09CE304 ADVANCED DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES

Credits 3:1:0
Course Objectives :

To design beams subjected to biaxial bending and beam columns as per current code
To have an experience in the complete design of an Industrial building
To learn the concept of design of transmission towers
To learn the analysis and design of multistoeyed buildings
To learn the concepts of plastic analysis and design of steel structures

Unit I Limit state design of Beams and Beam columns

Design of Beams subjected to biaxial bending moment - Design of sections subjected to
unsymmetrical bending - Elastic lateral torsional buckling - Short Beam-Columns - Long BeamColumns - Beam-Columns at Ultimate Load - Effects of Slenderness Ratio and Axial force on
Modes of Failure - Beam-Column under Biaxial bending - Differential Equations and Moment
Magnification Factors
Unit II Industrial Building (Design by Limit State method)
Review of loads on structures-Dead, Live, wind and Seismic loads as per National standardAnalysis and Design of Industrial buildings and bents-Sway and non-sway frames- Design of
Purlins, louver rails, gable column and Gable wind girder-Analysis and design of Gable frames.
Unit III Towers & Stacks
Types of towers - Structural Configurations - Transmission Towers - Loads on Towers - Wind
Load - Analysis of a tower
Earth Quake Design of Steel Structures
Design Philosophy and Methodology Seismic analysis and design verification Seismic
behaviour of beam columns capacity design special devices and systems
Unit IV Multistoreyed Buildings
Structure of Multistoreyed buildings - Bracing of Multistoreyed frames - Vertical load analysis
Substitute frame method - Lateral Load analysis of frames - Portal Method - Cantilever Method Factor method - Design of members Design of connections
Unit V Plastic Theory
Introduction - Shape factor Moment redistribution upper bound, lower bound and Uniqueness
theorems - Combined mechanism - Analysis of single bay and two bay portal frames - Methods
of plastic moment distribution - Design of continuous beams and portal frames
Text Book:
1. Design of Steel Structures - N. Subramanian, Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
Reference Books:
1.Dayaratnam, P., Design of Steel Structures, A.H.Wheeler & Co. Ltd., Allahabad, 2008
2.Arya and Ajmani, Design of Steel Structures, NemChand Brothers, Roorkee, 2007
3.Punmia B.C., Ashok kumar Jain and Arun kumar Jain, `Design of Steel Structures',
Arihant

Publications, Bombay, 2008

4.Gray, C. S. Kent L.E Mitchell, W.A., and Godfey, W.B., "Steel Designer's manual",
English
Language Book Society and Granade Publishing, London, 2003
5.Teaching Resource Materials on Steel SERC, INSDAG, Anna University and IIT
Madras