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Course 22. Design of Steel Structures II (Web Course)

Faculty Coordinator(s) :

1. Prof. S. R. Satish Kumar

Department of Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Chennai 600036

Email : satish@civil.iitm.ernet.in

Telephone : (91-44) Off : 2257 8310

Res : 2257 9310

Detailed Syllabus:

STEEL STRUCTURES I

I. INTRODUCTION:1) Properties of Structural Steel, Corrosion, Fire Protection.2) Indian Standard Specifications and Sections.

II. DESIGN APPROACH:

1) Design Requirements & Design Process.2) Analysis Procedures & Design Philosophy.3) Introduction to Limit State Design.4) Other Design Requirements.

III. CONNECTIONS:

1) Bearing Type Bolts.2) Friction Grip Bolts.3) Welded Connections4) Hanger Connections.5) Eccentrically Loaded Connections.6) Splice Connections.

IV. TENSION MEMBERS:

1) Introduction.2) Plates with Holes.3) Angles under Tension.4) Design of Tension Members.

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V. COMPRESSION MEMBERS1) Buckling Strength of Ideal Columns.2) Strength of Practical Compression Members.3) Column Strength Curves.4) Design of Axially Loaded Columns.5) Design of Angles Loaded through one-leg.6) Laced and Battenned Columns.

VI BEAMS1) Behavior of Steel beams2) Limit State Design of Steel Beams3) Web Buckling and Crippling4) Lateral Torsion Buckling Behavior of Unrestrained Beams

5) Design approach for Unrestrained Beams6) Unsymmetrical sections and Bi-axial bending7) Built-up Sections8) Shear Behavior of Transversely Stiffened Plate Girder Webs9) Provision of Moment and Shear Capacity for Plate Girders

10) Design of StiffenersVII BEAM-COLUMNS

1) Short Beam- Columns2) Stability Consideration for Long Beam-Columns

3) Interaction Formula4) Design approach to Beam- Columns

VIII COLUMN BASES1) Introduction to Bases and Footings2) Design of Solid Slab Base

3) Design of Gusted Base4) Other Types of Footings

STEEL STRUCTURES II

I. MOMENT CONNECTIONS1) Simple, Semi-rigid and Rigid Connections.2) Connection Configurations3) Angle Cleat Connections

4) End-plate Connections5) Semi-rigid Connections6) Moment-rotation Characteristics

II. INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS1) Structural Configurations2) Functional and Serviceability Requirements3) Industrial Floors4) Roof Systems5) Plastic Analysis and Design of Portal Frames6) Crane Gantry Girders7) Design for Wind Actions8) Design for Earthquake Actions

III. MULTI-STOREYED BUILDINGS1) Structural Configurations

2) Steel-Concrete Comosite Floor Systems3) Loading4) Analysis for Gravity Loads5) Lateral Load Resisting Systems6) Analysis for Lateral Loads7) Dual Systems8) Advanced Structural Forms

IV. BRIDGES1) Classification and Types of bridges2) Load and Load Combination for highway Bridges

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V. TANKS

VI. TOWERS

3) Load and Load Combination for Railway Bridges4) Wind and Earthquake Effects5) Design of a Typical Truss Bridge6) Bearings and Supporting Elements

1) Introduction- Types of Tanks2) Load and Load Combination

3) Design Aspects of Cylindrical Tanks4) Design Aspects of Rectangular Tanks

5) Wind and Earthquake effects6) Staging Design

1) Classification of Types of Towers2) Loads and Load Combinations3) Wind Effects on Towers4) Methods of Analysis5) Design Approaches6) Economy and Optimisation