Industrial Building Design and Residential Live Load Analysis Project

This assignment presents a comprehensive civil engineering project that requires the design of a mill-type heavy industrial building with multiple bays for metal processing and finishing shops. The design process necessitates detailed explanations of the structural system, buildability criteria, choice between open or covered structures, shop or site connections, and the steel structure's erection sequence. Additionally, the project involves a residential structural analysis. Students must determine the floor area and pressure exerted by a ballet dancer's feet during pirouettes, calculate the work the floor must perform to absorb leaps, and compute the live load based on the dancer's movements according to the Limit State Design Method. The assignment then requires students to recommend a suitable house for the dancer, analyze a specific house's live load capacity, and determine its suitability for dance practice based on AS 1170.1, providing detailed justifications and recommendations. Assumptions are provided, including dancer's weight, velocity, and leap height, to facilitate the calculations, emphasizing practical application of structural engineering principles.

Your Client has tasked you to design a Mill-Type Heavy Industrial Building with multiple bays that will
host separate metal processing and finishing shops.
Explain in detail the following aspects of the design process with respect to this type of steel structure:
a) The Structural System and Type for this Particular Application.
b) The Buildability Criteria Which You Will Use to Base the Structural Layout and Design of the
Building.
c) The Choice of an Open or Covered Structure.
d) The Choice of Utilising Shop or Site Connection of the Building's Steel Structural
Components.
e) The Sequence and Method of Erection of the Steel Structure.
[It is anticipated that you will provide your answer within approximately five pages. You may provide
your own sketches with your answers to facilitate discussion of the above points].

Rudolph is a male professional ballet dancer who is looking for a new home. He is wanting to
purchase a typical residential house which will suit his budget and his lifestyle.
Being a professional dancer is a regime not just a job, and this means that Rudolph needs to train
and rehearse on a daily basis. Hence, Rudolph intends to practice his dance routines in the lounge
room of his new home on a frequent basis.
Rudolph is your auntie’s protégé, and since you are a qualified Structural Engineer, she has asked
you to assist Rudolph in finding a suitable house. You have had a meeting with Rudolph and
obtained information that will assist you in analysing suitable houses and this information effectively
forms your specification for this ‘project’.
As a part of the decision-making process, you need determine the following:
(i) The area in mm2 which Rudolph’s feet take up on the floor.
(ii) The pressure Rudolph will place on the floor when he is practicing his pirouettes.
(iii) The work that the floor has to do to stop Rudolph’s leaps.
(iv) The Live Load Q as per the Limit State Design Method for Rudolph’s dance routines based on
the assumed velocity of his movements and leaps.
(v) What type of home would you recommend that Rudolph purchase? Why?
(vi) Rudolph has found a renovated, Victorian architecturally-styled house in a location close to his
work. It is a three-bedroom, one bathroom house constructed with floor joists at 450 mm centres
and bearers at 1.6 m centres. The large 4 m x 5 m lounge room with polished timber floor
boards looks particularly promising.
a. What would you anticipate the Live Load capacity of the house to be based on the floor
joists and bearers?
b. Is this house suitable for Rudolph to practice his dance routines? Why/ why not? Provide a
detailed response based on floor live loads considerations as per AS 1170.1 (discussed in
the Reading Material for this module) and your calculations.
c. Based solely on the dance practice criteria, do you recommend that Rudolph purchase this
house? Why/ why not? Provide a detailed response with a justification for your answer.
Assumptions
 Size of average male foot – 330 mm x 120 mm
 Ball of male foot – 165 mm x 120 mm
 Mass of average-sized male ballet dancer = 85 kg
 Maximum velocity Rudolph can attain is 5.88* m/s and he attains this velocity in 4.5 seconds
from a stopped position; generally, he can continue at this velocity of 5.88 m/s or greater for
at least 20 seconds. Consider Rudolph’s movements in this regard in terms of a vehicle.
[*This velocity assumes Rudolph is capable of running 100 m in approx. 17 secs, this is well below the Olympic
records of most contemporary male athletes (Usain Bolt of Jamaica achieved a distance of 100 m in 9.68 secs at the
Olympics.]
 Rudolph’s leaps – 1.5 m above the ground and landing on the ball of one foot.
Note:
 Ballet dancers tend to be smaller and lighter than the average for their sex.
 The information and assumptions provided in this question are simplified and would not
necessarily be utilised and calculated in this manner for a real-world application.
[Hint: Newton’s Laws of Motion would be useful to determine some of the required information.]