Mechanical Construction Project - Annual

Code:

EM515

Acronym:

PCM

Instance: 2003/2004 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Applied Mechanics Section
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LEM	13	Plano de Estudos EM Oficial a partir de 2000	5	6	12	-
		Plano para Bachareis EM a partir 2000	2	6	12	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To give the students an apropriate level of knowledge in the area of the design of steel structures involving both the analysis of structures and the know-how to materialize a project.

Program

1 - Type of structures and stability requirements. Analysis of truss systems, trussed frames and portal frames. Bracing requirements in industrial and office buildings.
2 - Structural Design Fundamentals. Allowable Stress Design and Limit State Design. Strength and Serviceability Limit States. Definition of structural loads, factored loads and their combinations according to design standards. Dead loads, imposed loads, wind loads, snow loads and seismic loads .
3 - Design of sections – Section classification. Design of tension members. Design of compression menbers. Buckling length in portal frames. Beam design stability. Design of built-up I sections (girders). Lateral torsional buckling verification. Interaction bending and compression.
4 – Computer Aidede Design of structures.. Modeling the structure and loads. Analysis of member forces and design. Analysis and design of bracing systems.
5 - Design of bolted and welded connections. Beam to colum connections, beam to beam conections. Truss noed design. Column base design.

Main Bibliography

1 - CHARPANTES MÉTALLIQUES, Conception et dimensionnement des halles et batiments. VOL 11, Traité de Génie Civil, de l’Ecole Polytechniique Fédérale de Lausanne.
2 – CONSTRUCTION MÉTALLIQUE, Notions fondamentales et méthodes de dimensionnement , VOL 10, Traité de Génie Civil, de l’Ecole Polytechniique Fédérale de Lausanne.
3 – António Reis e Dinar Camotin, ESTABILIDADE ESTRUTURAL, Mc Graw Hill Portugal.
4- Alan Hayward, Frank Weare, STEEL DETAILLER´S MANUAL, Blackwell Science, Oxford.
5 – R. Arguelles Alvarez, R. Arguelles Bustillo F. Arriaga Martitegui, J.R. Atienza Reales, ESTRUTURAS DE ACERO, Cálculo, Norma basica e Eurocodigo, BELLISCO, Madrid.
6 – Jean Morel, “Calcul des structures métalliques selon lÉurocode 3”, EYROLLES.
7 – S.P. Timoshenko, D.H. young, THEORY of STRUCTURES, McGRAW-HILL.
8 – A. GHALI, A.M. NEVILLE, Y.K. CHEUNG, STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS, CHAPMAN & HALL, LONDON.

Complementary Bibliography

Normas:
- REAPE – Regulamento de Estruras em Aço Para Edifícios
- RSA – Regulamento de Segurança e Acções
- Eurocódigo 3 (EC3) – Projecto de Estruturas Metálicas Parte 1-1 : Regras gerais e regras para edifícios , ENV 1993-1 (1992)
- Welded Steel Tanks for Oil Storage, API Standard 650

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course has two components: the students will attend formal classes in the desing of streel structures, according to point 2b) Contents and, will elaborate a projecct of a steel structure, involving both analysis, design and of the overall structure and components acording to Building Codes.

Software

Depending on the complexity of the problem to solve one of the following softwares could be used, MULTIFRAME 4D - ANSYS or ABAQUS.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam