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PurdueX: Steel Beam and Plate Girder Design

Learn fundamental concepts and applications of welded built-up steel plate girders including proportioning, flexural and shear strength, and local and global stability.

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PurdueX: Steel Beam and Plate Girder Design

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    About PurdueX: Steel Beam and Plate Girder Design

    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.

    What You Will Learn?

    • Understand basic buckling theory including beam and plate buckling behavior..
    • Proportion plate girders appropriately for strength and stability requirements..
    • Evaluate the flexural capacity of I-shaped plate girders regardless of component slenderness..
    • 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 shear capacity of an I-shaped plate girder and design transverse stiffeners as appropriate..