Catalog Description: Methods of analysis and design of steel components and structures using the AISC-LRFD approach. Focus on basis of LRFD specifications, tension members, compression members, beams, beam-columns, and centric connections.
Pre-requisite(s):
CES 4100 or CES 4100C Structural Analysis I
Designation: Elective (One out CES 4605 or CES 4702 is Required for CE)
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:
· Introduce methods for analysis and design of steel structures and components
using the ASIC-LRFD approach.
· Prepare students for joining the structural engineering community as
a structural steel designer or for more advanced graduate work on steel structures.
Topics:
· Visualization: Many of the problems encountered in this course are
three-dimensional and are intended to enhance visualization skills.
· Problem Solving: 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
and identify the simplest solution.
· Critical Thinking: emphasizes and develops the students intuitive ability
to judge the quality of answers
· Knowledge of current philosophies for design; LRFD emphasized, ASD
mentioned
· Load cases and calculations of design forces;
· Design of tension members; gross-section yielding behavior; net section
fracture behavior, shear lag behavior, block shear behavior; stiffness requirements
· Design of compression members; local and global buckling including
torsional-flexural buckling; column curve concept
· Design of simple bolted and welded connections; shear and bearing of
bolts; slip critical connections
· Design of beams; plastic design and serviceability considerations,
moment gradients and lateral torsional buckling behavior, shear strength, beam
bearing design.
· Design of beam-columns; interaction curves, moment amplification, braced
and unbraced beam-columns.
· Beam-to-column connections.
Textbook(s):
· LRFD Steel Design, by William Segui, 2nd Edition. PWS Publishers, 1999.
· Manual of Steel Construction, LRFD, 2nd Edition, AISC, 1994.
Reference(s):
N/A
Relationship of the
course to Program Outcomes:
· This course is used to apply concepts learnt in program outcomes 1
and 10.
· This course also addresses the Criterion a, c, e, h, i, j, k (from
the a-k list of ABET)