CE 47000 – Structural Design in Metals

Credits and contact hours:

  • 3 credits
  • Lecture that meets 3 times per week for 50 minutes per meeting for 15 weeks
  • Lab review meets once per week for 100 minutes

Specific course information:

  • Catalog description: The elements of structural steel design, including tension members and their connections; structural connections, including welding, and high-strength bolts; compression members; rolled and built-up flexural members; and combined axial and flexural loading effects.
  • Prerequisites: CE 371 (Structural Analysis I) or equivalent
  • Course status: Technical Elective

Specific Goals for the course:

  • Student learning outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course the student shall be able to:
    • Be familiar with the design philosophy associated with Load and Resistance Factor Design, LRFD;
    • Understand the difference between various limit states affecting steel members;
    • Design simple tension members;
    • Design simple welded and bolted connections;
    • Design compression members;
    • Have a basic understanding associated with the design and analysis of frame structures;
    • Understand global and local buckling in compression members;
    • Design non-composite beams and understand lateral and torsional buckling failure modes;
  •  Relationship of course to program outcomes
    • Outcome 1: An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
    • Outcome 2: An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
    • Outcome 7: An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.

Topics:

  • REVIEW OF BASIC STEEL MAKING AND DESIGN
    • Steel production, alloys, material properties, Design Philosophies
  • TENSION MEMBER DESIGN
    • Fracture, yielding, effective net section, block shear
  • DESIGN OF BOLTED CONNECTIONS
    • Bearing connections, slip critical connections, force transfer through bolted joints
  • DESIGN OF WELDED CONNECTIONS
    • Welding, weld types, weld defects, weld symbols fillet weld design, CJP and PJP welds
  • COLUMN DESIGN
    • Global and local buckling, real vs idealized column behavior, short, medium, and long columns, elastic and inelastic buckling
  • DESIGN OF FLEXURAL MEMBERS
    • Yield moment, plastic moment, lateral torsional buckling, compact and non-compact section.
  • DESIGN OF BEAM COLUMNS
    • Beam column interaction in frames, frame stability, introduction to the direct-analysis method