Catalog Description: Behavior and design of steel buildings. Emphasis on AISC-LRFD building code, connections, tension and compression members, beams, beam-columns, frames, composite members, seismic design of moment resisting frames.
Pre-requisite(s):
CES 4101
CES 4605
Designation: Elective
Contribution of course to meeting the Professional Component:
| Math & Science Topic | 0.0 credit hours |
| Engineering Topics | 3.0 credit hours |
| General Education Topics | 0.0 credit hours |
| Class Schedule: | Laboratory Schedule: | ||
| Number of sessions per week | 2 | Number of sessions per week | N/A |
| Duration of each session | 75 mins | Duration of each session | N/A |
Course Objectives:
· Prepare students for advanced graduate research on steel structures
or joining the structural engineering community as a knowledgeable and competent
structural designer.
Topics:
· Visualization Skills: Many of the problems encountered in this course
are three-dimensional and are intended to enhance visualization skills
· Problem Solving Skills: Most of the problems in this class have more
than one way of getting to the right answer. Students must be able to think
ahead to identify the simplest solution.
· Design Skills: This is a design class, which emphasizes and component
design as well as system design
· Critical Thinking Skills: This class emphasizes and develops the students'
intuitive ability to judge the quality of their designs.
· Knowledge of current philosophies for design: LRFD emphasized, ASD
mentioned.
· Probabilistic basis for LRFD.
· Load cases and calculation of design forces.
· Behavior and design of tension members ;Gross-section yielding behavior;
Net selection fracture behavior; Shear lag behavior; Block shear behavior; Stiffness
requirements.
· Behavior and design of compression members; Elastic and inelastic column
buckling; Global buckling including torsional-flexural buckling; Effective length
concept; Column curve concept; Local buckling and post buckling strength; Basis
for and limitations of AISC design provisions.
· Behavior and design of beams; Plastic analysis and design; Moment gradients
and lateral torsional buckling behavior; Lateral bracing requirements and systems;
Shear strength; Beam bearing design
· Design of beam-columns: Fiber section analysis method; Interaction
curves; Moment amplification, Braced and unbraced beam-columns.
· Design of simple and eccentric bolted connections: Shear and bearing
behavior of bolts; Slip critical connections; Shear-tension behavior of bolts;
Prying action in bolts.
· Design of simple and eccentric welded connections; strength and behavior
of welds
· Beam-to-column connections; shear connections; fully restrained welded-bolted
connections
· Lateral load resisting systems; moment-resisting systems, braced frame
systems; shear wall systems and dual systems; braced tube systems; tube in tube
systems; cellular systems; mega-systems
· Seismic behavior and design of lateral load resisting systems; focus
on moment resisting frame systems.
· Composite beams; beam plastic strength; shear connector requirements
Textbook(s):
· Steel Structures: Design and Behavior, by Charles G. Salmon and John
E. Johnson, 4th Edition. Harper Collins Publishers, 1996.
· Manual of Steel Construction, Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD),
3rd Edition, AISC, 2001.
Reference(s):
· N/A
Relationship of the
course to Program Outcomes:
· This course is used to assess civil and environmental engineering program
outcomes number 1, 4, 6, 7, 10.
· It is also used to apply concepts learnt in program outcomes number
1, 4, 6, 7, 10.
· This course also addresses the Criterion a, c, e, f, g, h, i, j, k
(from the a-k list of ABET)