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446 Class Lectures – Steel Design – 2018a

Posted on August 2, 2021 by Abigail Stason

Note that getting a text book will be essential to understanding these lectures.  See here.

You can determine what material and pages were covered in the text by checking the dates on the syllabus for this course.

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Class/Date Streaming Lecture Videos
and Downloads
PDF Class Lecture Notes Materials/Pages we hope to cover.  Page numbers from Segui 6th edition.
Week 1
Class 1
1/17
MP4
Video died
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Introduction, Materials, Loads.
LRFD Design Philosophy.
Material covered in text: pages 1-13.
Class 2
1/19
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Properties of steel. Introduction to use of AISC Manual of Steel Construction. Standard steel shapes. Design philosophy. Broad index of materials to be covered. Factored loads and factored resistance to loads.
Material covered in text: pages 14-29.
Class 3
1/22
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Properties of factored loads and factored resistances. Equations for predicting likely loads on structural members and available resistances to loads. Example of structure loaded by wind. How tension members fail – by excessive deformation along the length of the member (Gross Section Yield) or by breaking at the ends through the bolt holes (Net Section Fracture).
Material covered in text: pages 23-43.
Class 4
1/24
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
How to calculate Ag, An. How to calculate GSY, NSF.  Effective area.  Why, and how to calculate it.  Unconnected outstanding elements of tension members.
Material covered in text: pages 44-50.
Class 5
1/26
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Load drawn out of tension members as it crosses lines of connecting bolts.  U = 1 – xbar/L for every steel shape known, bolted and welded.
Example problems.
Material covered in text: pages 51-57.
Class 6
1/29
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Staggered bolts in connections.  Workable gages in angles.
Material covered in text: pages 58-65.
Class 7
1/31
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Block shear fracture. Ubs. Design of tension members.
Material covered in text: pages 66-75.
Class 8
2/2
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Photos of block shear.  Yielded bolts.
Compression members.  Effective length factors.  AISC requirements – Global (overall) buckling.  More global buckling examples.  Local buckling of flanges, webs.
Material covered in text: pages 107-117.
Class 9
2/5
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Column global buckling, local buckling.  Compute design compressive strength of columns using AISC equations.  Global stability.
Material covered in text: pages 117-128.
Class 10
2/7
OK through here
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Column buckling about weak or strong axis.  Design of columns which buckle about the weak axis.
Material covered in text: pages 128-129.
Class 11
2/9
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Column buckling about weak or strong axis.  Design of columns which buckle about either axis.  Using tables for compression members, tables 4-22 for critical buckling stress. Using tables 4-1 for critical buckling load in the design of a limited selection of columns. Design of columns not in the 4-1 tables by trial and error. Effective column length, KL/r for each possible axis of buckling.  Use of column tables for weak-axis buckling.  Tricking column tables into giving answers for strong-axis buckling,
Material covered in text: pages 130-146.
Class 12
2/12
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Columns in multi-story frames as opposed to isolated single-story columns.  Use of G-nomographs to determine effective K for columns. Stiffness Reduction Factors.
Material covered in text: pages 146-151.
Class 13
2/14
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Examples of use of Table for strong-axis buckling.
Beams. Elastic stresses in beams.  Plastic stresses in beams. Plastic moments in beams. Elastic section modulus S, vs. Z, the Plastic Section Modulus.  Comparison of bending strength between a beam subject to an elastic yield moment vs. a plastic moment. Application of Tau b reduction factor.  Beams.
Material covered in text: pages 185-193.
Class 14
2/16
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Plastic moment calculations.  Global and local stability.  Classification of shapes.
Material covered in text: pages 193-195.
Class 15
2/19
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Bending strength of compact shapes.
Material covered in text: pages 196-203.
Class 16
2/21
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Example problems involving compact beams.  Lateral Torsional Buckling.
Material covered in text: pages 203-212.
Class 17
2/23
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
More on Lateral Torsional Buckling.  Shear Strength in the web of the beam.  Increase in lateral torsional buckling strength with Cb.
Introduction to shear strength in beams.

