CE532 STRUCTURAL STEEL DESIGN

Instructor: Professor Hojjat Adeli

Catalogue Description: Design of Steel Structures

Lecture/Laboratory Schedule: Four hours of lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite: CE431

Textbooks and Other Required Material:

• Adeli, H., Interactive Microcomputer-Aided Structural Steel Design, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1988 (Out of print). The book has been updated as "Web-Based Interactive Structural Steel Design" and placed on the following Web page: http://hcgl.eng.ohio-state.edu/~ceg532/main.htm
• Manual of Steel Construction – Allowable Stress Design, 9^th ed., 2^nd Revision, 3^rd Impression, American Institute of Steel Construction, Chicago, 1999.

Class Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30-3:18 PM

Exam Schedule

• Midterm Exam No.1: Thursday, (5th Week)
• Midterm Exam No.2: Thursday, (9th Week)
• Final Exam: Tuesday, (Final Week)

Grading System

• Homework : 15 %
• Computer Project : 10 %
• Midterm Exam No.1 : 20 %
• Midterm Exam No.2 : 20 %
• Final Exam : 35 %

Course Objectives:

1. To learn structural design problem solving and its formulation
2. To learn the AISC Allowable Stress Design Specifications
3. To learn design of members in steel structures
4. To be introduced to computer-aided design of steel structures

Topic Covered: Refer to the Table of Content