49133 Steel and Composite Design

Assumed knowledge is of structural steel design to AS4100 Steel Structures for beams, columns and beam-columns. With this basis of assumed knowledge, the subject will introduce students to the plastic analysis of statically indeterminate steel beams and simple frames and the consequent design requirements of AS4100. The subject will also introduce students to the analysis and design of composite steel and concrete beams to AS2327 Composite Structures, of concrete slabs acting compositely with permanent steel formwork, with some reference to AS4600 Cold Formed Steel Structures and, briefly, of composite columns and composite connections. Further, there may be an introduction to structural steel design for torsion.

Assessment: Assignments and design projects (50 per cent), two quizzes (50 per cent).

Texts and references

AS4100–1998 Steel Structures, Standards Australia International, Sydney

AS2327.1–2003 Composite structures, Part 1: Simply supported beams, Standards Australia International, Sydney

Typical availability

Spring semester, City campus
This subject is offered in odd years only; it will next be offered in 2007.