Material covered in text: pages 213-217.
Class 18
2/26
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Shear capacity of beams.  Block shear capacity on coped beam ends.  Deflection limitations.
Material covered in text: pages 218-226
Class 19
2/28
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Design of beams to resist plastic moment and lateral torsional buckling.
Material covered in text: pages 227-232
Class 20
3/2
Quiz A
No class
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Quiz A
No class
Class Notes 502
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Design of beams to resist plastic moment and lateral torsional buckling.
Material covered in text: pages 233-238
Class 21
3/5
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Design of beams where two lengths are involved.  Beams where deflections control the design.  Holes drilled in the flanges of beams.
Material covered in text: pages 238-242
Class 22
3/7
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Solution for required thickness of a plate subjected to bending. Beam bearing plates.
Material covered in text: pages 250-254
Class 23
3/9
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Column base plates.  Biaxial bending.  Loads placed through shear center.  Calculation for shear center of a channel.  Loads not placed through shear center.  Biaxial loading. Beam Interaction formulas.  Weak axis capacity of steel shapes.  Example problem of biaxial bending without axial load.  Loads not applied through shear center.
Material covered in text: pages 254-260
Class 24
3/19
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Biaxial bending.  Shear centers.  Controlling equations for bi-axial bending.  Weak-axis bending strength.
Material covered in text: pages 261-270
Class 25
3/21
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Biaxial bending for various loading cases. Roof purlins. Beam columns. Interaction formulas. Design of members for combined forces – axial and bending about xx and yy axis.
Material covered in text: pages 271-302
Class 26
3/23
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Moment amplification. Combined forces. Three alternative methods of design for stability.
Material covered in text: pages 302-311
Class 27
3/26
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Columns bent by end moments vs. those bent by transverse loads. Notional loads. Evaluation of moment amplification factor and correction to that factor Cm. Example problems.
Material covered in text: pages 312-315
Class 28
3/28
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Example problems for combined axial and bending. Bolted connections. Shear stress in bolts, bearing stress in plates.
Material covered in text: pages 319-335
Class 29
4/2
MP4 502
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Class Notes 502
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Bearing strength, Spacing, Edge-Distance Requirements, Strength of Fasteners
Material covered in text: pages 380-390
Class 30
4/4
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Class Notes 502
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Examples, Installation of high-strength bolts, methods of calibrating tension in bolts, How bolts are made, Slip-critical vs. bearing type connections,
Material covered in text: pages 391-414
Class 31
4/6
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Using tables for bolt strength, Design examples, Tensile strength of bolts.
Material covered in text: pages 401-417
Class 32
4/9
Quiz B
No class
MP4 502
MP4 503
Quiz B
No class
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Combined shear and tension in fasteners.
Example problems.
Material covered in text: pages 418-426
Class 33
4/11
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Combined shear and tension in fasteners.
Example problems.
Material covered in text: pages 426-434
Class 34
4/13
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Combined shear and tension in fasteners.
Example problems.
Welded connections.
Material covered in text: pages 439-441
Class 35
4/16
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Cover Quiz B
Class 36
4/18
MP4 502
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Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Welds. Fillet welds. Strength. Direction of loading.
Material covered in text: pages 442-449
Class 37
4/20
MP4 502
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Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Design of welds. Min/max sizes, other practical considerations.  Material covered in text: pages 450-459
Class 38
4/23
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Examples of Eccentric Connections
Elastic Analysis
Material covered in text: pages 475-483
Class 39
4/25
MP4 502
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Class Notes 502
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Eccentrically loaded bolt groups. Plastic behavior of bolts. Analysis by elastic and instantaneous center of rotation methods.
Material covered in text: pages 483-485
Class 40
4/27
MP4 502
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Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Material covered in text: pages 485-490
Class 41
4/30
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Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Material covered in text: pages 490-495
Class 42
5/1
MP4 502
MP4 503
Class Notes 502
Class Notes 503
Material covered in text: pages 496-506

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