TEAM TENT SEM

STRATEGY

YEAR THREE SEM ONE

TCBE 3101: DESIGN OF REINFORCED AND PRE-STRESSED CONCRETE
STRUCTURES
TCBE 3102: HYDRAULICS AND HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES
TCBE 3103: CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY III
TCBE 3104: DESIGN OF GEOTECHNICAL STRUCTURES
TCBE 3105: MEASUREMENT OF BUILDING WORKS
TCBE 3106: HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING
TCBE 3107: SPECIFICATION WRITING

Detailed Course Description

DESIGN OF REINFORCED AND PRE-STRESSED CONCRETE STRUCTURES
1. Introduction to Limit State Design: (2 hours)
Ultimate limit state: considering Strength, stability and robustness
Serviceability limit state: Deflection, Durability (fire and corrosion resistance), Vibration
Material properties for steel and concrete and partial safety factor for materials.
Design Standards: Historical review, Elastic Analysis; CP114, Limit state Design; CP110 and
BS 8110
Loading: dead, wind , imposed and notional loads , load combinations and Partial safety
factors for loads
Robustness & Design of ties, Importance of robustness in explosions and terrorists attack.
Analysis of framed structures using moment distribution and computer applications
2. Design of Beams: (8 hours)
Simply supported & continuous beams; (loading, analysis, moment redistribution)
Analysis of beams : Assumptions, parabolic & Rectangular Stress blocks
Singly reinforced beams: Moments of resistance, balanced, under and over reinforced
section, Design of section using analytical & design charts.
Design of Doubly Reinforced beams
Design of Flanged beams; with Neutral axis in the in web or flange
3. Shear Bond & Torsion: (3 hours)
Shear strength of a reinforced concrete beam without links
Shear resistance of links
Shear resistance of Bent up bars
Shear in slabs
Local bond, Anchorage bond and length
Hooks, bends, laps, joints
Torsion analysis, Torsion shear stress & reinforcement
4. Design of slabs: (7 hours)
Classification of slabs based on: Nature of support (simply supported, continuous, flat slabs),
Direction of support (One way and two way supporting), Type of section (solid, hollow
blocks, ribbed slabs),
Design of main and secondary slab reinforcement in one way (solid & ribbed/hollow block)
slab, and two-way slab
Checking for Shear control in slabs
Checking for Deflection control in slabs
Checking for Cracking control in slabs
Anchorage and detailing
Introduction to Yield line method
5. Design of Staircases; A special type of slopping slabs: (3 hours)
Classification of stairs into transverse and longitudinal spanning,
Relevant Building regulations, determination of staircase loading and analysis of staircases,
Design of main and provision of distribution steel, checking for shear, deflection, cracking.
Detailing of and anchorage.
6. Design of Columns: (7 hours)
Classification: (short & slender columns, Braced & unbraced columns)
Section analysis
Design of short Columns subjected to only to axial loads
Design of short column subjected to axial loads & uniaxial bending using charts.
Design of short columns subjected to axial loads & biaxial Bending; (Analytical use of
charts)
Design of slender columns
Checking columns for shear strength.
7. Design of Walls: (2 hours)
Functions Types & loads on walls
Design of Reinforced concrete walls
Design of plane concrete walls
8. Design of foundations: (3 hours)
Design of axially loaded pad bases; determination of pad size and depth, Design for moment
steel, checking for Vertical and punching shear.
Discussion of Eccentrically loaded pad bases
Discussion of Design of Raft, strip and combined foundations
Discussion of Pile foundations
9. Retaining wall structures: (3 hours)
Earth Pressure and Types of retaining walls
Discussion of design of cantilever walls
Discussion of design of Counterfort retaining walls
10. Introduction to Pre-Stressed Concrete: (7 hours)
Advantages prestressed concrete
Pretensioning and Postensioning
Design of prestressed beams for Serviceability limit state and ultimate limit state.
Stress loss at transfer for beams

