Advanced Steel Design
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Advanced Steel Design Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Steel Design (subject code 3722007) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 2 divides the course into 6 units, covering 31 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 (3722007)Unit 1 Properties of Steel
- Mechanical Properties
- Compactness and non- compactness
- residual stresses
Unit 2 Plastic Behaviour of Structural Steel
- Plastic theory
- Plastic hinge concept
- Plastic collapse load
- conditions of plastic analysis
- Theorem of Plastic collapse
- Methods of Plastic analysis
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
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