UAA Civil Engineering
CE 432 - Steel Design
3.0 Semester Credit Hours - Offered every Fall semester
Catalog Description
Essentials of structural design in steel. Building code requirements and standard practice for the design of basic structural elements and connections are covered.
Course Objective
This course is designed to give senior civil engineering students the ability to design basic steel structural components.
Prerequisite(s)
CE 431 - Structural Analysis with a grade of "C" or better
Expected Outcomes (updated 4/05)
At the conclusion of this course, the students will be able to:
- apply the basic requirements of the American Institute of Steel Construction Design specification.
- design steel tension members
- design connections with bolts and welds
- design simple and continuous steel beams for shear, flexure, and deflection
- design steel columns
- steel beam-columns
- design composite steel/concrete beams
- work in teams to solve a steel design problem.