Pratt Institute School of Architecture

Undergraduate Architecture Program

Arch 232 STEEL PROJECT

Spr. 2021

The plans shown are for a five-story office building with a full basement. The fifth-floor main interior room has a double
height space that is column free. There is a long-span truss along column line 4 that spans across the full building width.

Design the following:

Determine the loadings on the slab, beam and column elements as required for design.

The slab S1 construction is 6” of LW concrete on a 3”-18 ga. metal deck for a DL= 43 psf.

Design the roof beams R1 and R2. LL deflection to not exceed l/600 . Choose the most efficient sizes. Detail the cross
section of roof beam to roof girder connection

Develop the free body diagram for the truss along column line 4, showing roof loads, reactions and dimensions. Design
the most heavily loaded top chord member, bottom chord member & diagonal. Note, the panel points align with the beam
and girder locations. Ignore the elevator & stair core openings, assume all point loads from the roof beams are identical.
The truss connection at a top chord panel point is to be detailed. Show an elevation detail at the point chosen and a cross
section detail where a roof beam frames into the top chord.

Design column A4 supporting the truss (top lift only: roof to fifth floor). Hint: The truss reaction is your column load.

Design Column D2 from the basement slab to the first floor (bottom most lift only). Please note that in this load take- down,
column D2 has no roof load. Hint: Use tributary area

Determine the size of the footing at D2 (foot print size only).

Loads Roof Floors Lobby

Assume:
PSF
Dead All wide flange sections are ASTM A992 ……….. Fy=50 ksi Fu=65 ksi
Load All other shapes & plates are A 36 Fy=36 ksi Fu=58ksi
CDL
All columns are W12s
Slab 43 43 43
Steel 10 10 10 Fp= 6 TSF = 12 KSF Allowable Soil Bearing Pressure

SDL
Partitions 10
Finishes 5 5 5
MEP 5 5 5

Live load 40 50 100

Submit all work, including calculations, plans, sections & details on 8 ½” x 11” paper. Clearly state and check
assumptions. Work is to be neat and legible.

Submission must be bound together, with a cover page and your name on each page. Remember neatness
counts.
Some notes:

1. Footing D2 is to be sized for service loads (Fp is quoted for service loads).

2, Column D2 is sized for ultimate loads.

3. Truss:

- for the top (compression) chord, assume it's only braced at the panel points (assuming conservatively it might not be
effectively laterally braced by the slab and only by the incoming beams)

- include an allowance for the self-weight of the truss in your design by assuming that all members weigh 50 p/ft
(including connections), then calculate the total weight based on the total length of all members and distribute that load
equally as point loads at top chord panel points

4. Column A4 - assume an unbraced length of 12 ft, i.e. assume the column is braced out of the plane of the truss
(along grid A) at the level of the bottom chord of the truss.

5. For the truss connection detail and the roof beam to roof girder connection that is called for in the instructions above,
you don't need to do any connection design calculations but you should do some research to find out what such a
connection would look like and then draw that up in the requested details.

GRID SPACING
Each student will be given a different / unique grid spacing (i.e. combination of X and Y dimensions). Report the grid
spacing you have been given and are using at the start of your project.
 X X X X X

Y
 X X X X X

Y S1

Y
 X X X X X

Y S1

Y
 X X X X X

Y BM. 7

BM. 8
Y

BM. 6

TRUSS
Y

Y
 X X X X X

Y
 13'- 6"
161.86
Y

X
Y

X
Y

X
Y

X
Y