Units
Civil Materials
Unit code: ENB273
Contact hours: 5 per week
Credit points: 12
Information about fees and unit costs
The unit provides students with a sound and practical approach to material properties and selection so that they may adapt to scientific and technological changes in the variety of products entering the market. They understand where the engineer fits in a quality assurance program and become aware of the numerous components of quality assurance and the costs generated by quality control and assurance. Students become aware of the effect of the working environment on different engineering materials. Among other things, they study the behaviour of concrete from the time it is manufactured to the end of its life, and develop knowledge of the parameters involved in manufacturing good concrete, and the consequences of delivering poor concrete.
Availability
| Semester | Available |
|---|---|
| 2013 Semester 1 | Yes |
Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013
Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.
Rationale
Civil engineers often use and specify a vast range of engineering materials for various projects. The choice of materials used in each project will depend on the conditions and performance requirements of the specific component or system with which the engineer will be engaging. Consequently, the knowledge of the basic properties of the more common engineering materials is essential to make appropriate selection and use of these materials.
Aims
The aim of this unit is to enable your understanding of a variety of materials used in civil engineering applications; including the properties, manufacture and performance characteristics of these materials.
Objectives
On completion of this unit you should be able to:
1. use sound theoretical and practical knowledge across a number of civil engineering materials such as: aggregates, cementitious and pozzolanic materials, concretes, metals, timber, bituminous materials, polymers, and bricks and blocks.
2. follow a sound process for the selection of engineering materials for a specific engineering task.
3. apply technologies and processes used routinely in the production/manufacturing of the materials.
4. understand the importance of material characterisation through laboratory testing; and
5. produce quality technical reports for clients.
Content
Weekly Program:
1 Materials Engineering Concepts
2 Aggregates
3 Cement
4 & 5 Concrete
6 & 7 Timber
8 & 9 Bricks and Blocks - Masonry
10 Steel and Metals and Revision
11 & 12 Bituminous Materials
13 Polymers, Quality Control
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
Teaching Mode: 2 hours/week plus 3 x 2 hour practical/laboratory sessions
Lecture: 2 hrs
Pracs: 3 x 2 hr (Weeks 5 or 6, 7 or 8 and 10 or 11 depending on individual allocation)
Written prac reports are to be submitted as per Assessment item 2 below
Learning Approaches
Learning approaches will include the following:
Self-learning
Individual learning
Team based learning
Experiential learning
Reflective
Assessment
MOPP Statement
The assessment for this unit follows the assessment policy stated in section 9.1.1
Assessment will be based on practical laboratory reports and a final exam comprising both multiple choice and short answer questions. To pass this unit, you must complete all 3 laboratory practicals and submit all practical reports in the form of a Workbook.
A deduction may be applied to wrong answers in the multiple choice exam. However, you will be given a quota for making wrong answers, ie. every student is allowed to make mistakes (without deduction) of up to 20% of the total correct answers.
Assessment name:
Examination (Theory)
Description:
Responses to a combination of multiple choice questions and short answer questions covering all the content material in both the lectures and practicals.
Relates to objectives:
1-4 inclusive
Weight:
60%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Individual
Due date:
Week 13
Assessment name:
Workbook
Description:
Timber Prac: 2 weeks from the date of YOUR final practical session
Concrete Mix Design & Crushing: 1 week AFTER the date of YOUR crushing test.
A record of activities in all practical laboratory sessions completed with diagrams, workings and a detailed description of activities and findings.
Students may work in groups in practicals but individual reports and analysis is to be submitted.
Relates to objectives:
1-5 inclusive
Weight:
40%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Group with Individual Component
Due date:
Week 6 -12.
Academic Honesty
QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.
A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.
Resource materials
Reference Books
· Construction Materials: Their Nature and Behaviour, Peter Domone and John Illston edi,
· Basic Construction Materials, Throdore W et al.
· Construction Materials Manual, Manfred Hegger.
· Construction Materials: types, issues and applications, Caleb Hornbostel.
· Materials for Civil and Construction Engineers, Michael S Mamlouk and John O Zaniewski.
Risk assessment statement
You will undertake lectures and practicals in the traditional classrooms and lecture theatres. As such, there are no extraordinary workplace health and safety issues associated with these components of the unit.
In any laboratory practicals you will be advised of requirements of safe and responsible behaviour and you will be required to wear appropriate protective items (e.g. closed shoes or steel capped shoes). All students are expected to have undertaken a safety induction in first year.
Academic Integrity Statement
You are expected to display complete integrity in all your academic work. In particular, activities such as plagiarism and cheating or any activity designed to defeat the purposes of assessment are breaches of academic integrity. There are other actions or practices which undermine fairness in assessment, such as recycling an item of assessment from one unit or course and using it in another, fabricating or falsifying data, experimental results or sources of information, collaborating with another student about assessable work and representing that as individual work when this has not been contemplated by unit outlines or assessment requirements. QUT's policy on academic dishonesty is at Student Rule 29 (
Details of university definitions of cheating and plagiarism and range of penalties will be provided in the documentation you receive in Week 1.
Additional Costs
you may incur incidental costs in printing lecture notes and web based manuals and using electronic media for information storage.
Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
Last modified: 24-Oct-2012
