CIVE1144: Analysis of Complex Structures 2017

Assignment 2: Analysis of Factory Building

Note: The percentage of this assignment is 15%

The drawing presents the proposed factory building which is supported by frames. The span of the portal
frames is 24 m (measured to the centreline of the columns). The frames are spaced 6 m typical apart to
provide a nominal length of 60 m. The height to eaves reads 6 m with the rise to ridge of 4 m.

The total dead load from cladding, insulation and purlins is represented by a uniformed distributed load
(UDL) of 0.3 kPa. The roof live load (for maintenance) is 0.25 kPa. Assume that the wind acting on walls
and roofs creates an identical uniform normal pressure of 1 kPa on the windward side and a suction pressure
of 0.5 kPa on the leeward side. Consider the following load combinations:

Load Case 1: 1.2G + 1.5Q

Load Case 2: 0.9G + Wu
(where G – Dead load; Q – Live load; Wu – Wind load)

A typical steel section of 460 UB82.1 is adopted for all portal frame members (its property reads Elastic
Modulus of E = 200×103 MPa, cross-sectional area of 10500 mm2 and second order moment of area about x-
axis of Ix = 372×106 mm4). Assume that the frames are fully fixed at its foundations.

Answer the following questions:

(a) Analysis of the portal Frame using the Slope-Deflection method. Determine reaction forces,
bending moment and shear force diagrams. Demonstrate their magnitudes and the actual directions
by means of Free Body Diagram.

(b) Analysis of the portal Frame using the computer-aided software (Space Gass). Determine the
deformations, reaction forces, bending moment and shear force diagrams.