Dept. of Civil and Mining Engineering

ABS015 Steel Structures 6.0 ECTS credits

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General information about studying at Luleå University
TIMEPERIOD: QIV

LANGUAGE: English/Swedish

EXAMINER
Ove Lagerqvist Univ lekt

PREREQUISITES
ABB001, ABB006, ABB007, ABS006 and ABS008.

COURSE AIM
The scope of the course is to give knowledge concerning design of advanced steel structures with emphasis on steel structures frequently used in industrial buildings.

CONTENTS
Design of welded girders and columns: Effective cross sections, local buckling, column buckling, laterial-torsional buckling (40%). Fatigue: Stress range, Palmgren-Miners rule, fatigue strength of details, welded connections, bolted connections (20%). Design of shell structures: Different types of shell structures, stability problems (20%). Optimization of steel structures (10%). Design of advanced steel structures (10%). ASSIGNMENTS The students shall design and optimize an advanced steel structure. The scope of the optimization is that the structure should fulfill the performance requirements at lowest possible cost. For approval, the assignment should be presented with calculations as well as drawings. The computer program STAAD III is used as an aid for the calculations and SteelCad for the drawings.

TEACHING
The course is given in the form of lectures and assignments.

EXAMINATION
Grades of acceptance for the course: 3, 4, 5 Acceptance of the course requires accepted written exam as well as accepted assignment.
COURSE GRADE SCALE:

ITEMS AND CREDITS 
Laboratory work                                             	0.7 ECTS
Written exam                                                	3.7 ECTS
Project work                                                	1.5 ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
Boverkets handbok för Stålkonstruktioner, BSK 94, Stockholm 1993. Höglund T., K18, Dimensionering av stålkonstruktioner, Utdrag ur Handboken Bygg, kapitel K18 och K19, mars 1994, CE Fritzes AB/Stålbyggnadsinstitutet, Stockholm. Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures, part 1.1 General rules and rules for buildings. Treiberg T., Traversbana, 1994, Stålbyggnadsinstitutet, Stockholm Text book, not decided yet

REMARKS
Last modified 97-03-05
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