Structural Steel Design for Buildings

Learning

Mark Fleischhaker successfully completed the C13 Structural Steel Design for Buildings course from Structural Engineers Association of BC Certificate in Structural Engineering Program.

Course Purpose:
This course is intended to provide students with the skills and knowledge required for effective design of steel buildings using Canadian Limit States Steel Standard CSA S16-14. The course is intended to promote better understanding of the design considerations of steel buildings. The course is appropriate as a code refresher or for recently graduated engineers as it will cover items that are not traditionally part of a steel design course including conceptual design of steel framing systems, steel decking, open web steel joists and HSS trusses, miscellaneous metal. Seismic sections of this course are now covered by the SEABC E12 (Seismic Design of steel structures) and this course will concentrate on the non-seismic portions of seismic design and additional non-seismic material will be added to replace the seismic sections now covered in E12. Where possible, current design practice will be demonstrated using worked problems including weekly home assignments. The course is fast paced and students should have taken a previous steel course. Possession of the CISC Handbook of Steel Construction 11th edition (2014 edition) is required. Also required is a copy of Structural Steel for Canadian Buildings: A Designer’s Guide (3rd Edition), which is available from Amazon.ca. The course is fast paced, and students should have taken a previous steel course.

Selected Topics:
Advantages and disadvantages of structural steel, material grades and section availability, basic beam design, steel deck design for vertical loading, roof deck, composite floor deck, design of roof beams for wind uplift, ponding, snow drifting, conceptual design of steel framing systems, framing for openings in floors and roofs, framing for plan irregularities, beam holes, stability issues, cantilever beam stability, Gerber framing system, open web steel joists, hollow structural section trusses and frames, HSS connections, composite beams, vibration analysis, columns, column base-plates, beam-columns, connection design for the design engineer, shop drawing review, miscellaneous metal.

Location:	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Completion Date:	December 2012