DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES

SEMESTER: JAN 2012

QUIZ 1
Total marks 10. Each question carries one mark.
1. Name the two design codes for steel structures for the course.
1)BS EN 1993-1-1:2005 Eurocode 3 Design of Steel Structures Part 1-1: General rules
and rules for buildings, British Standards.
2)BS EN 1993-1-8:2005, Eurocode 3: Design of Steel structures - Part 1-8: Design of
joints, British Standards.
2. What is structural steel?
Structural steel is steel available in various shapes and forms and utilised to support loads and
resist the various forces to which a structure is subjected. It contains 98% or more iron with small
amounts of elements derived from raw materials and also elements added to improve certain
properties. The elements are C, Si, Mn, P,S, Niobium, Vanadium. Carbon improves strength and
hardness but reduces ductility and toughness. Carbon percentage is restricted between 0.2 and
0.25% to produce steel that is weldable and not brittle. There are smaller amounts of manganese,
nickel etc.
3. List the advantages of steel as a structural material (any five).
High strength to low weight - good for long span bridges, tall buildings
Uniformity-properties do not change with time unlike concrete
Elasticity behaves closer to design assumptions than most materials follows Hookes
law to fairly high stress
Ductility withstand extensive deformation without failure under high tensile stress
free from sudden failure
Additions to existing structures
Time saving
Flexibility in fabrication
Reuse on demolition
4. List the disadvantages of steel as a structural material (any two).
Maintenance cost corrosion requires periodic treatment
Fire proofing strength tremendously reduced at high temperature high cost of fire
proofing
Susceptibility to buckling for long slender members
Fatigue strength reduced if large number of stress reversals
5. Fill up the table below

Grade of Steel

Yield Strength or
Design
Strength(N/mm2)

Ultimate strength
fu

Grade 55

S450

440

550

Grade 50

S355

355

510

Grade 43

S275

275

430

Grade 36

S 235

235

360

6. Fill up the following table on limit states (examples of limit states)

Ultimate limit states (ULS)

Serviceability limit states(SLS)

Strength

Deflection

Stability against overturning

Vibration

Brittle fracture

Wind oscilattion

Fatigue

Durability

7. Name 3 hot rolled sections : I section (column section), Channel section (or C section),
square hollow section, I section (beam section), T section, angle section

8. Name 3 cold formed sections: RHS, z section, c section , hat section

9. Draw and name a compound section: examples double angles, double I sections, Double
channel sections etc

10. Draw and name a fabricated section