Holy Angel University

College of Engineering and Architecture

Department of Civil Engineering

Course Title: SSTEEL (Structural Steel)

Course Description: This course deals on the design of structural steel members subjected to flexure,
tension, and compression members, combined stressed members, welded, and bolted
connections using the Allowable Stress Design (ASD), and the Plastic Limit Method and
Load Resistance Factor Design Method (LRFD).

General Objectives: Identify the constituent materials of steel and understand their behavior.

Apply techniques in structural design and analysis of structural steel.

Formulate correct design strategies based on theoretical and situational experiences.

Understand and apply the different types of loads to structures using National Structural
Code of the Philippines.

Pre-requisite: THEORY2 (Structural Theory 2)

Course Outline

TOPICS

1. Introduction

1.1 Structural Properties of Steel

 1.2 Structural Steel Shapes
1.3 Definitions

2. Tension Members

2.1 Allowable Tensile Stress

2.2 Gross Area
2.3 Net Area
2.4 Effective Net Area
2.5 Analysis of Tension Members
2.6 Block Shear
2.7 Design of Tension Members
2.8 Threaded Rods and Cables
2.9 Sag Rods

3. Compression Members

3.1 Design of Compression Members

3.2 Local Buckling
3.3 Slenderness Ratio
3.4 Tie Plates and Lacing
3.5 Column Base Plates

4. Beams

4.1 Compact Sections

4.2 Laterally Supported Beams
4.3 Laterally Unsupported Beams

5. Beam-Columns
 5.1 Effective Length Factors
5.2 Axial Compression and Bending
5.3 Axial Tension and Bending

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

6. Special Topics In Beams

6.1 Unsymmetrical Bending

6.2 Cover Plated Beams
6.3 Composite Bending Members
6.4 Holes in Beams
6.5 Web Yielding and Web Crippling
6.6 Beam Bearing Plate

7. Shear

7.1 Allowable Shear Stresses

7.2 Shear Center

8. Welded Connections

8.1 Types of Welding

8.2 Types of Joints
8.3 Teb Yielding and Web Crippling
8.4 Beam Bearing Plate

9. Bolted Connections
 9.1 Installation of High-Strength Bolts
9.2 Type of Connections
9.3 Code Provisions
9.4 Bearing-Type Connections with Concentric Loading
9.5 Friction-Type Connections with Concentric Loading

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

9.6 Prying Action

9.7 Bolts Subjected to Eccentric Shear

10. Plate Girders

10.1 Allowable Bending Stresses

10.2 Transverse Intermediate Stiffeners
10.3 Bearing Stiffeners
10.4 Web Crippling
10.5 Combined Bending and Shear
10.6 Hybrid Plate Girders

11. Load And Resistance Factor Design Method

11.1 Introduction
11.2 Tension Members
11.3 Compression Members
11.4 Beams

FINAL EXAMINATION

LEARNING RESOURCES:
TEXTBOOK: STRUCTURAL STEEL DESIGN ;Jack Mc Cormac ,Pearson Education,New Jersey
2007

REFERENCES: STEEL STRUCTURES; S. Vinnakota; McGraw-Hill, Boston; 2006

NAT’L STRUCTURAL CODE OF THE PHIL.; Association of Structural Engineers of the

Philippines; [4] ASEP Publications, Quezon City; 2006

DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES; S. Duggal; McGraw-Hill, New Delhi; 2006

SRUCTURAL STABILITY OF STEEL;Theodore V.Galmbos,John Wiley,New Jersey

2008

ASEP STEEL HANDBOOK; Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines;

ASEP Publications, Quezon City; 2005