Study Guide

Objective

After completing the course, the student can:
- select a suitable cross-sectional design for the purpose
- calculate bearing capacity taking shear buckling into account
- calculate latheral buckling capacity for beams
- design welds

Content

- Welding
- Welded cross sections, primarily beams
- Shear buckling
- Latheral buckling
- Cross-section optimization

Qualifications

Steel structures 1

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Can by calculation find out about the tilting capacity of a rolled beam profile.
Can by calculation produce effective cross section for a beam.
Can explain the phenomenon of shear buckling.
Knows how point loads affect I-beams and how the tensions are distributed in the cross-section.
Familiar with the principles for optimizing welded cross sections.
Familiar with the tension distribution used in sizing welds with the component method.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Can calculate tilting capacity for an overbearing and partially braced beam.
Can design a beam for shear buckling.
Can calculate the beam's load carrying capacity without stiffening.
Can optimize welded cross sections for I-beams.
Can calculate ordinary weld joints according to the component method.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Can calculate tilting capacity for overbearing and partially staged single symmetrical welded beam. Can optimize the cross section, with regard to external stresses, for a welded beam. Familiar with how shear buckling can be controlled with the aid of life stiffeners.
Can calculate the beam's load carrying capacity, with or without stiffening.
Can optimize welded cross sections for common beam cross sections.
Understands and can apply welding design according to the component method for more demanding joints.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Can correctly calculate cross-sectional bearing capacity for a welded I beam with respect to bending, transverse force, deflection and shear buckling. Can calculate simple weld joints with the component method.

Materials

Materials and references in Moodle