CAE 3501 - Principles of Structural Engineering

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits

• Describe loadings and design approaches - ASD and LRFD
• Discuss the material properties of steel and concrete and the common geometric properties of steel and reinforced concrete structural elements
• Explain the assumed mechanical behavior of flexural members and compressive elements made with steel or reinforced concrete
• Analyze framing systems to determine load paths and loadings on structural components
• Analyze statically determinate structural elements and systems to determine the internal forces and the displacements
• Analyze steel or reinforced concrete elements to determine their flexural or axial capacity
• Design steel or reinforced concrete beams or columns for given or calculated forces
• Describe common connections between structural members

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• Review of tributary load, load types, shear and moment diagrams
• Design approaches - ASD and LRFD
• Load path, different types of loading (gravity loads, live load reductions, conceptual wind loads and factors affecting wind loads)
• Sustainability in structural engineering

Steel and concrete design

• Introduction to steel materials and shapes
• Introduction to AISC specifications for beams and columns
• Steel beam flexural (moment-curvature behavior of reinforced steel beams)
• Lateral-torsional buckling (conceptual only)
• Shear capacity
• Calculating steel beam deflections under various load patterns
• Steel column buckling capacity
• Introduction to bolted and welded connections (behavior or different types of connections, rigidity level, pin and moment connections)
• Introduction to concrete and reinforcement materials and shapes
• Introduction to ACI specifications for beams and columns
• Moment-curvature behavior of reinforced concrete beams, stress-strain relations
• Reinforced concrete beam flexural analysis and design (one-way slab, T-beams)
• Shear behavior of RC beams (conceptual but no analysis or design)
• Estimating reinforced concrete beam deflections
• Introduction to detailing concrete reinforcement
• Reinforced concrete column capacity (axial load only)

Structural system design, load path and transferring gravity and lateral loads safely to foundation, BIM/Revit