1. STEEL DESIGN (I) CE 408 ( 2 – 3 – 3 ) Semester 062
Text: 1) Steel Structures, Design & Behavior (4thEd.)
Salman & Johnson.
2) Manual of Steel Construction (LRFD) AISC (3rdEd.)
Course Objectives:
Expose students to the concepts and fundamentals
of steel design and provide design skill to undertake
design problems in Steel Construction. i

2. Course Outline Week Topic Contents Chapters ii 1 Introduction
Steel as a material; Important Properties, Design Methods, Introduction to LFRD, Introduction to Manual.
1 & 2 2
Tension Members
Strength, Net Area and Effective Net Area, Capacity, Slenderness Ratio. 3
Tension members
Design, Single Angle, Double Angles, Built-up Member, Tie Plates. 4
Bolted Connections
High Strength Bolts, Pretension, Shear Connection, Single & Double Shear, Bearing and Slip-critical Type Connection, Design for Shear, Combined Shear and Torsion. 5
Combined Stresses with Shear and Tension and Shear and Moment (only slip-critical type). 6
Welded Connection
Fillet Weld, SMAW and ASW Process, Throat, Stresses Grove Weld, Weld Symbols, Simple Connection, Balanced Weld. ii

3. First Major Exam Second Major Exam
Week
Topic
Contents
Chapters 7
Welded Connection
Design of Weld foe Combined Shear and Torsion, Combined Shear and Moment. 5 8
Compression Members
Introduction to Buckling and Slenderness Ratio, Critical Stress, Effective Length, Capacity of Sections. 6 9
Design with/without Tables, Different Effective Lengths (kL)x, (kL)y; Double Angles, Local Buckling and Width-thickness Ratio. 10
K-values in Frames, Use of column Charts, Built-up Sections, Lacing & Tie Plates. 11
Flexural Members
Introduction, Design Consideration, Compact and Non-compact Criteria, Shear, Design with Full Lateral Support.
7 & 9
Second Major Exam 12
Lateral Supports, Design of Laterally Unsupported Beams,
Design with Graphs. 13
Continue, Deflection, Web Yielding, Cover Plated Beams.
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4. Combined Bending and Axial Load
Week
Topic
Contents
Chapters 14
Combined Bending and Axial Load
Introduction, Interaction Eqs., Cm Factor, End Moments, Lateral Load. 12 15
Miscellaneous
Column Base Plate for Axial Loads; Introduction to Common Building Connections, Concept of Simple and Moment Connections.
A set of homework problem shall be assigned weekly, solved homework shall be returned the following week.
2) A project involving design and detailing shall be assigned to group of students and collected at end of semester.
Grading
H.W. & ATTENDENCE 15%
First Major Exam 20%
Second Major Exam 25%
Final Exam 30%
Project 10%
100% iv