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Text:Text: 1) Steel Structures, Design & Behavior (4thEd.)

Salman & Johnson.

2) Manual of Steel Construction (LRFD) AISC (3rdEd.)

Course Objectives:Course Objectives:

Expose students to the concepts and fundamentals

of steel design and provide design skill to undertake

design problems in Steel Construction.

( 2 – 3 – 3 ) Semester 062

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Course OutlineCourse Outline

Week Topic Contents Chapters

1 IntroductionSteel as a material; Important Properties, Design Methods, Introduction to LFRD, Introduction to Manual.

1 & 2

2Tension

MembersStrength, Net Area and Effective Net Area, Capacity, Slenderness Ratio.

3

3Tension

membersDesign, Single Angle, Double Angles, Built-up Member, Tie Plates.

3

4Bolted

Connections

High Strength Bolts, Pretension, Shear Connection, Single & Double Shear, Bearing and Slip-critical Type Connection, Design for Shear, Combined Shear and Torsion.

4

5Bolted

ConnectionsCombined Stresses with Shear and Tension and Shear and Moment (only slip-critical type).

4

6Welded

Connection

Fillet Weld, SMAW and ASW Process, Throat, Stresses Grove Weld, Weld Symbols, Simple Connection, Balanced Weld.

5

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First Major ExamFirst Major ExamWeek Topic Contents Chapters

7Welded

ConnectionDesign of Weld foe Combined Shear and Torsion, Combined Shear and Moment.

5

8Compression

MembersIntroduction to Buckling and Slenderness Ratio, Critical Stress, Effective Length, Capacity of Sections.

6

9Compression

Members

Design with/without Tables, Different Effective Lengths (kL)x, (kL)y; Double Angles, Local Buckling and Width-thickness Ratio.

6

10Compression

MembersK-values in Frames, Use of column Charts, Built-up Sections, Lacing & Tie Plates.

6

11Flexural

MembersIntroduction, Design Consideration, Compact and Non-compact Criteria, Shear, Design with Full Lateral Support.

7 & 9

Second Major ExamSecond Major Exam

12Flexural

MembersLateral Supports, Design of Laterally Unsupported Beams,

Design with Graphs.7 & 9

13Flexural

MembersContinue, Deflection, Web Yielding, Cover Plated Beams. 7 & 9

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Week Topic Contents Chapters

14Combined

Bending and Axial Load

Introduction, Interaction Eqs., Cm Factor, End Moments, Lateral Load.

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15 MiscellaneousColumn Base Plate for Axial Loads; Introduction to Common Building Connections, Concept of Simple and Moment Connections.

1) A set of homework problem shall be assigned weekly, solved homework shall be returned the following week.

2) A project involving design and detailing shall be assigned to group of students and collected at end of semester.

Grading H.W. & ATTENDENCE 15%

First Major Exam 20%

Second Major Exam 25%

Final Exam 30%

Project 10%

100%