Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

This course is required for an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Architectural Design and Drafting, and Building Inspection Technology.  It is also required for the One Year Certificate in Structural Inspection, Mechanical Inspection, Plans Examiner, and One- and Two-Family Dwelling Code Combination Structural, Mechanical, and Plans Examiner.
Transferability of credit depends entirely upon the institution to which the student wishes to transfer.
Students who may have a disability and wish an accommodation should make arrangements to meet with the instructor outside of class to discuss specific requests.  Any request for accommodation may require that documentation of disability be reviewed by the Office for Students with Disabilities
 

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

• Communicate with design professionals, clients, and engineers, using industry-specific terminology to determine solutions for seismic engineering.

• Apply theories of structural loading to select and design basic retaining walls and concrete foundation systems for a residential project.
• Select and design a residential structural system to resist wind and seismic forces using a code-defined prescriptive path.

• Participation in class work sessions, class discussions and critiques.
• Proper and timely completion of class projects, which demonstrate effective use of knowledge.
• Evaluation procedures will be presented at the first class meeting.  Student grades will be based on satisfactory completion of assigned projects.
   

Lecture/discussion and lab sessions will be the instructional methods used in this course and will provide the student with the background information necessary to complete the homework assignments. 
STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS:

• Forces and stresses on structural members
• Moments and reactions caused by loads on structural members
• Shearing and bending stresses through the use of shear diagrams
• Types of basic structural members
• Design methods and computational techniques to solve given bending problems
   

DETERMINATION OF MEMBER LOADING

• Code required minimum live loads
• Common construction dead loads
• Determination of member load
• Total loads for a given structural system
   

STEEL MEMBER DESIGN

• Steel design values in reference books
• Beams
• Angles and channels
• Columns
   

CONCRETE STRUCTURAL DESIGN

• Plain concrete footings
• Steel reinforced concrete footings
• Plain concrete retaining walls
   

LATERAL FORCES

• Introduction to lateral forces
• Wind loads
• Seismic loads