Course Name
PRINCIPLES OF STEEL DESIGN
‘A professional course common to ail civil engineering studer
designed to
Bee ion provide fundamental concepts, principles, and theories in the structural
pf ‘strength analysis and design of steel elements in a structure
Number of Units
for Lecture and i it i
Laboratory 3 units lec/ 1 unit Computation
Number of
Contact Hours 3hr lec / 3hr Computation
per Week
Prerequisites | Mechanics of Deformable Bodies, Structural Theory
Co-requisites _ | Principles of Stee! Design (Computation)
Program
Outcomers
Addrossed by | WE D1 KE
the Course
‘At the end of the course, the students must be able to:
1. Understand the stress-strain characteristics of steel in both elastic and
plastic stages of deformation;
2. Be able to determine the strength of structural steel members in axial
Course: loading, bending, shear, and torsion for various cross-sectional shapes
Outcomes in both elastic and plastic conditions
3. Be able to apply allowable strength and load-and-resistance factor
design methods of stee! design
4 Be able to determine the strength of bolted/riveted and welded
connections:
1. Introduction the course
1.1 Identification of civil engineering structures for which the use of
structural steel is applicable for use
1.2 Typical stress-strain characteristics of steel in simple tension and
the evaluation of its mechanical propertios
1.3 Availabilty of steel grades available in the country and elsewhere
2. _Femiliaization of various structural shapes
Course Outline 2.4 Rolled sections, built-up sections
2.2 Determination of the cross-sectional properties of structural shapes
2.3 Introduction to available manuals, charts, and tables already
available
3. Analysis and design for axial tension
3.1 Reference codes of practice ~AISC, NSCP C101
3.2 Factors affecting the allowable tensile stress
3.3 Gross area, net area, effective net area for boltediriveted
connections
source : CHED CMO-92-s.-2017-BS-Civil-Engineering.pdf3.4 Limiting slenderness of tension members
2.5 Allowable tensile strength, ultimate tensile strength
3.6 Allowable strength design (ASD) and load-anc-resistance factor
design (LRFD) methods
4, Analysis and design for axial compression
4.1 Euler's ciitical load, critical sess
42 End conditions and slendemess ratio
43 Factors affecting the allowable compressive stress
44 Code provisions for allowable compressive stress.
45 Evaluation of allowable axial compressive load for any structural
shape and siendemess
4.6 Use of available tables in manuals for allowable concentric loads:
47 Column built-up sections, evaluation of allowable concentric load
48 ASD and LRFD of axially-loaded compression members
5. Analysis and design of members for bending
5.1 Factors affecting the allowable bending stress
5.2 Compact, non-compact, slender sections in bending
5.3 Lateral unbraced length of flexural members
5.4 Moment-resisting capacity of beams.
5.5 Nominal bending, plastic bending strength
5.6 ASD and LRFD for bending
6, Shear strength of structural members
6.1 Alowable shear stiess, allowable shear strength
62 Nominal shear strength
6.3 ASD and LRFD of structural elements for shear
7. Combined axial and flexural loading
7.1 Investigation of column adequacy under combined loading
7.2 Conversion of moments to equivalent axial loads
7.3 Design of columns under combined loading
8 Connections
8.1 Welded connections
8.2 Types of welds
8.3 Allowable strength of welds
8.4 Allowable strength of welded connections
8.5 Bolted/riveted connections, allowable strength of boits/rivets
8.6 Allowable strength of bolts, rivets
Reference Books
1, American Institute of Stee! Construction (AISC), Manual of Stoe/
Construction, latest editon
2. Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines (ASEP), National
Structural Code for Buildings and Other Vertical Structures (NSCP
C101. 7" Ed,), 2018
3, Spiegel, Leonard and Limbrunner, George F, Applied Structural Stee!
Design, 3rd Ed., MoGraw Hill, Inc., 1997
‘Soure : CHED CMO-92-s.-2017-8S-Civil-Engincering-pdf