HYDRAULICS AND HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES

1. Hydraulics
Flow in open channels, steady and unsteady flow, the Chezy and Manning Equations.
Specific energy, critical depth, hydraulic jumps, pressure transients, surge tanks. (4 hours)
Pipe flow: understand concepts of laminar and turbulent flow, energy equations, estimation
of friction losses, hydraulic and energy grade line concept. (4 hours)
Pipe network design: series, parallels, branched and loop pipe networks. (5 hours)
Description of different hydraulic machines. (4 hours)
2. Hydraulic Structures
Dams: Types, choice of type of dam, forces acting on dams, requirements of stability, causes
of failure. (3 hours)
Gravity dams: Non-overflow and overflow types, single step and multistep design, different
types of spillways and their design principles, stress concentration around openings in dams.
(3 hours)
Arch dams: Types, loads on arch dams, cylinder theory – constant radius, constant angle,
variable radius types, principles of elastic theory and Trial load method of analysis.
(3 hours) Buttress dams: Components, advantages and disadvantages, types, forces,
theory of buttress design, buttress spacing and buttress construction details. (3
hours)
Earth dams: Requirements of safety, seepage, construction of seepage line for different
conditions, seepage control methods, stability analysis for different conditions, factor of
safety against foundation shear, details of method of construction of earth dams, maintenance
and treatment of common troubles in earth dams. (4
hours)
Appurtenance works: Design principles of various types of crest gates, stilling basins, and
drainage galleries. (3 hours)
Water hammer analysis and design of surge tanks, penstocks, draft tubes and scroll cases.
3. Hydrology
Hydrological cycle: hydrometeorology rainfall, draught, evaporation, infiltration, soil
moisture, hygrometry and stream flow measurement. (3 hours)
Rainfall curves and analysis: Surface runoff mass curve, flow duration curves, frequency
analysis, Rainfall runoff relationships, hydrographs. (3 hours)
Ground water Hydraulics: Darcy’s law, pumping tests analysis, aquifers, rural water supply,
and water resources in Uganda. (3 hours)
CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY III
Building Rules (The Public Safety Act) (2 hours)
Site Visits: (2 hours)
Site visit for selection by the client
Considerations affecting choice of site
Primary and secondary investigation by the consultants and contractor
Site Layout:
Location temporary buildings, services, access, outlets and areas (1hour)
Submission and Approval of Plans (2 hours)
Setting Out Using More Precise and Latest Equipment: (3 hours)
Setting out hexagonal buildings, bridges and roads using theodilite, EDMs, Total stations etc.
Setting out circular, triangular, ellliptical and other non-square buildings
Setting out over water
Setting out of bridges, dams and tunnels.
Temporary Works Design: (3 hours)
Factors considered in design
Design of props, Primary and secondary joists
Design of formwork for different Architectural shapes and details
Sliding formwork
Advanced Construction: (3 hours)
Factors considered in the design of: roads, bridges, dams and tunnels
Construction of roads, bridges and tunnels
Offshore construction
Stairs and Escalators:
Setting out and construction of stairs
Construction of spiral stairs in concrete and in steel, prefabrication of spiral stairs
Installation of escalators
Special Constructions: Sound, Fire, Heat, Cavity Floors and walls. (3 hours)
Suspended Ceiling: (2 hours)
functional requirements
Methods of construction: jointless, strip and service ceiling.
Curtain Walling: (2 hours)
design of curtain walls
methods of construction: unitised and rainscreen principle
Underpinning: (3 hours)
Factors considered in the choice of the method to use
Methods of underpinning
Traditional continuous footing (strip concrete or masonry building)
Pynford stools (modification of 1)
Mini-pile or conventional piling
Grouting
Mechanisms of Door Openings: (2 hours)
Sliding doors
Folding doors
Collapsible doors
Louvred
Revolving doors
Sliding and folding
Swinging doors
Maintenance of Structures: (3 hours)
Definition of terms
types of maintenance
importance
Protection of Structures (2 hours)
Industrialised and System Building Construction: (5 hours)
definition of industrialisation
reasons for industrialisation
classification of industrialisation: onsite and offsite and product industrialisation
key factors of industrialisation
advantages and disadvantages of industrialisation
Limitations in Uganda's Rural and Urban Areas, Appropriate Solutions to Identified
Limitations (2 hours)
Appropriate Technology Considerations and alternative energy (3 hours)
Construction Mechanical Plant: (3 hours)
methods of excavation
factors considered in acquiring a plant
choice of excavation method
classification of mechanical plant
advantages and disadvantages of mechanical plant
(Details of Sketches Must Be Emphasised in This Course.)
DESIGN OF GEOTECHNICAL STRUCTURES
Introduction to foundation engineering: (4 hours)
Bearing capacity of soils. Term and Definitions .prandtl. terzaghi,
Spempto, Meryerhof and brinch Hansen Analysis
Settlement of foundations.Imimmediate, consolidation and secondary settlement
Classification of foundation: strip, pad, Raft, Pile and foundations
Bearing capacity and settlement computations
Geotechnical design of shallow foundation: (14 hours)
Introduction
