Building Structural Systems in Steel and Concrete

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In this course, students gain an ability to design simple building members in steel and concrete using current professional standards, specifications, and guidelines. Students will learn how to combine these members into simple structural systems and compare the performance and load carrying characteristics of these systems. The course also addresses general performance parameters of these materials, construction issues, and key systemsintegration issues for beams, columns, flooring and roofing systems, and lateral bracing systems constructed in steel and concrete. By the end of the course students will be able to: apply structural loads based on relevant codes and standards; understand the layout of various steel flooring and roof systems; select steel deck system based on design requirements; calculate the loads for different deck configurations and use them to assess the forces on floor members; design floor members including joists and standard steel W-shapes; calculate the loads on steel columns and design them; understand various lateral load resisting system in steel buildings and their efficient layout; understand various types of connections in steel buildings; understand various reinforced concrete floor systems and their applicability; calculate the loads and moments on beams, girders and one way-slabs; analyze beams for flexure and shear; design columns and two-way slabs using tables from the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI). This course is considered to be the terminal course in structures for non-Structural option AE students, and is designed to provide a general understanding of design, construction, and integration issues that affect these structural systems. This course may not be taken by students in the Structural option in the Architectural Engineering undergraduate program or by students in the Architecture program.