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Steel design
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Steel design, or more specifically, structural steel design, is an area of knowledge of structural engineering used to design steel structures. The structures can range from schools to homes to bridges. There are currently two common methods of steel design: The first (and older) method is the Allowable Strength Design (ASD) method. The second (newer) is the Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) method.[1]
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1 Design for strength 1.1 ASD 1.2 LRFs 1.3 ASD versus LRFD 2 Load combination equations 2.1 Allowable Strength Design 2.2 Load and Resistance Factor Design 3 AISC Steel Construction Manual 4 References
where: Ra = required strength, Rn = nominal strength, specified in Chapters B through K of the AISC SCM, = safety factor, specified in Chapters B through K of the AISC SCM, Rn/ = allowable strength.
LRFs
In this method, the engineer uses the Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) load combinations (below) to determine the required strength of a member and arranges for the allowable strength to satisfy this equation:
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where: Ru = required strength, Rn = nominal strength, specified in Chapters B through K of the AISC SCM, = resistance factor, specified in Chapters B through K of the AISC SCM, Rn = allowable strength.
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S = snow load, R = nominal load due to initial rainwater or ice, exclusive of the ponding contribution, T = self straining load, W = wind load, Wi = wind on ice.
Special Provisions exist for accounting flood loads and atmospheric loads i.e. Di and Wi
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References
1. ^ Steel Construction Manual (13th ed.). American Institute of Steel Construction. 2006. ISBN 1-56424-055X. 2. ^ http://peer.berkeley.edu/~yang/courses/ce248/CE248_CN_Loading_and_Gravity_loads.pdf
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