Contents

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  Unit 1. Design of gantry girder. Design of roof trusses including wind loading and purlin design, Introduction to Pre Engineered Buildings and tubular sections and their applications.

   

  Unit 2. Design of plate girder: Design of welded and bolted sections. Connections for flange plate to flange angles and flange angles to web, etc. Design of welded connections. Web and flange splicing. Horizontal, Intermediate and Bearing stiffeners. Curtailment of plates. Shear strength determination by post critical and tension field action methods. End panel design options and procedure as per IS 800.

   

  Unit 3. Bridges: Types of bridges, Loadings, Standard loading for railway bridges, Design of Deck type plate-girder bridges, design of its bracings and frames.

   

  Unit 4. Design aspects of foot over bridges. Design of through type truss girder bridges including stringer design, cross girder design, main truss members, portal and sway bracings etc.

   

  Unit 5. Water tanks, circular tanks with segmental bottoms, rectangular tanks, pressed steel tanks, design of staging.