Design of Steel Structures
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Design of Steel Structures Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Design of Steel Structures (subject code 3170618) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 7 divides the course into 3 units, covering 15 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3170618)Unit 1 Unit-1
- Introductions Loads & Load combinations Appraisal of loading standards such as I.S
- Effect of wind and earthquake on structure Connections: Stiffened and unstiffened
- moment & shear resisting structural connections
- design and detailing of various connection - roof truss to column
- column to beam
- beam to beam and truss to bed block
Unit 2 Unit-2
- Design of Plate Girder Modes of failure : Elastic buckling
- Bending in the plane of web, Local buckling
- Buckling in the plane of web, Vertical buckling of the compression flange
- Shear buckling Design of bolted
- welded plate girder by Tension field Method & Simple Post Critical Method including design of vertical & horizontal stiffeners
- Detailing of various elements of Plate girder
Unit 3 Unit-3
- Design of foot-over bridge Structural system of through & deck type bridges
- design of foot-over bridge & its Supporting system
- Detailing of Various elements of Foot over bridge. 10 Subject Code: 3170618 w.e.f