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 2180610) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 8 divides the course into 4 units, covering 18 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 (2180610)Unit 1 Loads & Load Combinations
- Appraisal of loading standards such as I.S
- Effect of wind and earthquake on structure
Unit 2 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 3 Design of Industrial Building
- Structural layout of industrial building
- Various types of trusses and their selection
- effect of wind loads on purlin and trusses
- bracing systems
- gantry girder – static and moving loads
- selection & design of section
Unit 4 Design of plate girders
- 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
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