CIVIL ENGINEERING ORIENTATION LECTURE WHAT DO THEY DESIGN?
LESSON NO. 5 - STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING • Structural Engineers design/analyze
structures
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS A STRUCTURE?
o STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
• a specialty within the field of civil • A system designed to resist or support loading
engineering — focuses on the framework of and dissipate energy
structures, and on designing those o BUILDING STRUCTURES
structures to withstand the stresses and ✓ Houses
✓ Skyscrapers
pressures of their environment and remain
✓ Office Buildings
safe, stable, and secure throughout their
✓ Warehouses
use.
✓ Factory
o In other words, structural engineers make sure
✓ Schools
that buildings don't fall, and bridges don't ✓ Hospitals
collapse. ✓ Anything designed for continuous
o Old infrastructure such as Hanging Gardens of human occupation
Babylon, the Parthenon, or the aqueducts of the o NON – BUILDING STRUCTURES
Roman Empire, designed by unknown earliest ✓ Bridges
practitioners. ✓ Tunnels
o Prominent structural engineers include Gustave ✓ Dams
Eiffel (Eiffel Tower, Statue of liberty) and Eoro ✓ Towers
Saarinen (Gateway Arch). WHAT ARE THE ELEMENTS OF STRUCTURES TO
o Structural engineers often work alongside civil BE DESIGNED?
engineers and architects as part of a
construction team. • COLUMNS
• it is a vertical structural member intended to
o According to the Institution of Structural
transfer a compressive load example, a
Engineers, “if a structure was a human body,
column might transfer loads from a ceiling,
then the architect would be considered with the
floor, or roof slab or from beam floor or
body shape and appearance, and the structural
foundations.
engineer would be concerned with the skeleton • BEAMS
and sinews”. • it is a structural element that primarily
WHAT DOES A STRUCTURAL ENGINEERWHAT resists loads applied laterally to the beam’s
DOES A STRUCTURAL ENGINEER DO? axis.
• The loads applied to the beam result in
DESIGNER reaction forces at the beam’s support
• CONSULTANT points.
• Take a design, and fit a structural system to • PLATES
that • it is a structural element which is
• Expert witnesses in lawsuits characterized by a three-dimensional solid
• INSPECTOR whose thickness is very small when
• Fieldwork, Job site inspections compared with other dimensions.
• Oversee the materials (concrete, steel, etc.) • ARCHES
• Inspect the building – pre and post • it is a curved structural form that carries
construction loads around an opening, transferring them
• DEMOLITIONS around the profile of the arch to abutments,
jambs, or piers on either side.
• Building deconstruction
• Structural Retrofits
LESSON NO. 5 - STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING • Structural Engineers design/analyze
structures
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS A STRUCTURE?
o STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
• a specialty within the field of civil • A system designed to resist or support loading
engineering — focuses on the framework of and dissipate energy
structures, and on designing those o BUILDING STRUCTURES
structures to withstand the stresses and ✓ Houses
✓ Skyscrapers
pressures of their environment and remain
✓ Office Buildings
safe, stable, and secure throughout their
✓ Warehouses
use.
✓ Factory
o In other words, structural engineers make sure
✓ Schools
that buildings don't fall, and bridges don't ✓ Hospitals
collapse. ✓ Anything designed for continuous
o Old infrastructure such as Hanging Gardens of human occupation
Babylon, the Parthenon, or the aqueducts of the o NON – BUILDING STRUCTURES
Roman Empire, designed by unknown earliest ✓ Bridges
practitioners. ✓ Tunnels
o Prominent structural engineers include Gustave ✓ Dams
Eiffel (Eiffel Tower, Statue of liberty) and Eoro ✓ Towers
Saarinen (Gateway Arch). WHAT ARE THE ELEMENTS OF STRUCTURES TO
o Structural engineers often work alongside civil BE DESIGNED?
engineers and architects as part of a
construction team. • COLUMNS
• it is a vertical structural member intended to
o According to the Institution of Structural
transfer a compressive load example, a
Engineers, “if a structure was a human body,
column might transfer loads from a ceiling,
then the architect would be considered with the
floor, or roof slab or from beam floor or
body shape and appearance, and the structural
foundations.
engineer would be concerned with the skeleton • BEAMS
and sinews”. • it is a structural element that primarily
WHAT DOES A STRUCTURAL ENGINEERWHAT resists loads applied laterally to the beam’s
DOES A STRUCTURAL ENGINEER DO? axis.
• The loads applied to the beam result in
DESIGNER reaction forces at the beam’s support
• CONSULTANT points.
• Take a design, and fit a structural system to • PLATES
that • it is a structural element which is
• Expert witnesses in lawsuits characterized by a three-dimensional solid
• INSPECTOR whose thickness is very small when
• Fieldwork, Job site inspections compared with other dimensions.
• Oversee the materials (concrete, steel, etc.) • ARCHES
• Inspect the building – pre and post • it is a curved structural form that carries
construction loads around an opening, transferring them
• DEMOLITIONS around the profile of the arch to abutments,
jambs, or piers on either side.
• Building deconstruction
• Structural Retrofits
