resistances of steel and RC members from first principles and codes
7. Evaluate shear and bearing resistance of bolted connections
8. Draw bending moment and shear force diagrams for determinate beams
9. Design steel and RC members for bending, shear, buckling and tension
10. Choose steel and RC beam and column sizes
11. Size members in a steel truss
12. Develop bending-shear and bending-axial interaction diagrams
13. Test steel and RC specimens and compare with theory in a lab report

Summarised from the module descriptor, checked November 2026.