Teaching Plan

Structural Engineering Design -II

Unit

Unit-1

Description of Topics

No of lectures
required

Materials and Methods:

Types of Structural Steel, Physical and Mechanical Properties, Advantages of steel as a structural material

material, Rolled Sections - Tapered Flange and Parallel Flange, Built up sections,Convention for Member Axes.

Plastic Theory, Shape factor, Methods of design,Limitations of

Working stress and Plastic design methods, Advantages of Limit State Design, Limit States of Strength nd
Serviceability, Partial Safety Factors, Loads and Load Combinations,
Geometrical Properties,
Classification of Cross Sections, Maximum effective slenderness ratio.

Fasteners:
Unit-2

Location details of fasteners, Bearing type bolts, Friction Grip type Bolting, Welds and Welding,

Advantages and Disadvantages of Welded Connections, Lap and Butt Joints,

Truss joint connections by bolts
Truss joint connections by welds

2
2
2
2

Tension Members:
Unit-3

10

Design Strength due to Yielding of Gross Section, Rupture of Critical Section,Block Shear,

Design of Axially Loaded Tension Members,

Steel Angles under Tension.

2
2
2

Compression Members:
Design Strength, Effective length of compression members,
Design of axially loaded compression members,
Steel Angles under Compression,
Design of Column bases axial load, Laced Columns, Battened columns.
Unit-4

Flexural Members:
Unit-5

10

Design Strength in Bending (Flexure)

Effective length for lateral torsional buckling, Shear,
Design of Laterally Supported and Laterally Unsupported Beams with unstiffened webs

15
2
1
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1

10
2
2
3
3

Assignments

Teaching Plan
Structural a

Unit

Unit-1

Description of Topics

Approximate Method:

Analysis of multistoreyed frames for horizontal loads by Cantilever Methods

Analysis of multistoreyed frames for horizontal loads by Portal Methods
Dead and Live Load (Substitute Frame) Analysis for multistoreyed buildings.

2
2
1

Flexibility Method:
Unit-2

Introduction to Matrix method of analysis

Formulation of flexibility matrices
Analysis of beams,
Rigid plane frames
Pin jointed plane frames

Stiffness Method:
Unit-3

Formulation of stiffness matrices

Analysis of beams,
Rigid plane frames
Pin jointed plane frames

Finite Element Method:

Unit-4

1
2
2
2
2

Comparison of results of multi storied building with STAAD results

Basic Properties of matrix with focus to Eigen Value problem

Write the Moment area method.

10
4
2
2
2

15
2
1
2
2
2

Shape functions for Rectangular generalized coordinates and by using Lagrange Polynomials
Pascals triangle
Assembly of stiffness matrix for springs element
Assembly of stiffness matrix for bar element
Assembly of stiffness matrix for beam element

2
1
1
1
1

Plastic Hinge Concept

Fully Plastic Moment,
Collapse mechanism,
Plastic analysis of beam and frames.

Assignments

10

Cartesian and Natural Coordinates

Element DOFs
Shape functions for Bar generalized coordinates and by using Lagrange Polynomials
Shape functions for Beams generalized coordinates and by using Lagrange Polynomials
Shape functions for Triangular generalized coordinates and by using Lagrange Polynomials

Plastic Analysis:
Unit-5

No of lectures
required

10
2
2
3
3

What is Degree of Freedom? Their Formula and their use?

Write the Program in C++/MATLAB/FORTRAN for Finite element analysis of the Bar.