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Major Design Assignment (2020)

This document provides a design brief for a major reinforced concrete design assignment. Students are to design the ground floor slab, columns below ground level, and ground level beams of an 8-storey office building. The design is to include load combinations, required actions, and bending moment, shear, and axial force diagrams. Students must design the floor slab, columns, primary beams, and secondary beams and provide drawings. The design and detailing must follow Australian standards and be presented in a bound report by certain due dates. Late submissions will be penalized. This assignment contributes 30% to the overall subject grade.

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Major Design Assignment (2020)

This document provides a design brief for a major reinforced concrete design assignment. Students are to design the ground floor slab, columns below ground level, and ground level beams of an 8-storey office building. The design is to include load combinations, required actions, and bending moment, shear, and axial force diagrams. Students must design the floor slab, columns, primary beams, and secondary beams and provide drawings. The design and detailing must follow Australian standards and be presented in a bound report by certain due dates. Late submissions will be penalized. This assignment contributes 30% to the overall subject grade.

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WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY

School of Engineering

UNIT: 300736 Concrete Structures

MAJOR DESIGN ASSIGNMENT

Reinforced concrete service and lift core

10000
Slab floor plan

5000

10000 5000
Figure 1: Floor plan of building frame

Design Brief

Figure 1 represents the floor plan of an office building to be constructed in the Central
Business District of Sydney. The building is to be eight storeys in height with each
level being used as an office and with one levels of car park below the street level. Your
team is assigned to design all the columns below the ground level, the ground floor
slab, the ground level beams as shown in Figure 2 in the dotted box.
4000

4000

Street level

10000 5000 Column

Figure 2: Elevation of building frame

Typical floor to floor height = 4 m


Design Information and Requirements

 Beam concrete compressive strength, f’c = 32 MPa (You are allowed to increase f’c
if needed)
 Reinforcing steel strength, fy = 500 MPa (Use N Class bar)
 Slab live load = 3.0 kPa (Imposed load)
 Superimposed dead load = 1.0 kPa (Provision for partitions)
 Concrete density = 24 kN/m3
 Columns are 500 mm x 500 mm
 Beam widths are fixed at 500 mm
 Maximum beam depths should not exceed 1000 mm
 Slab depth is 200 mm
 Reinforced concrete service core is 500 mm in wall thickness
 Concrete slabs are supposed to be built monolithically with the supporting beams
therefore the beams have to be designed as L or T-beams
 All the outer beams have to be designed as continuous beams
 All the calculations have to be presented in the report
 Report submitted has to be the original copy (No scanned copy allowed)

Part 1: Load Combinations: (20 marks)

a) Determine the load combinations for the permanent, imposed and superimposed
loads using AS/NZS 1170.0 and 1170.1 (2002).
b) Determine the required design actions such as M*, V* and N* for slab, column
and beam designs for both serviceability and strength limit states.
c) Provide the required bending moment, shear and axial force diagrams for the
beams, slabs and columns.

Please take notes that wind loads will be resisted by the service and lift core of the
structure which is subcontracted out. (Not required to design by your team)

Part 2: Analysis and Design:

Design all the required members such as the floor slabs, columns and beams and
provide adequate drawings or sketches showing elevations and cross-sections for the
each members.

a) Floor slabs (20 marks)


b) Columns (20 marks)
c) Primary and secondary beams (20 marks)
d) Detailing, report presentation and group management (20 marks)
Additional Information

All design and detailing is to be in accordance with AS 3600 (2018).


All loads are to be determined using AS/NZS 1170.0 and 1170.1 (2002).

Presentation of the Assignment

It should be legible and logically arranged. A typical presentation would contain, in


order: a title page including names of structural engineers involved in the design,
detailing of structural elements in applicable sections, supporting calculations in
each section, and appendices containing any appropriate technical information.

Typing is not required or necessary but neatness and clear presentation is important.
All material should be securely bound into an A4 sized booklet. Where A3 sized
drawings have been used, they should be folded down to A4 size with appropriate title
blocks in the bottom right hand corners facing up.

You are required to prepare and submit a group assignment showing independence in
design. Your submitted design should contain no evidence of copying as this is against
University Rules relating to Academic Misconduct.

Submission Date

There will be two submissions required for this assignment as followed:

Part 1: Load Combinations Due On: Week 6, 12 pm (Fri)

Part 2: Analysis and Design Due On: Week 13, 12 pm (Fri)

Both submissions should be lodged at the Collection box beside Reception Office at
Kingswood Campus in Building XB and Reception Office at Building ED. Late
assignments will be penalised with 10% of the total mark for each parts per
working day.

Assessment

This assignment will contribute 30% of the overall mark of the subject.

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