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CIVL3206: Steel Structures 1, Semester 2, 2009

Course Coordinator: Tim Wilkinson
Email: T.Wilkinson@usyd.edu.au

General Information | Assignments | Tutorials | Lab Sessions | Exams & Quizzes | Useful Links

Welcome to Steel Structures 1 for Semester 2 2009. This website is modified during the semester with the links below for tutorials and assignments becoming active after they are distributed in class.

The first lecture will be held on Tuesday 28 July in the Civil Engineering Drawing Office.

There have already been some questions concerning your lab sessions. Your timetables will list a lab session on either Wednesday or Thursday afternoons 2 - 4 pm. Firstly note that there are only two sessions to attend (not every week). More information will be circulated once the semester begins.

The lecture notes for the course will be available from the University Printing Service soon (not the Coop Bookshop). You will also need the Australian Standard AS 4100 - but most of you should have purchased the student standards handbook, HB2.2, last year for Structural Concepts - this is OK. You should also have the AISC book "Economical Structural Steelwork" distributed last year in Introduction to Structural Concepts and Design.

Structural Analysis is an elective for you this term. Some of may not have enrolled in it. There will be some slight disadvantage for those students - but since the assignments that involve using computer structural analysis programs are group assignments - you can team up with someone who is doing analysis. I will suggest (in my completely unbiased structural engineering way) that structural analysis is the most important of the 4 electives offered to you this semester, so if you are still deciding on your 3rd year electives, I would strongly recommend that you pick analysis.

There are student versions of the analysis programs Microstran available for you to use at home - visit http://www.civil.usyd.edu.au/current/undergraduate/software.shtml

You have all done Structural Mechanics, and I expect that you are competent in drawing simple BMDs and SFDs for statically determinant structures. I would also suggest that it would be a good idea to revise the chapter on bending from structural mechanics - so that you can work out stress and strain, and understand the terms such as I, Z, J and r.

I hope that you enjoy this unit of study and you find it interesting, challenging and informative, and that this year is successful both academically and in any other endeavours that you undertake.

General Information

  • Course Information Sheet - Download PDF
  • Weekly email bulletins: Each week, enrolled students will receive an email update summarising the content of the week, and information on upcoming content and assignments.  It will contain suggestions on tutorial questions, assignments and quizzes.  Use this as an important part of your study program.  Archived messages are kept on the WebCT site.
  • Want to ask a question? Students should ask all general and technical questions on the WebCT bulletin board. Other students are encouraged to answer as well. The lecturer will try to answer any questions each day. Students should only email the lecturer directly for questions of a personal nature.

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Past Exams & Some Answers

Quiz 1 (Sample quiz 1 from a previous year); Quiz 1 (Sample quiz 2 from a previous year)

2009 Quiz 1: Solution | Feedback

2009 Quiz 2: Solution | Feedback

2008 Exam (Download PDF version of 2008 Exam)

2007 Exam (Download PDF version of 2007 Exam)
1)b) 88.9 x 2.6 CHS, fNt = 202 kN
2)b) Lex = 7.655 m, fNcx = 915 kN
3)b)ii) fMsx = 114 kNm
4)b) fMrx = 164 (or 193) kNm, fMix = 160 kNm, fMox = 98 kNm.
5)b)ii) Connection design capacity = 463 kN (bolt shear).

2006 Exam (Download PDF version of 2006 Exam)

2005 Exam (Download PDF version of 2005 Exam 70 kB)
1)b) N* = 635 kN, 125BT18, fNt = 678 kN
2)b) L_max = 1.023 m, fMsx = 305 kNm, w = 24.4 kN/m
3) kf = 0.865, fNs = 1810 kN
4)b)ii) In-plane: sway, x-axis buckling, lex = 9500 mm, ii) fMix = 160 kN.m,
5)b)ii) Connection design capacity = 463 kN (bolt shear).

2004 Exam (Download PDF version of 2004 Exam 70 kB)

2003 Exam (Download PDF version of 2003 Exam 309 kB)
1)b) 60.3 x 2.9 CHS, fNt = 146.2 kN
2)b)i) Solve for reactions first.  SFD is straight line from w*L / 2 to -w*L / 2.  BMD is parabola with max moment at midspan of w*L2 / 8.  Major-axis bending. (Bottom in tension), ii) Top flange is critical.  (Compression flange). Refer to Clause 5.5. iii) Le = 9800 mm. Using 5.6.1.1(a)(ii) (Table 5.6.1) to obtain am: fMbx = 83.1 kN.m, max w*=13.6 kN/m. , Using 5.6.1.1(a)(iii) to obtain am: fMbx = 85.8 kN.m, max w*=14.0 kN/m.
3) kf = 0.836, fNs = 1632 kN, fNc = 736 kN
4)b)i) In-plane: sway, x-axis buckling, lex = 9500 mm, ii) fMix = 132.5 kN.m,
5)b) Max N*tf = 150.6 kN, c)ii) Connection design capacity = 556 kN (bolt shear).

2002 Exam (Download PDF version of 2002 Exam 276 kB)
1)b)ii) fNt = 510 kN
2)b)ii) fMsx = 140 kN.m<, iii) lmax = 915 mm, max w* = 35.0 kN/m
3)b) N-S, y-axis, E-W, x-axis; N-S Ley = 4.96 m; fNcy = 1044 kN
4)b) fMbx = 182 kNm, fNcy = 1049 kN, fMox = 138 kNm. 
5)b) Max N*tf = 159 kN, c)ii) Connection design capacity = 556 kN (bolt shear).

2001 Exam (Download PDF version of 2001 Exam 166 kB)
1)b) fNt = 706 kN
2)b) Lmax = 0.91 m (some might give Lmax = 1.22 m), fMsx = 140 kNm, fVv = 283 kN (some might answer 258 kN), fVvm = 283 kN (some might answer 258 kN), 
3)b) E-W, C1 is braced, y-axis, Ley = 3.0 m; N-S, C1 is sway, x-axis, Lex = 7.2 m; Lex = 3 m, fNcx = 2782 kN, fNcy = 2993 kN
4)b) 2 segments in rafter - segment closest to apex, Ley = 4.17 m, Leb = 5.84 m, fMbx = 515 kNm, fNcy = 2424 kN, fMox = 507 kNm. 
5)b) Bolt shear 714 kN

2000 Exam (Download PDF version of 2000 Exam 202 kB)
1)b) fNt = 706 kN
2)b) Le = 9.8 m, fMbx = 358 kNm
3)b) Ley = 1.5 m, Lex = 3 m, fNc = 195 kN
4)b) Lex = 9.5 m, fMrx = 148 kNm, fMix = 132 kNm (some may calculate fMix = 145 kNm)
5)b) fvw = 0.977 kN/mm, N*max = 853 kN

1999 Exam (Download PDF version of 1999 Exam 244 kB)
1)a) fNt = 4486 kN, b) fNt = 5065 kN
2) fNc = 2770 kN
3)b) fVv = 1195 kN, fMsx = 1220 kNm, fVvm = 1078 kN
4) fMrx = 918 kNm, fMox = 507 kNm,
5)b) fVf = 44.6 kN, fNtf = 78.4 kN, c) fvw = 0.977 kN/mm, N*max = 977 kN

1998 Exam Download PDF version of 1998 Exam 146 kB