Introduction:
In this course, topics such as bolt designs, welded connections  used in steel structures, compression and tension member designs, batten plate designs, lacing systems, beam designs, base designs, lateral restraint, combined axial and bending resistance, stress and strain yield strength levels, how steel fails, and shear, bending, and axial resistance are some of the areas of focus.
Participants after attending this training will be furnished with the expert knowledge they need to function effectively in structural steel designs and engineering.
Course Objectives
The main objectives of this course are to enable participants to be able to:
- Gather the experience and skills needed to design high-quality steel structures
- Have a better understanding of the modern tools and techniques for risk-based inspection for a better maintenance plan
- Have a deep knowledge of the design of steel structures on machines
- Understand well load application on steel structure and how to deal with tension and compression stress
- Be intimately familiar with pipe rack design
- Get to use modern methods and techniques in the steel structure design
Organizational Benefits
Organizations that will have professionals who have undergone this course will benefit in the following ways:
- Application of advanced tools and techniques while designing steel structures
- Well-managed steel structure designing process to minimize costs
- Detailed risk assessment of all steel structures
- Increased profitability due to satisfied clients who will benefit from better designs
- Improved credibility due to producing high-quality steel designs
- The continuous and easily accessible go-to person on steel structure design matters
- Appropriate handling of all steel structure designing process
- Projects enhancements by high-quality engineering review of all the steel structures
- Better and quality investments by having better and more durable steel structures for a long lifetime
- Reduce the repair and maintenance costs by having durable designs
 Personal Benefits
All the structural steel design training participants will be able to:
- Have a complete and wholesome understanding of all the steel design details
- Improved exposure and confidence to take up high-level positions due to the skills they will gain
- Enhanced and well-developed design of elements skills
- Better understanding and exposure to handling and working with advanced technology to achieve operations excellence by producing quality designs that will reduce risks of occupational hazards
- High contributions to the credibility of the organization and development through enhanced safety by using better steel designs
- Complete understanding of the existing steel structures and risk foresight
- High placement for better jobs among their peers because of their steel structure design skills and knowledge
- Ability to lead others when doing structural steel designs
 Who Should Attend?
- Civil engineers who intend to sharpen their design skills
- Steel fabricators who interact with steel designs regularly and would like to fabricate quality designs
- Project planners to increase their risk foresight skills
- Construction engineers who intend to easily identify structural design and calculations misfit while in the field
- Design engineers to produce quality designs
- Steel quality assurance officers who want to have a deeper understanding of their work
- Any other professionals who might be interested in understanding structural steel design
 Course Outline
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Module 1: Introduction to Structural Steel Design Training
- Various steel sections
- Computational of loads for different designs such as ASD and LRFG
- How and why steel structures fail
- Techniques to get an acceptable level of safety easily
- Building specifications and codes
- Review of basic civil and analysis structure
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Module 2: Steel Beams Designs
- Beams and their definitions
- Design of beams
- Axial and bending tension subjection and endurance
- Deflection in beams design
- Using different software for simulation
- Beam columns design
- Code design procedure
- Equivalent moment factor
- Tension and bending forces on beam columns
- Eccentrically loaded beams design
- Nominal strength
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Module 3: Steel Connections
- Fillet welds design
- How joints that have bolts handle shear tension
- Introduction to steel welds and their types
- Tension loads and their effect on bolted joints
- Bolted connections
- Eccentric connections
- Welded connections
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Module 4: Analysis of Compression Members
- Euler formula in steel design
- Intermediate column formulas
- Long column formulars
- Short column formulas
- Failure modes
- Elastic buckling of slender
- Classification of the cross-section
- Displacements
- Single angle struts
- The effective length of compression members
- Compression members are composed of two components
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Module 5: Design of Compression Members
- Built-up columns
- Base plates best designs for concentrically loaded columns
- Column splices design
- AISC best designs tables
- Single angle compression members
- Lacing and batten systems
- Compression members structure
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Module 6: Composite Sections
- Composite constructions
- Concrete encased section designs
- Flexural strength
- Composite section moment capacity
- Composite section defections
- Cover plated beams
- Pan floors are an example of composite concrete and floors
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Module 7: Steel Building
- Roof construction types
- Steel roofs
- Interior partitions using steel
- Exterior walls steel design
- Structural steel designs
- Fireproofing of steel buildings
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Module 8: Advantages and Disadvantages of Structural Steel Design
- Limit state design
- Lateral torsional buckling LTB
- Design resistance and how it affects general strength
- Stress calculations
- Advantages of steel designs
- Disadvantages of steel design
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Module 9: Stress and Resistance
- Stress concentration
- Fatigues resistance
- Corrosion resistance
- Structural steel products
- Fabrication and erection
- Residual stress
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Module 10: Design of Plate Girders
- Web panel sheer exposure
- Plate girders
- Girder components welding
- General considerations
- Using ISO 800:2007 to design girders
- The behaviour of transverse web stiffness
- Loading considerations
- Fatigue effects
- Maximum load effects
 Method of Instruction:
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Online
Course Duration:
5 Days
Type of Certificate Issued:
 Certificate in Structural Steel Design
You can choose any of the three below:
- Digital Certificate(Downloadable PDF)
- Physical Certificate with security marking shipped to your location with a price
- Framed Certificate with security markings shipped to your location with a price.
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