Civil Engineering

303. Elementary Structural Design. Design in metals. Design of tension members, beams, columns, and connections. Plastic design of beams. Design project. Use of AISC LRFD. Two lectures, one two-hour problem period. Spring  (Cr.3) 

Prerequisite: CIVL 302, direct stress, reactions, shear and moment, beam stresses, column action. 

Course Goals

1. Develop ability to design steel beams, columns, tension members and connections.

Course Outcomes

The student will be able to:

• Analyze and design tension members with axial loads.

• Analyze and design compression members with axial loads.

• Analyze and design bolted connections with axial and eccentric loads.

• Completely design a bolted Fink roof truss.

• Analyze and design beams.

• Analyze and design welded connections with axial and eccentric loads.

• Analyze and design eccentrically loaded columns.

Course Syllabus

Textbooks: A.I. S.C., Manual of Steel Construction, LRFD, 2nd Edition, American Institute of Steel Construction; Brown, William A., Steel Design LRFD, 6th Edition.

References: McCormac, Structural Steel Design, LRFD Method, Harper Collins, 1995; Smith, Structural Steel Design, LRFD Approach, Wiley, 1991.

Topics:

1. Introduction, materials, codes and loads  2 lectures

2. Tension members  8 lectures

3. Compression members  5 lectures

4. Discussion of course project  1 lecture

5. Bolted connections  10 lectures

6. Beams  11 lectures

7. Welded connections  8 lectures

8. Eccentrically loaded columns  3 lectures

9. Testing during semester  8 periods

10. Final Exam  2 hours

Computer Usage:

None

Projects and Reports:

Design of Fink Roof Truss

ABET category content as estimated by faculty member who prepared this course description:

Engineering Design: 3 credits (100%)

Prepared by:  Dr. William A. Brown, P.E.                 Date: May 23, 2001