Steel Structures (3cr)

Objective

Occupational and environmental safety in construction
Students are competent in managing the safe construction of steel structures. They know how to organise the installation of steel components and the construction of temporary support structures, also attending to occupational safety issues.

Competence in structural engineering
Students know the various types of steel and their uses, and know how to determine the design strengths of steel. They know the more common steel profiles (rolled and welded), and cross section classifications and how they are determined. Students know how to design simple beams and columns in case of flexural buckling. Students understand stability cases (buckling, lateral buckling of beams and buckling of plates) and take them into consideration in structural design. They also know thin-walled profiles and their uses.

Competence in the construction process
Students are familiar with common steel frame structures, structural members and their joint and support mechanisms. Students understand the principles of bracing steel frames, their behaviour and the importance of temporary support and stability during construction.

Content

? Steel as a construction material, types of steel and design strengths
? Steel profiles, cross section classification
? Thin-walled profiles and their uses
? Stability phenomena and how to take them into consideration in structural design
? Steel frame systems, bracing of steel frames
? Design of simple beams, design of columns in case of flexural buckling
? Installation and transport of steel structures
? Fire protection
? Excursions to sites/steel factory

Qualifications

Structural Mechanics, Basics of Structural Design

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1 Student knowns the basics of the course
3 Student knowns the contents of the course well
5 Student knowns the contents of the course well and can apply their knowledge in practice

Materials

Eurocodes/regulations on steel structures (partly).

RunkoRYL 2010 General quality criteria for frame structures in house building.
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Lecturer?s own material.

Teaching methods

Lectures, home work, laboratory work, excursions.