Category: Advanced Design of Stee Structures.

Louver

A louver or louvre is a window blind or shutter with horizontal slats that are angled to admit light and air, but to keep out rain and direct sunshine. The…

Work of External Forces

Whenever a force is displaced by a certain amount or a displacement is induced by a certain force, work is…

Design Of Roof Purlins

Unsymmetrical Bending

When the plane of loads acting transversely on a beam does not contain any of the beam’s axes of symmetry, the…

Purlin Roof Structure

Members Subjected to Combined Forces

Most of the relationships presented in Arts. 3.16 to 3.19 hold only for symmetrical cross sections, e.g., rectangles, circles, and wide-flange…

How Fire Resistance Ratings are Measured

Will a four-hour fire wall really resist the spread of heat and flames for 240 minutes? Will a twohour floor/ceiling…

Steel properties at low and high temperatures

Abstract: Aircraft and chemical processing equipment are now required to work at subzero temperatures and the behavior of metals at…

Fire Protection of Steel Structures

Steel structures Building regulations require certain elements of a structure to have fire resistance. Whether or not an element requires…

Fire Resistant Steels

Steel is inherently a noncombustible material. It loses strength when heated sufficiently.  Steel structural properties and its yield strength considerably…

Beam Design

 Introduction In this article reinforced concret beam design is described in detail with solved examples. Beam design is described more…

Fireproofing Methods for Structural Steel

Many building codes require fireproofing protection to structural steel as a safety precaution. The most common way to provide such protection in…