Properties of steel
Advantages and disadvantages of steel as a structural design material
Types of steel structures
Framed structures
Tensile structures
Thin-plate structures
Structural shapes
Design approaches
Allowable stress design
Plastic design
Load and resistance factor design

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN

Types of tension members
Net and effective net areas
Design of tension members according to ASD
Examples of design of tension members based on ASD
Design of circular suspension cable roofs
Interactive design of circular suspension roofs

Types of beams
Standard hot-rolled sections
Plate-covered sections
Plate and box girders
Composite beams
Sheet beams
Review of beam theory
Introduction
Elastic bending of beams
Shear stresses
Local buckling
Lateral torsional buckling
Allowable bending stresses
Bending about the major axis
Compact sections
Noncompact sections
Sections with slender compression elements
Bending about the minor axis
Compact sections
Noncompact sections
Sections with slender compression elements
Allowable shear stress
Web crippling
Deflections
Examples of design of beams
Load and resistance factor design of beams
Design for flexure
Design for shear
Design consideration for concentrated loads
Local web yielding
Web crippling
Sidesway web buckling
Compression buckling of the web

Introduction
The Euler formula for buckling load of columns
Residual stresses
Allowable compressive stresses according to the ASD code
Examples of design of column according to the ASD code
Load and resistance factor design of compression members
Load and resistance factor design of columns

Introduction
Stresses in beam-columns
Beam-column interaction formulas according to the ASD code
Design of beam-columns according to the ASD code using equivalent axial compression load
Effective length of columns in braced and unbraced frames
Examples of design of beam-columns according to the ASD code
Load and resistance factor design of beam-columns

Riveted connections
Bolted connections
Welded connections

Introduction
Postbuckling behavior of the web plate
Proportioning of the web plate
Proportioning of the flanges
Intermediate stiffeners
Bearing stiffeners
Design of welded connections
Design of a simple homogeneous plate girder based on the ASD code
Deign of a hybrid girder based on the ASD code
Additional examples of design of plate girders according to the ASD code
Load and resistance factor design of plate girders
Design of simple plate girder based on the LRFD code