Advanced Steel Structure Design

Steel is the most used construction material in the USA for industrial buildings, high-rise towers, bridges and other structures. It competes with reinforced concrete in the world because of its many favorable characteristics including high strength, high stiffness, ductility and toughness, speed of erection, competitive cost, etc. Its use in the Middle East region has been mostly confined to industrial plants, offshore structures and warehouses. The lower construction time and it can be used as a temporary structure make it competitive than the concrete structure. Design of steel structures has widely been based on the Allowable Stress Design based on the AISC. Many designers and fabricators still use the old allowable stress techniques. The petroleum industry is interesting in modify the structure in case of offshore structures topsides or in the on shore facilities to carry more load or add more machine so the management of change must be considered and important.

Day 1:

·       Introduction

·       The case for steel use in construction.

·       Structure system

·       The comparison between different structure system

·       Define the appraise, select and define step in steel structure projects

·       Available steel grades and sections.

·       Codes of practice for design, evolution from allowable stress to LRFD and limit state design.

·       Preparing SOR and BOD

·       Codes and standards Philosophy

Day 2:

·       Selection of structural systems

·       Rigidly connected frames

·       Plane trusses

·       Space trusses

·       Design of tension members

·       Design of compression members.

·       Design of Beams

·       Design of Beam-Columns

Day 3:

·       Different types of temporary support

·       Bolted connections design

·       Welded connections design

·       Fabrication and erection of steel connection

·       New methods for connecting steel to Concrete.

·       Anchor bolt design

Day 4:

·       Types of different soil

·       Choose suitable foundation based on soil type

·       The required simple test to identify the soil Foundation under reciprocating and centrifugal machine

Day 5:

·       Design of composite beams.

·       Design of composite columns

·       Design of composite slabs

·       Preparation of fabrication and erection shop-drawings

·       Specifying structural steel