Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:

• Classify various structural steel shapes, grades of steel, and identify the corresponding mechanical properties.
• Design steel tension members, columns subjected to compressive axial load, beam-columns, and laterally supported and unsupported steel beams for flexure, shear and deflections in accordance with CSA Standard S16 Limit States Design of Steel Structures.
• Describe common bolted and welded connection details.
• Explain how the structural elements of a building work together to support the design loads.
• Design the key structural elements in low-rise steel buildings subjected to gravity and lateral loading.

Effective as of Fall 2008