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Dec 26, 2024
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AE 3221 - Steel Design4 lecture hours 0 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
This course presents design of beams, composite beams, columns, beam-columns, tension members, bolted connections, and welded connections for strength and serviceability in accordance with American Institute of Steel Construction specifications. (prereq: AE 3201 ) (coreq: AE 3211 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Analyze and design steel members subject to axial compression
- Analyze and design steel members subject to axial tension
- Analyze and design steel members subject to combined axial force and flexure
- Analyze and design composite steel-concrete members
- Calculate torsional moments acting on steel members and design members to resist torsional moments
- Calculate shear and moment in continuous beam systems and design continuous beams
- Calculate connection capacities based on a limit state analysis
- Apply AISC design criteria and understand fabrication, erection and economic factors
Prerequisites by Topic
- Principles of structural engineering
Course Topics
- Introduction
- Tension members
- Compression members
- Flexural members
- Continuous beams
- Beam-columns
- Composite steel-concrete members
- Torsion
- Connection design
Coordinator
Dr. Christopher Raebel
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