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Course Catalog 1999/2000


Civil and Mining Engineering

ABS015 Steel Structures 6.0 ECTS credits

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.

LABORATIONS
The students shall design and produce a welded connection (fillet welds). The connection is loaded to failure and the result is compared with the theorethical resistance.

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: U, 3, 4, 5

ITEMS/CREDITS

Written exam 3.00ECTS
Laboratory work 0.75ECTS
Project work 2.25ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
Course folder ABS015 Steel structures.
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.


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Valid for the academic year 1999/2000.

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