Principles Of Steel Design

Structural steel behavior, products, material properties, shape selection, design philosophies, code traceability, and load combinations.

Structural steel tension-member yielding, rupture, net area, shear lag, block shear, connection effects, and serviceability.

Steel compression-member buckling, effective length, AISC column strength, local/torsional buckling, stability-method context, and built-up behavior.

Analysis and design of steel beams for flexural strength, focusing on moment capacity, compactness, biaxial bending, and lateral-torsional buckling.

Analysis and design of steel beams for shear capacity and serviceability limits like deflection, ponding, and floor vibration.

Combined axial compression and flexure, second-order effects, AISC interaction equations, stability analysis methods, and bracing.

Structural bolting, bearing-type and slip-critical joints, bolt shear/tension, connected-material limit states, eccentric groups, prying, and code-edition traceability.

Analysis and design of welded connections, covering fillet, groove, plug, and slot welds, as well as eccentric weld groups.

A comprehensive overview of built-up steel plate girders, focusing on web slenderness, stiffeners, and tension-field action.

Composite steel-concrete beams and columns, effective slab width, transformed sections, plastic force equilibrium, shear connectors, construction stages, and partial composite action.

Column base plates, concrete bearing, plate flexure, anchors, shear transfer, shear lugs, and moment-connection force paths.

Ductile seismic design philosophy, steel seismic force-resisting systems, protected zones, connection qualification, capacity design, and AISC 341/AISC 358 coordination.