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

)
Salman & Johnson.
2) Manual of Steel Construction (LRFD) AISC (3rdEd.)
Course Objectives:
Expose students to the concepts and fundamentals
of steel design and provide design skill to undertake
design problems in Steel Construction.
i

Course Outline
Week

Topic

Contents

Introduction

Tension
Members

Strength, Net Area and Effective Net Area, Capacity,

Slenderness Ratio.

Tension
members

Design, Single Angle, Double Angles, Built-up Member,

Tie Plates.

Steel as a material; Important Properties, Design

Methods, Introduction to LFRD, Introduction to Manual.

Chapters
1&2

Bolted
Connections

High Strength Bolts, Pretension, Shear Connection, Single

& Double Shear, Bearing and Slip-critical Type
Connection, Design for Shear, Combined Shear and
Torsion.

Bolted
Connections

Combined Stresses with Shear and Tension and Shear

and Moment (only slip-critical type).

Welded
Connection

Fillet Weld, SMAW and ASW Process, Throat, Stresses

Grove Weld, Weld Symbols, Simple Connection, Balanced
Weld.

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Midterm Exam
Week

Topic

Welded
Connection

Contents

Chapters

Design of Weld foe Combined Shear and Torsion,

Combined Shear and Moment.

Compression
Members

Introduction to Buckling and Slenderness Ratio, Critical

Stress, Effective Length, Capacity of Sections.

Compression
Members

Design with/without Tables, Different Effective Lengths

(kL)x, (kL)y; Double Angles, Local Buckling and Widththickness Ratio.

10

Compression
Members

K-values in Frames, Use of column Charts, Built-up

Sections, Lacing & Tie Plates.

11

Flexural
Members

Introduction, Design Consideration, Compact and Noncompact Criteria, Shear, Design with Full Lateral Support.

7&9

Final Exam
12

Flexural
Members

Lateral Supports, Design of Laterally Unsupported Beams,

Design with Graphs.

7&9

13

Flexural
Members

Continue, Deflection, Web Yielding, Cover Plated Beams.

7&9

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Week

Topic

14

Combined
Bending and
Axial Load

15

Contents

Chapters

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

Lateral Load.

12

Column Base Plate for Axial Loads; Introduction to

Miscellaneous 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

First Major Exam
Second Major Exam
Final Exam
Project
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