Design of Steel and Timber Structure 2023/24 A.Y.

ASTU - SoCEA
Civil Engineering Department
Design of Steel and Timber Structures – Assignment # I
Submission date: Thursday, April 4, 2024.

1. Select the lightest double angles section placed back-to-back for a tension member
supporting a service design axial tension load of 400 kN. The member is to be connected
at the end to a 12mm thick gusset plate between back of the angles by one row of 22mm
diameter bolts in a pattern as shown below. The length of member is 3.2m. Assume the
member as main tension member with limiting slenderness ratio of l r  240 where
r  I A . Angle sections are made of S355 steel.
Select among a) Equal leg angles, and b) Unequal leg angles (for unequal leg angles,
connection is made through longer leg of the angles)

t gusset  12 mm
plate

T  400 kN

2. Design a Tee shape cut from universal beam connected from the flange using three bolts in
two lines as shown in the following figure loaded with an axial factored tensile force 300
KN using steel grade S275 (neglect the eccentricity)

3. The tension member shown in the following figure universal beam 457 × 152 × 82 of steel
grade S355 connected from the web using bolts 𝑑𝑜 = 16 𝑚𝑚 compute 𝑨𝒏𝒆𝒕.

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4. A tension member made of an angle L160x100x12mm is connected at end by two rows of

16mm diameter bolts in the 160mm leg and one row of 16mm diameter bolts in the
100mm leg as shown below. Assume bolt holes are made by drilling.
2 1

100 mm
60 mm

108 mm
60 mm T T 248 mm
160 mm
70 mm 70 mm

2 s s? s s 1

a) Determine the pitch distance between the adjacent bolts ‘s’ for the same net-area of an
angle section.
b) Determine the net area of an angle section if the pitch distance between the adjacent
bolts ‘s’ is 40mm.
5. Select the lightest UC-section that can carry a service design axial compression of 700kN
for compression member of length 5m. The member may be assumed pinned at top and
bottom. In addition, it has weak direction support at mid height. The column (compression
member) is part of a braced building structure. UC-sections are made of S235 steel.

6. It is desired to design a column for compression member to support a service design axial
compression load of 6490kN using S235 steel with effective length of 3.65m and they are
the same in both directions. A W360x202 is on hand with a good supply of 25mm thick
plates. Design cover-plates to be connected to the flanges of W-section to enable the
column to support the required load.

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For the given design loading, analyze and design the truss members of the following plane truss
as per CES-152. UKA-equal double angle sections are to be provided with steel grade S355.
Assume the members are connected using bolted connection as shown in fig. (b).

(a)

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