Hands On Training

Steel Beam and Plate Girder Design

Purdue University

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Course Features

Duration

8 weeks

Delivery Method

Online

Available on

Limited Access

Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Level

Advanced

Effort

3 hours per week

Teaching Type

Instructor Paced

Course Description

Built-up plate girders are used extensively in bridges and as transfer girders in buildings.

This course will cover the design of built-up plate girders with an emphasis on proportioning, shear and flexural strength, and local/global stability.

Students will leave this course with an in-depth knowledge of relevant limit states and failure modes as well as a familiarity with the AISC360 (American Institute of Steel Construction) provisions for plate girder design. This course is best suited for students with an undergraduate civil engineering background including a basic steel design course and will build on these concepts.

Students will learn from a top researcher with over 20 years of experience in the field. Professor Varma focuses on teaching through exploring example problems and applications of fundamental concepts, encouraging his students to both understand the fundamental principles of plate girder behavior and be able to apply these concepts in realistic design scenarios.

This course is available to practicing engineers for 1.5 CEUs for learners completing the course on the verified track.

Course Overview

Live Class

Human Interaction

Personlized Teaching

International Faculty

Post Course Interactions

Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

Recommend completing an undergraduate steel design course.

What You Will Learn

Describe the different shear force transfer mechanisms in plate girders including the shear strength of webs with and without tension field action and effects of transverse stiffeners.

Evaluate the flexural capacity of I-shaped plate girders regardless of component slenderness.

Evaluate the shear capacity of an I-shaped plate girder and design transverse stiffeners as appropriate.

Proportion plate girders appropriately for strength and stability requirements.

Understand basic buckling theory including beam and plate buckling behavior.

Course Content

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Module 1: Steel as a Material and Beam Buckling Review

Module 2: Proportioning Plate Girders and Local Buckling

Module 3: Plate Girder Flexural Capacity (AISC 360 F2 and F3)

Module 4: Plate Girder Flexural Capacity (AISC360 F4 and F5)

Course Instructors

Amit Varma

Karl H. Kettelhut Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of Bowen Laboratory of Large-Scale CE Research at Purdue University

Prof. Varma has dedicated his academic and professional life to the development of innovative steel-concrete composite structures for the built infrastructure including commercial and residential bui...

Morgan Broberg

Doctoral Fellow, Civil Engineering at Purdue University

Morgan Broberg is a doctoral fellow working under the direction of Professor Varma. Her work focuses on the behavior, analysis, and design of composite walls (C-PSW/CFs). Her recent work on developin...

Sahaas Bhardwaj

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Purdue University (At the time of these recordings), Assistant Professor, University of Alabama (Current) at Purdue University

Dr. Saahas Bhardwaj’s research focuses on the fundamental behavior of structures under multi-hazard loading. He has conducted large-scale experimental and numerical research subjecting structural mem...

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