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Structural Steel Design
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| Learning structural design? | |||
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• Basics (structural elements), • Previous experience (codes), • Demonstrate design examples, • Practice (design) | ||
| General | |||
| Material, design process, codes, loads, resistances, safety concepts, design, fabrication, erection, construction, the modern structural engineer In a hurry? Build you own, click here. Discovered by (Roy) Ka Ho Ng. |
Design Flowchart.pdf Safety Concept.pdf | |
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Some Steel History.pdf Registered owners of a Handbook of Steel Construction 9th Edition: Revisions can be downloaded from the CISC Website (click here) | Steel Materials and Properties.pdf | |
| Formatted Spreadsheets | |||
 | Introduction of spreadsheets for engineering design purposes, analogy of engineering pad and formatted spreadsheets, use of macros, integrated spreadsheet shape table in both AISC and CISC format
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| Ix_formatted.xls roof_systems.xls seismic_loads.xls cantilever_beams.xls |
| Connections | |||
| Rivets, bolts, welds, load transfer mechanisms, pretensioned bolts, fastener resistances, design of simple connections, eccentrically loaded connections, connection in shear, tension, and moment, bearing plates, base plates, use of formatted spreadsheets with intergrated shape tables, cost evalutation of connections
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| Tension Members | |||
 | The tension member is the most efficient structural member as it can be stressed up to and beyond the yield limit in most cases without being susceptible to stability problems or other limiting states. It may consist of a single structural shape or be built up from several shapes. The use of a single member is usually preferred because of economical reasons.
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| Take Home Midterm | |||
| Compression Members | |||
 | Elastic analysis based on first principles is presented. Inelastic behaviour is explained. Performance of short, medium, and slender columns is covered. The basis for the design approach as adopted by the Canadian standard is explained. The effective length concept is introduced. Practical approaches for the selection and checking of columns are presented together with a number of worked examples.
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| Bending Members | |||
 | Bending members carry loads leading to bending moments in the component. There load carrying capacity depends on strength and stability of the cross section, the shape elements, the support conditions, and the geometry. | ||
| Combined Bending and Compression Members | |||
 | Bending compression together can occur in columns, top chord of trusses, and principal members in vierendeel trusses and rigid frames. An eccentricity of the applied load, or initial curvature of the column axis always generate bending moments. UDL on top chord of a truss generate moments and compression loads in members. Rigid frames and Vierendeel trusses generate bending moments and compression loads in members. Distinction is made between braced and unbraced frames. These members are commonly called beam-columns. |
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| marking scheme | • 20% Assignments • 80 % Exams – Take‐home midterm – Final exam • In order to pass the course, you must: – Achieve an overall course grade of at least 50% – Achieve a grade of at least 50% on the final exam |
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CIVL331 Lectures in Dempster 310 on Mon Wed Fri 10:00 to 11:00 |
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CIVL331 Tutorials in CEME 1202 on Tue 3:00 to 5:00 | |||
CIVL331 Tutorials in CHBE 102 on Fri 2:30 to 4:30 | |||
| Web Links |
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| Canadian Institute of Steel Construction | www.cisc-icca.ca | ||
| Canadian Sheet Steel Building Institute | www.cssbi.ca | ||
| Canadian Wood Council | www.cwc.ca | ||
Work in Class | |||
| Deep Thoughts by Ralph | 1. In open book exams write - don't read. Bring only the books and notes that you have studied from. 2. In an examination do the easiest problem first, don't be psyched out with a problem that doesn't seem to work. Go on to another problem that will give you confidence. 3. A poor mark is not the worst thing that can happen to you, there are worst things ahead: war, pestilence, starvation, more expensive gasoline, severe weather events. The traumas in your personal life will become more important than a poor mark in the past. | 4. Employers are interested in you as a person who can perform whatever task is ahead of you. A low mark in finger painting or even structural steel design won't do you any harm. | |
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