DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING - IIT MADRAS – 600036

CE 3050 Basic Structural Steel Design (Jan – May 2019)

Assignment No 1 – Design of Tension members

1. Determine the strength of the following plates in tension (20 φ bolts)

50
50
50 6 x 50
50
50 50 65 75 50 50

Plate 250x10 Plate 300x12

2. The bottom chord tie member of a truss has to withstand a factored tension equal to
480 kN. Design a double angle section for the same. The angles are connected to 10mm
thick gussets at the ends. Design the connection detail also. Draw a detailed sketch.

3. The tension to be transferred to plate member is 1500 kN. Design the simple plate
member using allowable stress method and then design the tension splice for that plate
using (a) lap splice (b) butt splice using bolted and field welded connections. Draw a
detailed sketch

4. Find the tensile load carrying capacity of a channel ISMC-175 shown below. The two
flanges are connected to the gussets by 16 mm diameter bolts by a connection length of
200 mm. Find out number of bolts and sketch the connections.

Cross-section properties of the channel and bolts

40 Gross area A =2438 mm2
Depth of section D = 175 mm
Breadth of flange b = 75 mm
Thickness of flange tf = 10.2 mm
5.7 175
Thickness of web tw = 5.7 mm
Diameter of the bolt d = 16 mm
Yield stress of steel (fy) = 250 MPa
10.2 Ultimate stress of steel (fu) = 410 MPa
75 Shear Strength of the bolts= 74.3 kN
Bearing strength of the bolts= 131.2 kN