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 and reinforced concrete beams to determine their flexural capacity
• Analyze steel and reinforced concrete beams to determine their axial capacity
• Design steel and reinforced concrete beams and columns for internal forces
• Describe common connections between structural members

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• Review of shear and moment diagrams
• Design approaches - ASD and LRFD
• Load path and tributary loading
• 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 (design)
• 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 reinforced concrete beams
• Estimating reinforced concrete beam deflections
• Introduction to detailing concrete reinforcement
• Reinforced concrete column capacity (axial load only)