Advanced Design of Steel Structures
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The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Design of Steel Structures (subject code ME02000191) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 2 divides the course into 6 units, covering 40 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 (ME02000191)Unit 1 Basics of Steel Structures
- Mechanical Properties of steel
- Ductile behavior
- Compactness and non- compactness
- residual stress
- Basic of Plastic theory
- Plastic hinge concept
- Theorem of Plastic collapse
- Plastic analysis of beams
Unit 2 Connections
- Moment & shear resisting connections
- design and detailing of various connection - column to beam
- beam to beam
- roof truss to column and truss to bed block
- Connection between two hollow sections
- failure modes of hollow steel section connection
- Welded connection between circular hollow sections
Unit 3 Design of Industrial Buildings
- selection of bay width
- structural framing
- girts and eave strut
- plane trusses
- Design of Gantry girders
Unit 4 Design of cold formed sections
- stiffened and un stiffened elements
- local buckling and post buckling strength
- shear lag and flange curling
- unusually wide flange section
- short span sections
- members subjected to axial tension
- compression and bending
- Design of beams and columns
- Introduction to pre-engineered buildings using cold-formed sections
Unit 5 Design of Steel Stacks
- proportioning of stack
- Codal provisions
- Loads on Stacks
- Load combinations
- Stresses in Self-supporting stacks
- Design procedure for self-supporting stacks
- Guyed steel stacks
Unit 6 Design of composite structures
- Composite Floor and Roof System Design
- Composite beam
- Open web steel joist/joist girder
- Serviceability requirements
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