Structural Design, Special Structures

CIEQ5253 replaces CIE5251-09 Structural Design / Spatial Structures, the latter course being discontinued with the introduction of the new MSc Curriculum Civil Engineering in September 2022. CIEQ5253 is only intended for students from the old MSc, track Building Engineering.

CIEQ5253 contains a subset of the learning objectives of the larger module CIEM5250 Building Engineering (15 ECTS), all taken from Learning Unit 3 "Design of Spatial Structures" (5 EC). CIEQ5253 and CIEM5250 run in parallel. Please inform Dr. Andrew Borgart who teaches CIEM5250 that you are taking this subject under the code CIEQ5253.

Learning unit 3 of CIEM5250 and CIEQ5253 are an advanced course in the field of special and spatial building structures, their design process, structural mechanics, structural behaviour and performance, computational modelling, combined with practical use of design- and analysis tools for structural engineering. Topics include

• structures in nature

• biomimetics

• plates, shells and vaults

• membrane and pneumatic structures

• cable-nets

• tensegrity structures

• (space) frames

• grid(shell) structures and domes

• adaptive and deployable structures.