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Prokon And Case Of The Flying Footings
by yours truly Anyone here who uses Prokon’s column base design module? The one that…
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LIMIT STATE DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
achieving the design objectives, the design shall be based on characteristic values for material strengths…
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LIMIT STATE DESIGN: BASIS FOR DESIGN
The current revision of the code of practice, IS 800:2000, recommends limit state method for…
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STEEL DESIGN: TYPES OF ELEMENTS
IS 800:2007 classifies elements in to three types, as per Cl. 3.7.3., as follows. 1.…
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CLASSIFICATION OF CROSS-SECTIONS
Plate elements of a cross-section may buckle locally due to compressive stresses. The local buckling…
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PROPERTIES OF STRUCTURAL STEEL
1. Physical properties Physical properties of structural steel, as detailed by cl.2.2.4.1 of IS 800:2007,…
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Collapse Mechanism
So for our previous beam, we know that we require two hinges for collapse (one…
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Shape Factor
Thus the ratio of elastic to plastic moment capacity is: This ratio is termed the shape…
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Statically indeterminate axial problems
In these analyses we used superposition often, knowing that for a linearly elastic structure it…
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Plastic Analysis of Steel Structures
Introduction to Plastic Analysis: Analysis of stress, deflection and distortion determinations within the limit of…