INS 411E - Steel Structures I

Course Objectives

• to provide the design fundamentals of steel structures and the principles for proportioning of structural steel members and connections
• to develop skills for 3D-imagining in design and proportioning processes
• to develop the ability to implement the design fundamentals and proportioning principles on engineering problems through the examples and homework assignment

Course Description

History of steel. Introduction to steel structures. Properties of structural steel. Design principles for steel structures. Safety, loads and load combinations. Connections and fasteners. Riveted and bolted connections subject to concentric and eccentric shear. Welded connections. Tension members. Splice connections in tension members. Compression members. Single compression members. Built-up compression members. Design of tie plates and lacing members. Design of flexural members with rolled sections and their splice connections. Built-up flexural members. Members subject to combined axial force and bending moments. Roof trusses.