Steel Educators' Tip Sheet

September 2013

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HANDS-ON DEMONSTRATION: Paper Column
A quick, simple demonstration of local buckling of compression members. Students use paper, cardstock, tape, and their AISC manuals to explore effects of different b/t ratios.
Get instructions (works with 14th edition manual) >>

VIDEO: The Behavior of Columns
The video provides an overview of columns (e.g., sections and loading) and the response of steel columns to loading.
View this video online >>

SLIDE SHOW: Structures of the Everyday
Introduce your students to structural steel shapes, their properties, and applications. Content includes space frames, beams, open web joists, columns, braces, and lintels. These PowerPoint files were created for Schools of Architecture but are equally effective in engineering courses.
Download the PowerPoint files >>

SLIDE SETS: Teaching Aids for Structural Steel Design Courses
This series of slide sets can be used for instruction on beams, compression members, tension members, and combined forces. Pick and choose slides to incorporate into your lectures. The slides are divided in the "theory" and "manual" sections; the "manual" sections have been updated to the 14th edition steel construction manual.
Download the PowerPoint slides >>

Download the AISC Web-Enhanced Teaching (WET) files>>

Check out AISC Podcasts

Learn about some of the steel industry's leading professionals from the more than twenty "Steel Profiles" available on AISC Podcasts.

SteelDay is just around the corner -- register now for your free SteelDay event!

Over a hundred, free, educational and networking events have been posted for SteelDay, October 4.

On October 4, 2013, thousands of SteelDay participants across the country are expected to attend facility tours, site tours, seminars and webinars. AISC will host a free webinar, "The Life of the K Factor," by Charlie Carter, AISC Vice President and Chief Structural Engineer. For more information and to register for this webinar, go to www.aisc.org/webinars or http://www.aisc.org/steeldayevents/.

Meanwhile, submissions have been collected, and winning entries will be published on a STEEL-a-palooza music CD to be distributed at SteelDay events.

Click here for more information and to find out how to participate in one of the many free SteelDay 2013 events. Be sure to click on the "Attendees" tab for past attendees' and hosts' quotes, as well as information on what to expect on facility tours.

Try a little web-enhanced teaching

Make use of posted webinars and online Steel Conference proceedings in your course.

There are over fifty 1 to 1.5 hour webinars and dozens of presentations from Steel Conferences, including the 2013 NASCC, all available online for free viewing. Topics include the direct analysis method, designing members for torsion, steel fire design issues, connection design, metallurgy, and ethics and accountability, among others. Use excerpts or entire presentations to supplement your lectures and course reading assignments.

Back to basics with AISC's Night School

Registration is now open for Course Three - Basic Steel Design, which begins on September 24!

Professor Emeritus Louis F. Geschwindner, Ph.D., P.E. will teach Night School - Basic Steel Design: A Review of the Principles of Steel Design According to ANSI/AISC 360-10. The course consists of eight Tuesday evening webinars, starting on September 24, 2013. Webinars start at 7 p.m. Eastern Time and last for ninety minutes. Register for the entire eight-session package or for individual webinars, listed below.
Sept. 24
Oct.1
Oct.8
Oct.15		 Introduction to Basic Steel Design
Design of Tension Members
Design of Columns
Design of Beams		 Oct. 22
Oct. 29
Nov. 12
Nov. 19		 Design of Members for Bending Plus Compression
Stability Analysis and Design Part I
Stability Analysis and Design Part II
Design of Composite Flexural Members

Hollow Product, Solid Benefit

Use SteelWise articles to brush up on your (and your students') steel know-how.

The SteelWise feature in Modern Steel Construction provides practical knowledge on a number of topics, ranging from stability analysis, to how choice of corrosion protection affects connection design, to practical considerations for expansion joints in buildings.

The September 2013 SteelWise installment introduces the new ASTM material standard for hollow structural sections (HSS). ASTM A1085 has tighter tolerances (e.g., wall thickness) than ASTM A500, and a different material chemistry. ASTM A1085 also has just one grade with minimum specified yield strength of 50 ksi and minimum specified tensile strength of 65 ksi. Excerpts from section property and axial compression strength tables are provided along with a short design example.
SteelDay 2013 is October 4th!
Questions or comments on this Tip Sheet? E-mail strsteel@ecn.purdue.edu Judy Liu, Purdue University

September 2013 Steel Educators' Tip Sheet Tools and Tips