BVM Engineering College, V. V.

Nagar (An Autonomous Institution)

3SE03: Design of Steel Structures
5th SEM, Third year Civil Engineering- AY 2022-23

Assignment 7: Members subjected to Combined Forces

1. A non – sway intermediate column in a building frame with flexible joints is 6.2 m high
and it is ISHB400@882 N/m steel section. One end of the column is fixed and other is
pinned. Check the adequacy of the section when the column is subjected to following
loading:

 The factored load on column: 1250kN.

 The factored Moment about major axis: 50 kN.m
 The factored Moment about minor axis: 15 kN.m.
 Take fy= 250 MPa, fu= 410 MPa, E= 2 x 105 N/mm2, G= 0.80 x 105 N/mm2

2. A non – sway intermediate column in a building frame with flexible joints is 4.0 m high
and it is ISHB400@882 N/m steel section. Check the adequacy of the section when the
column is subjected to following load:

 Assume effective length of the column as 3.4 m along both the axes.
 Factored axial load = 1000 kN
 Factored moments:
Mz My
Bottom + 20.0 kN –m - 10.0 kN - m
Top + 12.0 kN – m + 7.5 kN - m

 Take fy= 250 MPa, fu= 410 MPa, E= 2 x 105 N/mm2, G= 0.80 x 105 N/mm2