CE 59100 – Advanced Structural Steel Design

Credits and contact hours:

  • 3 credits
  • Lecture meets 3 times per week for 50 minutes per meeting for 15 weeks

Specific course information:

  • Catalog description: Design and behavior of plate girders; design of composite beam and column members; behavior and design of bolted and welded connections, including moment-resistant connections, seated connections, and gusset-plate connections.
  • Prerequisites: 
  • Course status: 

Specific Goals for the course:

  • Student learning outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course the student shall be able to:
    • analyze and design plate girders for various limit states affective flexural strength, shear strength, local and global stability
    • design composite beams for various limit states while accounting for partial and full composite action, flexural strength, and stiffness.
    • design composite columns for various limit states including steel yielding, concrete compression failure, column stability.
    • design simple and eccentric shear connections
    • design moment connections, and members for concentrated forces
  • 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.

Topics:

  • Plate Girders for Buildings and Bridges
    • Introduction to parameters and elements of plate girders
    • Materials and combinations
    • Limit state of local buckling
    • Limit state of lateral buckling
    • Limit state of shear buckling
    • Flexural strength
    • Shear strength
    • Design of stiffeners
    • Design Examples
    • Applications
  • Composite Members for Buildings and Bridges
    • Introduction to parameters and elements of composite members
    • Materials and shear connectors
    • Elastic behavior
    • Shear connectors and slip
    • Full vs. partial composite action
    • Inelastic behavior
    • Flexural strength
    • Design of shear connectors
    • Stiffness and deflection
    • Design Examples and applications
  • Connections in Steel Structures
    • Review of fasteners: Bolts and welds
    • Behavior and classification of connection
    • Simple shear connections: shear tab, single angle, double angle
    • Eccentric connections: Bolted with shear only, shear + tension
    • Eccentric connection: Welded with shear only, shear + tension
    • Moment connections: Welded and bolted options
    • Design for concentrated forces
    • End Plate connections
    • Design Examples and applications