Live support chatFailure Modes in Steel Members
Credit: 3 PDH
Subject Matter Expert: Mahmoud Ahmed, P.E., M.Sc., M.ASCE, GMICE
In Failure Modes in Steel Members, you'll learn ...
- The practical application of each code check specified by AISC 360
- Various straining actions, including tension, compression, shear, and flexure
- How yielding, buckling, and fracture failures manifest in real-life structures
Overview
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Credit: 3 PDH
Length: 53 pages
Understanding the potential failure modes in steel structures is crucial for any structural engineer. While many engineers perform code checks diligently, they often do so without visualizing the actual failure shapes for each check. This course bridges that gap by illustrating how each code check translates into real-world scenarios, helping you move beyond just equations to truly grasp the behavior of steel members under load.
A deep understanding of failure shapes, or failure modes, offers significant advantages. Primarily, it empowers you to achieve both safe and economical designs by enabling you to anticipate and prevent potential issues. Furthermore, this knowledge is invaluable for diagnosing failure modes in actual structural collapses, providing critical insights for forensic analysis and future design improvements.
This course dives into each code check specified by AISC 360, focusing on the practical application rather than intricate equations. You'll gain a clear understanding of how yielding, buckling, and fracture failures manifest in real-life structures due to various straining actions like tension, compression, shear, and flexure. This will greatly assist you in preparing case studies and comprehensive structural safety reports.
Specifically, we'll cover a comprehensive range of failure modes, including but not limited to: tensile, compressive, flexural, and shear yielding; various local and global buckling phenomena such as flexural-buckling, torsional-buckling, and web buckling; and critical rupture failures like tensile rupture, shear rupture, block shear rupture, and even bolt and weld rupture. By the end of this course, you'll have a robust understanding of how these mechanisms dictate the ultimate strength and safety of steel structures.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe tensile yielding.
- Explain compressive yielding.
- Identify local flange yielding.
- Describe flexural yielding.
- Explain flexural flange local yielding.
- Identify shear yielding.
- Describe pure-shear torsional yielding.
- Explain warping-shear torsional yielding.
- Identify warping tensile/compression torsional yielding.
- Describe web local yielding.
- Explain web panel zone shear yielding.
- Identify web local bending (oil canning effect).
- Describe compressive flexural buckling.
- Explain compressive torsional buckling.
- Identify compressive flexural-torsional buckling.
- Describe compressive local buckling.
- Explain compressive local yielding.
- Identify flexural local buckling.
- Describe flexural lateral-torsional buckling.
- Explain shear buckling.
- Identify warping compression torsional buckling.
- Describe web local crippling.
- Explain web local buckling.
- Identify web side-sway buckling.
- Describe web compression buckling.
- Explain tensile rupture.
- Identify shear rupture.
- Describe block shear rupture.
- Explain flexure rupture.
- Identify bolt rupture.
- Describe weld rupture.
- Explain bearing and tearout rupture.
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 15 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 3 PDH
Length: 53 pages
