Steel Structures 1 (5 cr)
Code: RAK2H3-3006
General information
Enrollment
16.04.2022 - 12.10.2022
Timing
24.10.2022 - 26.02.2023
Credits
5 op
Virtual proportion (cr)
1 op
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Bachelor of Engineering, Construction Engineering
Teachers
- Jorma Tuomisto
- Martti Perälä
Student groups
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RAK20SU
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RAK20TU
Objective
Competence in the construction process
The student will make use of computer programmes in the designing process of steel structures.
Competence in structural engineering
Students will be competent in designing steel structures in ultimate and serviceability limit states according to the eurocodes. Students will be competent in designing joints for steel structures according to eurocodes.
Content
- Steel as building material
- Strength and elastic properties of structural steel
- Steel grades
- Cross-section classes
- Resistance of cross-section under tension, compression, bending, shearing and torsion
- Resistance of cross-section under combination of internal forces
- Designing for deflection
- Resistance in case of stability phenomena as buckling and lateral torsional buckling
- Basics of designing bolted connections
- Basics of designing welded connections
- Bracing of steel structures
- Using computer programmes in the designing of steel structures
- Laboratory work
Materials
Eurocode EN 1993. Hitsatut profiilit EN 1993-käsikirja, Ruukki. Rakenneputket EN-1993-käsikirja, Ruukki. Teräsrakenteiden suunnittelu- ja mitoitus Eurocode 3 –oppikirja, TRY. Lecturer's own material.
Teaching methods
Lectures and calculation exercises. Structural test in the laboratory.
Student workload
Total work load of the course: 133 h
- of which scheduled studies: 64 h
- of which autonomous studies: 69 h
Evaluation scale
1-5
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
The student is able to use the Eurocode for steel structures in a simple basic dimensioning situation. The student is able to define the cross-section class.
Assessment criteria, good (3)
The student is able to use the Eurocode for steel structures in the dimensioning of different bar structures.
Assessment criteria, excellent (5)
The student is able to apply the Eurocode for steel structures very well in the dimensioning of different bar structures, paying attention to the stability of the structures.
Assessment methods and criteria
Assessment 0-5.
Qualifications
Statics, Strength of Materials, Statically indeterminate frame structures, Framework Systems and Basics of Structural Design.