Changes in CE 591

                                                                                 Engineering Faculty Document No. 20-05

                                                                                                                   February 23, 2006

 

 

 

TO:                 The Faculty of the College of Engineering

FROM:           The Faculty of the School of Civil Engineering

RE:                 Changes in CE 591 Course Description

 

 

From:              CE 591 – Advanced Structural Steel Design

 

Sem. 1, Class 3, Cr. 3.

 

Prerequisite: CE 470.   Authorized equivalent courses or consent of instructor may be used in satisfying course prerequisites.

 

Economical use of high strength steels; behavior and design of bolted and welded moment resistant connections; design of plate girders and composite steel-concrete beams; brittle fracture and fatigue. Professor Bowman.

 

To:                  CE 591 – Advanced Structural Steel Design

 

Sem. 1, Class 3, Cr. 3.

 

Prerequisite: CE 470.   Authorized equivalent courses or consent of instructor may be used in satisfying course prerequisites.

 

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.

 

Reason:          To provide an updated course description.