Group Last Name Initial First Name Last Name Student #

Carleton University
1a
Department of Civil and Environmental
1b
Engineering
1c
2a
CIVE 3204 Introduction to 2b
Structural Design (Fall 2012) Total

Assignment 3
Due: Tuesday Oct 23, 2012 at 16:00; Submission to the assignment slot (located at the 3rd
floor in Mackenzie Building between blocks 3 & 4)

Note: Please fill out the above blanks and use this page as the cover page of your assignment.

Question 1
A simple floor system for an office building is shown in the figures. All connections are
simply supported: Beam-Girder, Beam-Column and Girder-Column. A preliminary design is
performed and member sizes are selected. The steel beam selected is a W250 x28 and the
steel girder selected is a W690 x125.

B1
3 @ 3m

G2

G1

B2
A

5.5m
Plan view

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 Section A-A

The weight of the steel beam and girder per unit length can be found in the property tables in
Handbook of Steel Construction (see table below).
Properties:
Torsional Wrapping
Dead Axis X-X Axis Y-Y
Area Constant Constant
load
Designation Ix Sx rx Zx Iy Sy ry Zy J Cw
106 103 103 106 103 103 103 109
kN/m mm2 mm mm
mm4 mm3 mm3 mm4 mm3 mm3 mm4 mm6
W690
x192 1.88 24400 1980 5640 285 6460 76.4 602 56.0 941 4620 8680
x170 1.67 21600 1700 4910 280 5620 66.2 517 55.3 809 3050 7410
x152 1.49 19400 1510 4380 279 5000 57.8 455 54.6 710 2200 6420
x140 1.37 17800 1360 3980 276 4550 51.7 407 53.9 636 1670 5720
x125 1.23 16000 1190 3500 272 4010 44.1 349 52.5 546 1180 4830
W250
x28 0.279 3630 40.0 307 105 353 1.78 34.8 22.1 54.7 96.7 27.7
x25 0.249 3230 34.2 266 103 307 1.49 29.2 21.5 46.2 65.2 23.0
x22 0.220 2850 28.9 227 101 263 1.23 24.0 20.7 38.1 43.4 18.7
x18 0.175 2270 22.4 179 99.3 207 0.913 18.1 20.0 28.6 22.4 13.8

The live load of the office areas from the National Building Code of Canada is 2.4 kPa; Ignore the
reduction allowed for the live load. The concrete floor slab is 120 mm thick (take ρconc.=2400 kg/m3).
The self weight of the finishing screed and vinyl tiles is 0.5 kPa. The ceiling below is a normal
suspended ceiling of acoustic tiles weighing 0.2 kPa.
For beams and girders, let φ= 0.9, fy=350 MPa, and E=200 GPa.

a) Determine the maximum factored shear load, the maximum factored applied moment, and the
required section modulus for beam B1.

b) Determine the maximum factored shear load, the maximum factored applied moment, and the
required section modulus for girder G2.

c) Determine the moment of inertia required to satisfy the serviceability limit state of unfactored live
load deflections limited to 1/360 of the span. Check the serviceability only for beam B1.
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Question 2
In question1, assume that the construction details of the floor system have been changed as shown
below in the elevation view. The concrete slab is connected to both steel beam and girder.

Section A-A

a) Determine the specified (unfactored) load distribution pattern for beam B1.
b) Determine the specified (unfactored) load distribution pattern for girder G2.

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