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Structural Steel Design Training Course

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Why Select this Training Course?

Structural steel design is vital in engineering for various structures like schools, bridges, and skyscrapers. These frameworks rely on steel frames, while more complex designs incorporate steel plates and shells. Structural analysis determines how loads and moments affect these structures. Verification ensures steel columns withstand axial and moment requirements, preventing buckling. Current steel design methods include Allowable Strength Design (ASD) and Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD), both employing strength-based approaches for ultimate safety and durability.

However, structural steel design faces the challenges of balancing strength and flexibility while meeting safety standards. Ensuring optimal beam depth to resist bending without compromising on lateral stability poses a persistent issue. Achieving this balance is crucial for constructing resilient and safe buildings, bridges, and other steel structures.

This Rcademy Structural Steel Design Training Course will equip participants with essential skills to design prevalent structures using industry standards like AISC, BS, ASD, and EC3. It covers designing all steel elements and connections, emphasising bolt and welded connections, compression and tension members, batten plates, lacing systems, beams, bases, lateral restraint, and combined axial and bending resistance. Additionally, it delves into stress, strain, yield strength, failure modes, shear, bending, and axial resistance in steel design.

What are the basics of steel structure design?

Steel structures can be designed using simple, continuous, or semi-continuous methods. Simple designs treat joints as perfect pins, ignoring moments, and use bracing or concrete cores for lateral load resistance. Continuous designs consider joints rigid, preventing rotation, and require software for detailed frame analysis. Joints must have appropriate stiffness or strength based on the design method. Semi-continuous designs provide a more accurate joint behaviour representation but are complex and labour-intensive. Simplified methods for semi-continuous designs exist for braced and unbraced frames, with braced frames using a core or bracing system and unbraced frames depending on bending moments.

What steel types are used for structural steel?

Structural steel is crucial in construction for its strength and adaptability. Common types include Carbon Steel, valued for its durability and cost-effectiveness; High-Strength Low-Alloy Steel, which offers greater stability and corrosion resistance; Forged Steel, known for its toughness and fatigue resistance; and Quenched and Tempered Alloy Steel, prized for its strength and hardness after heat treatment. Each type is specifically designed to handle loads and stresses in buildings, bridges, and other structures, ensuring safety and structural integrity. These steels are selected based on project needs, balancing cost, strength, and durability.

Who Should Attend?

  • Civil engineers concerned with designing and overseeing construction projects, ensuring their safety and structural soundness.
  • Steel fabricators tasked with working excellently with raw steel, crafting it into finished products that meet design specs and quality benchmarks.
  • Project planners who are charged with meticulously charting out construction plans, juggling timelines, budgets, and risk assessments.
  • Construction engineers in charge of managing construction tasks and ensuring everything matches the design and quality standards.
  • Design engineers who are tasked with detailing and analysing intricate designs for structures and systems, blending in engineering know-how and specs.
  • Steel quality assurance officers who are charged with keeping watch on steel products and processes, ensuring they meet top-notch quality standards.
  • Architects.
  • Structural analysts.
  • Building inspectors.

What are the Course Objectives?

The main objectives of this Rcademy Structural Steel Design Training Course are to enable the participants:

  • Develop efficiency in integrating sustainable design principles into steel structures.
  • Explore innovative approaches for enhancing seismic resilience in steel construction.
  • Acquire the expertise and capabilities necessary for crafting durable and efficient steel constructions.
  • Enhance comprehension of contemporary methodologies and tools for risk-informed inspections to optimise maintenance strategies.
  • Gain profound insight into machine-based steel structure design principles.
  • Comprehend load distribution on steel structures and adeptly manage tension and compression stresses.
  • Become well-versed in pipe rack design.
  • Utilise state-of-the-art methodologies and techniques in steel structure design.
  • Master advanced software applications for simulating and analysing steel structure behaviour.
  • Acquire knowledge of international standards and regulations governing steel structure design and construction.

