CVG 3147 Structural Steel Design I

3 units
Civil Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Design of statically determinate steel structures. Limit States Design. Properties of structural steel. Loads from building codes. Tributary area. Live-load-reduction factors. Tension members: Effective area, shear lags. Compression members: strength and stability. Beams: Plastic flexure, local and lateral torsional buckling, shear strength, deflection control, bearing resistance. Structural bolts in shear, tension, and in combination; prying action.

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Prerequisites: CVG 2141 , CVG 3140 . MAT 2377 is corequisite to CVG 3147 .

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