Workgroup Contents
Lecture 18.2 : Structural Behaviour and Design
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1. INTRODUCTION
2. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
2.1 General
2.2 Choice of Material Grade
2.3 Availability of Structural Forms
3. MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR
3.1 Stress-Strain Relationships
3.1.1 Basic stress-strain behaviour
3.1.2 Factors affecting stress-strain behaviour
3.2 Cold Working
3.3 Effects of Temperature
3.4 Other Properties
4. STRUCTURAL ELEMENT BEHAVIOUR AND DESIGN
4.1 General
4.1.1 Elastic or plastic design
4.1.2 Effect of material non-linearity
4.2 Classification and Local Buckling
4.2.1 Classification
4.2.2 Local buckling
4.3 Column Design
4.4 Beam Design
5. CONNECTIONS
5.1 General Aspects
5.2 Bolted Connections
5.3 Welded Connections
6. CONCLUDING SUMMARY
7. REFERENCES
8. ADDITIONAL READING