How will this Course be Presented?

This Rcademy Structural Steel Design Training Course is participant-centred and designed specifically to meet participants’ expectations and enhance their expertise and knowledge. The training will be delivered using different methods and styles that ensure learning efficacy for the participants. Experts in the field with years of practice and experience will deliver the course to ensure proficiency, quality, and consistency. The modules are designed based on extensive research on the subject.

This Rcademy Structural Steel Design Training Course provides theoretical and practical approaches to learning using notes, slides on the subject, real-life case studies, and lecture notes. Participants will be engaged in presentations, quizzes, seminar workshops, and constant feedback on the lessons taught to gauge their satisfaction.

What are the Topics Covered in this Course?

Module 1: Overview of  Structural Steel Design

  • Understanding various steel sections
  • Calculation of loads for different designs like ASD and LRFG
  • Causes and consequences of steel structure failure
  • Strategies for achieving acceptable safety levels efficiently
  • Familiarisation with building specifications and codes
  • Review of fundamental civil and structural analysis concepts

Module 2: Steel Beams Design

  • Definition and design principles of beams
  • Analysis of axial and bending tension and endurance
  • Consideration of deflection in beam design
  • Utilisation of simulation software
  • Designing beam-columns
  • Procedure for code design
  • Handling tension and bending forces on beam-columns
  • Designing eccentrically loaded beams
  • Understanding nominal strength

Module 3: Steel Connections

  • Designing fillet welds
  • Management of shear tension in bolted joints
  • Overview of steel welds and types
  • Effects of tension loads on bolted joints
  • Analysis of bolted connections
  • Understanding eccentric connections
  • Designing welded connections

Module 4: Analysis of Compression Members

  • Application of Euler formula in steel design
  • Formulas for intermediate, long, and short columns
  • Understanding failure modes
  • Elastic buckling of slender members
  • Classification of cross-sections
  • Evaluation of displacements
  • Considerations for single-angle struts
  • Determining the effective length of compression members

Module 5: Design of Compression Members

  • Designing built-up columns
  • Best practices for base plates in concentrically loaded columns
  • Designing column splices
  • Reference to AISC design tables
  • Design considerations for single-angle compression members
  • Introduction to lacing and batten systems
  • Structure of compression members

Module 6: Composite Sections

  • Understanding composite constructions
  • Designing concrete-encased sections
  • Evaluation of flexural strength and moment capacity
  • Analysis of composite section deflections
  • Application of cover-plated beams
  • Examples of pan, composite, and concrete floors

Module 7: Steel Building

  • Types of roof constructions
  • Utilisation of steel in roofing
  • Interior partitions using steel
  • Design considerations for exterior walls
  • Structural steel design principles
  • Fireproofing methods for steel buildings

Module 8:  Importance of Structural Steel Design and the Challenges

  • Introduction to limit state design
  • Understanding lateral torsional buckling (LTB)
  • Impact of design resistance on overall strength
  • Stress calculations in steel design
  • Exploration of advantages and disadvantages of steel design

Module 9: Stress and Resistance

  • Management of stress concentration
  • Considerations for fatigue resistance and corrosion resistance
  • Overview of structural steel products
  • Understanding fabrication and erection processes
  • Evaluation of residual stress effects

Module 10: Design of Plate Girders

  • Exposure considerations for web panel sheer
  • Design principles for plate girders
  • Welding considerations for girder components
  • Utilisation of ISO 800:2007 for girder design
  • Understanding transverse web stiffness behaviour
  • Analysis of loading considerations and fatigue effects

Module 11: Emerging Trends in Structural Steel Design

  • AI integration in optimising design
  • Advance Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
  • Seismic-resistant design
  • Robotics and automation
  • Biofuel in fabrication
  • Lean design principle
  • Laser-cutting hi-technology
  • Augmented Reality (AR)
  • Building information modelling (BIM)
  • Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
  • 3D Printing
  • Prefabricated steel components

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