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Application of timber in Engineering Structures - Design Assignment

Assignment Details - This assignment covers the main design competencies required for undertaking a commercial timber building design project. To complete the assignment, students are expected to put considerable amount of work including research to find relevant information to complete the design successfully.

What is required?

You are required to undertake the detail structural design of a 40m x 24m office building (2 storey) located in Sydney (Wind Terrain Category 3). Details of the required building plan and elevation is given in the attached drawing. The structural importance of the building is classified as normal. The design brief will require you to prepare options for each design stage and make recommendation on the preferred option.

You must design the building to conform to AS/NZS 1170 for gravity and wind loads, to meet SLS and ULS criteria. Since the wind loads are more critical than seismic, you are not required to design for earthquake events.

The available material is generally classified as (i) Grade 11 pine LVL, either 45mm or 63 mm thick - sourced from Australia or New Zealand and (ii) 3, 5 or 7 layered CLT panel options are available from XLam New Zealand.

You may assume that the foundations and basement masonry walls / retaining walls will be designed by others. The structural system for the building is essentially post and beam and / or portal construction with appropriate lateral bracing. All other walls are non-load bearing and as such, you do not need to design the infill walls.

You must design each of the design alternatives/options and make decision on your final choice/recommendation before moving to the next step.

Flooring - 2 options required (both simply supported single span):

Floors must be designed to resist an imposed load of 3 kPa distributed loads, in conjunction with a 3.5 kN concentrated load.
Option 1 - a Timber composite floor spanning up to 8 m.
Option 2 - a CLT floor spanning up to 8 m.
All floor options must be designed for a deflection limitation of span / 300 for a short term SLS load of 0.7 Q.
Design suitable floor support beams (spanning between columns / portal frames) to support the main floor.
Provide specification / details for acoustic / fire separation to meet a 60 minutes FRL fire rating.

Framing - 2 options required:

Option 1 - floor beams, columns and bolted roof trusses. You only need to design the standard truss- do not worry about the corner ridges.
Option 2 - a gable portal frame (with floor beams as required) over the entire building. Whilst the architectural drawing gives guidance on the roof pitch, variation to it is acceptable as long as the roof height is not exceeded. You also have the flexibility to decide on the column / frame spacing.
Design suitable lateral bracing in both directions to resist horizontal wind loads.

Connections:

Design connections for both framing options, noting the portal connections must be moment resisting and the truss connections must be bolted.
Design all floor to beam and beam to column connections.

Submit a soft copy of the following -

A professional design report that includes:

An executive summary
Summary of all design assumptions, including loads
A summary table indicating the selected member sizes for each major structural element, including connections
Detailed calculations for all members and connection presented in an appendix

CAD drawings - Should be drawn to scale and show preliminary design details for the structural elements of floor, wall and roof framing, bracing and connections.

Specification Sheet - A specification sheet should accompany the drawings and present any specific design assumption that a builder would need to know in order to construct the building.

Note - Need only report for flooring part which is in assignment brief which attached. Need calculations all in excel sheets attached separately? Need calculation for two separate flooring options that is lvl and clt and choosing best among them design of suitable floor support beams and there calculations to support main floor vibration check and provide detail for acoustic and fire separation to meet 60 minutes of frl fire rating.

Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar

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5/30/2019 2:58:42 AM

I need to make clear that i need only report for flooring part which is in assignment brief which I have attached I need calculations all in excel sheets attached separately I need calculation for two separate flooring options that is lvl and clt and choosing best among them design of suitable floor support beams and there calculations to support main floor vibration check and provide detail for acoustic and fire separation to meet 60 minutes of frl fire rating and when I get report I need all excel sheet separately attached thank you waiting for reply as early as possible waiting for your response.

5/30/2019 2:58:36 AM

This is a group assignment. However, each student is required to contribute to every part of the assignment. Each group must maintain a spread sheet/journal to record time and work completed and a group feedback survey will be conducted at the time of final report submission. If evidence that one or more students have not contributed to the team effort is found, the students who do not contribute will be penalised and receive a proportionally lower mark or in the worst case, will get ‘0’ mark for the assignment. Students will be allocated to working groups of 5 or 6 students on a random basis. Group list will be uploaded to UTS_Online. The assignment must be submitted by the due date. Late submissions will attract mark deductions.

5/30/2019 2:58:31 AM

All the submissions should submitted by uploading it on UTS_Online before the due date. Each group can nominate one member to upload the soft copies. The report should be compiled into a single file (word or pdf version) and supporting documents e.g. appendices, worked examples, etc can be submitted as separate file. No hard copy submission is required. Note: There is no “single” correct solution to this design exercise. However, your solution must be safe, meet the functional and serviceability requirements and be economical. Marks will be awarded on the basis of meeting these 3 criteria.

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