Essential on design of shallow foundations
Design of eccentrically load spread footings: a) case of a rectangular shallow footing with
moment in one direction without tension. b) Case of a rectangular footing with moment in
one direction with tension c) case of a rectangular footing with oblique moment with tension.
e) case of pile foundation with oblique moment
Computations
Geotechnical design of piled foundations: (14 hours)
Introduction
Classification of pile driving
Determination of bearing capacity of a pile .Positive and Negative skin friction
Static formulas to determine the bearing capacity of pile
Computations
Pile groups. Efficiency of a group of piles. Settlement of pile groups
Design of pile foundation .Steps to design.
Computations
Geotechnical design and construction of earth retaining structures: (13 hours)
Types of earth retaining structures
Lateral active and passive Earth pressures
Rankine Theory for active and passive Earth pressures calculations in cohesion-less, cohesive
and csoils
Coulomb Theory for active and passive Earth pressure calculations in cohesion-less, cohesive
and csoils
Effect of surcharge on backfill
Stability walls against Overturning, sliding and Bearing Capacity
Backfill drainages
Computations
MEASUREMENT OF BUILDING WORKS
Definitions and measurement of quantities in the following elements:
Foundations (10 hours)
Reinforced concrete and tied frames (7 hours)
Walls and curtain walling
Timber and steel roof structures and covering (7 hours)
Windows and doors (7 hours)
Finishing and fitting (7 hours)
Services: electrical and mechanical installation (7 hours)
HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING
Hydrology
Hydrological cycle: hydrometeorology rainfall, draught, evaporation, infiltration, soil
moisture, hygrometry and stream flow measurement. (3
hours)
Runoff: Runoff process – Unit hydrograph – Derivation and analysis – S-hydrograph –
Synthetic unit hydrograph-Instantaneous Unit hydrograph – methods of determining IUH –
conceptual models of IUH – Formulation of models – concept of linear reservoir, Nash and
Dooge’s and Kulendaiswamy’s model. (3
hours)
Nolinearity of runoff-distribution – Overland flow steam flow – Flow duration and mass
curves and Time series analysis. (2
hours)
Floods: Importance of flood studies – definition – causes of floods – seasonal distribution of
floods – design flood – factors affecting flood flow – magnitude and frequency of floods –
empirical, probability and unit hydrograph methods. (2 hours)
Flood control Measures: Flood control reservoirs – Types location – size – levees and flood
walls – stage reduction and reduction in peak discharge flood routing through reservoirs.
(2 hours)
Ground water Hydraulics: Darcy’s law, pumping tests analysis, aquifers, rural water and oil
supply, and water and oil and gas resources in Uganda. (4
hours)
Water Resources Engineering
Introduction to Water Resources – Hydrological – Characteristics – Surface and ground water
resources – quality conservation and flood control. (2 hours)
Water Resources Planning: Purpose of water resources development, classification of water
Resources Development Projects, Functional Requirements of Multipurpose Projects, Process
of Project Formulation, Project Evaluation, Strategies for the Future, Planning Strategies,
Management Strategies. (4
hours)
Site investigations and design aspects of Water Resources: Surface water resources:
Minor tanks; Reservoirs; Diversion head works Ground water resources: Tube wells; Open
wells (2 hours)
Rainwater harvesting and artificial recharge of ground water. (4
hours)
Application of Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) in Water
Resource: A brief history of RS, Sensor systems used in RS, RS Satellites, Landsat, and IRS.
Remote Sensing applications in Civil Engineering projects GIS over view, GIS components,
Raster data models and Vector data model, Application of RS and GIS in water resources
Engineering.
Irrigation Engineering: (8 hours)
Irrigation methods
Soil - Water Plant Relationship
Crop water requirements, irrigation efficiency
Water quality requirements and assessment
Design of an irrigation system
Concrete Dams
Oil and gas Engineering
Outlet Works: (4 hours)
Spill ways
Gates and Valves,
River Engineering Improvements: (4 hours)
Diversion works
Drainage Structures
Culverts
Bridges
Dips
Hydro Power Development Types
Pumping Station Site and Design (1 hour)

SPECIFICATION WRITING
Evolution of Specification Writing.Functions of a Specification. (3 hours)
Contractual Status of a Specification in the Common Types of Forms of Contract.
(2 hours)
Need for Writing Specifications. (4 hours)
Forms of Specifications and their Relevance to Various Nature of Construction Works.
(8 hours)
Distinction between Prescriptive/Product and Performance Specifications. (4 hours)

Use of Standard Specifications, Manufacturers Specifications and Reference British

Standards and Codes of Practice. (12 hours)
Specification Clauses for Preliminaries and General Conditions, Earthworks, Concrete, Brick
and Block work, Roof Coverings, Carpentry and Joinery, Metal Work, Finishings, Glazing,
Painting, Plumbing and Drainage. (12
hours)

PRESENTATION TIME TABLE

DAYS PRESENTER PRESENTER
MON HAJAT(MOW) BIRU(DOGS)
TUE BIRU(HYDRAULICS) HAJAT(SPECIFICATION W)
WED SHEMA(HYDROLOGY) CHARLES(DOR&PC)
THUR CHARLES(DOR&PC) SHEMA(HYDROLOGY)
FRI HAJAT(CONS TECH 3) BIRU(HYDRAULICS)
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