After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• • Prevent serviceability failures that affect productivity
  • Calculate design loads and combine them with anticipated loads
  • Determine dynamic loading including crane, equipment, and seismic factors
  • Provide durable, flat, low-maintenance concrete floors on grade
  • Select economical structural systems that will provide longevity and scalability

• • Structural designers
  • Owners & managers
  • Facility owners
  • Architectural engineers
  • Plant engineers
  • Building manufacturers
  • Contractors
  • Construction procurement personnel from oil companies and refineries, mining, chemicals processing, aluminum, pulp & paper

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions

Course Outline:

• • Structural Systems & Components
  • Walls & Elevated Floors
  • Design of Roof Framing
  • Composite Floors with Concrete Deck Slab
  • Composite Open Web Steel Joists & Trusses
  • Stub-girder Floor Construction
  • Steel & Composite Beams
  • Structural Design for Walking
  • Vibration Problems & Remedial Measures
  • Crane Runways
  • Design of Mill Buildings & Combined Columns

Welcome, Introduction, Workshop Preview, Learning Outcomes, and Assessment Method

Introduction

• • What are industrial, general, and specialty manufacturing facilities
  • How are they different from other types of structures such as warehouses and commercial, institutional, and municipal structures
  • Most commonly used structural systems: gable frames, joists and joist girders, laced columns and trusses, stepped columns, conventional framing, and pre-engineered structural systems
  • Design loads, governing codes, and minimum requirements
  • Load combinations

Structural Systems and Components

• • Structural systems
  • Systems with cranes: heavy industrial facilities
  • Systems without cranes: light industrial/manufacturing facilities

Walls

• • Load bearing walls: dead and live loads, wind, and seismic loads
  • Non-load bearing walls: interior and exterior walls
  • Masonry walls: partition walls and fire walls
  • Metal walls: design of girts, sag rods, and wind posts
  • Structural insulated foam-timber panels (SIPs) as bearing wall and cladding
  • Design of structural steel shear wall for lateral load resisting systems
  • Design examples

Design of Roof Framing with Cantilever (Gerber) Girders and Open Web Steel Joists

• • Roof framing layout
  • Design considerations for the open web steel joists
  • Design considerations for the Gerber girder system
  • Transfer of loads to foundation trough columns and bracing system
  • Structural stability considerations for columns
  • Design example

Elevated Floors

• • Types of floors used in industrial facilities
  • Design of elevated floors for forklift truck traffic
  • Design example

Composite Floors with Concrete Deck Slab on Steel Beams or Girders

• • Deck slab systems in steel framed buildings
  • Header shear stud for composite floor member design
  • Loading considerations for shored and unshored composite floor system
  • Effective slab width in composite beams
  • Ultimate flexural capacity of composite beams at positive and negative moment regions

Composite Open Web Steel Joists and Trusses

• • Floor layout
  • Strength design consideration
  • Serviceability design considerations
  • Typical connection details
  • Composite truss member trial section tables
  • Floor design example

Stub-girder Floor Construction

• • Stub and beam layout
  • Structural modelling of stub-girder for preliminary manual analysis
  • Structural modelling of stub-girder for computer analysis
  • Stub-girder member flexural strength
  • Stud shear connection design
  • Shear capacity of stubs and stub stiffener details
  • Design of weldments at stub-to-girder interface
  • Stub-girder deflection check
  • Shoring check for stub-girders
  • Design example

Steel and Composite Beams with Web Openings

• • Structural behaviour of reinforced versus un-reinforced web opening
  • Overview of the design procedure
  • Moment-shear interaction
  • Equations for maximum moment capacity as well as shear capacity
  • Guidelines for proportioning and detailing beams with web openings
  • Deflection design approach for beams with web openings
  • Design example

Steel Castellated (open-web expanded) Beams

• • Configuration of castellated beam: fabrication
  • Design considerations and procedure for moment, shear, and deflection
  • Design example

Introduction to Floor Vibration Due to Human Activities

• • Basic vibration terminology
  • Floor vibration principles
  • Acceptance criteria for human comfort
  • Recommended criteria for structural design for walking and rhythmic excitation
  • Natural frequencies of steel framed floor systems
  • Deflection due to flexure, shear in beams and trusses, continuity effects
  • Special considerations for open web steel joists and joist girders

Structural Design for Walking Excitation

• • Recommended design criteria and estimation of the design parameters
  • Application of the design criteria
  • Design example for a foot bridge, typical interior and exterior bay in a commercial building and mezzanines level

Structural Design for Rhythmic Excitation

• • Recommended design criteria and estimation of the design parameters
  • Application of the design criteria
  • Design example for a typical interior and exterior bay in a commercial building and mezzanines level

Structural Design for Sensitive Equipment

• • Recommended design criteria and estimation of the design parameters
  • Application of the design criteria
  • Design example for a typical interior and exterior bay in a commercial building

Evaluation of Vibration Problems and Remedial Measures

• • Evaluation of existing floor vibration
  • Remedial measures
  • Protection of sensitive equipment
  • Cases studies

Crane Runways

• • Overview of cranes and usage
  • Forces imparted by cranes
  • Load combinations involving cranes
  • Types of crane runway systems, overhead, underhung, yard cranes, gantry cranes, and jibs
  • Design of EOT crane runways
  • Mono-symmetric versus symmetric crane girder in flexural strength
  • Design example

Design of Mill Buildings and Combined Columns

• • Design considerations
  • K – factors and end restraints
  • Column design: recommended procedure
  • Bracing requirements
  • Base fixity, rotational restraints, and support settlement
  • Lateral drift and stiffness considerations
  • Design of fixed column bases
  • Design examples

Questions and Answers, Feedback on Achievement of Learning Outcomes

• • Partial- and full-shear interaction
  • Ultimate shear design
  • Check for deflection in partial- and full-shear interaction; deflection due to concrete shrinkage
  • Web opening in composite beams
  • Design tables for composite beams with full-depth deck slab as well as with deck slab over permanent steel deck panels
  • Design examples

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration

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