Structural Steel Design Training Course

Introduction

Steel is the most used construction material in the USA for industrial buildings, high-rise towers, bridges, and other structures. It competes with reinforced concrete in the world because of its many favorable characteristics including high strength, high stiffness, ductility and toughness, speed of erection, competitive cost, etc. Its use in the Middle East region has been mostly confined to industrial plants, offshore structures, and warehouses. The lower construction time and it can be used as a temporary structure to make it competitive than the concrete structure. The design of steel structures has widely been based on the Allowable Stress Design based on the AISC, BS, and EC3 will be discussed. Many designers and fabricators still use old allowable stress techniques. The course will present ASD and LRFD approach. The petroleum industry is interesting in modify the structure in the onshore facilities to carry more load or add more machines so the integrity management of change must be considered and important. The composite section design and FRP will be presented in the course. The pushover analysis will be discussed to define the structure probability of failure for industrial structure. All examples will be related to oil and gas projects in conjunction with the specification for most oil and gas companies worldwide.

This training course will feature:

It provides case studies on the petroleum industry

• The codes and standard with technical practice in this field
• The new trend of the integrity management system will be presented
• The design of steel structure under reciprocating and centrifugal machines
• The capability to review The engineering and pitfalls in construction
• The pushover structure analysis technique 

Objectives

The attendees will be familiar with the steel structure design overview:

• The loads apply on The structure in oil and gas plants and petrochemical
• The modern technique on The risk based inspection for maintenance plan
• familiar with the pipe rack design or review the design
• design of the steel structure under machines
• Using composite section in strengthen and repair

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals Civil engineers who are interesting in learning about steel design may attend the course.

• Design structural engineers
• Supervision engineer
• Planners
• Steel fabricator
• Construction engineers

Course Outline

Day 1: Introduction

Competency Description: As an engineer you need to know the main element of steel structure design.

Key Behaviours:

• Understand the steps of design for steel structure
• Understand the different steel structure system
• Understand the codes and standards

Topics to be covered:

• Introduction
• Pre-Assessment
• The case for steel used in construction.
• Structure system
• The comparison between different structure system
• Define the appraise, select and define step in steel structure projects
• Available steel grades and sections.
• Codes of practice for design, evolution from allowable stress to LRFD and limit state design.
• The loads effect on the industrial structures
• Preparing SOR and BOD
• Codes and standards

Day 2: Steel Member Design

Competency Description: As an engineer, you need to know the design of the main element of the steel structure.

Key Behaviours:

• Understand the behaviour of steel members
• Understand the steel structure system
• Understand the rule of thumb steel section design

Topics to be covered:

• Selection of structural systems
• Rigidly connected frames
• Plane trusses
• Space trusses
• Design of tension members
• Design of compression members.
• Design of Beams
• Design of Beam-Columns

Day 3: Connection Design

Competency Description: As a structural engineer you need to know the ways of defining the loads on the steel structure in industrial structures and to know the connection design.

Key Behaviours:

• Understand the load's calculation for pipe rack
• Understand the types of connection
• Understand the overview of the differences between the NDE methods

Topics to be covered:

• Applied load on the Pipe rack
• Design of the crane track girder
• Design of steel deck under the vibrating machine
• Bolted connections design
• Example of the bolted connection
• Welded connections design
• Example of the bolted connection

Day 4: Steel Construction and Maintenance

Competency Description: As a structural engineer you need to know the ways of soil investigation and Architectural work inspection.

Key Behaviours:

• Understand the construction steps
• Understand the ways of QC for steel structure
• Understand the design of anchor bolts
• Using FRP in hot climates

Topics to be covered:

• Fabrication and erection of steel connection
• New methods for connecting steel to Concrete.
• Wind bracing design
• Anchor bolt design
• Dynamic analysis calculation for steel skid
• Using FRP in Steel structure
• Fabrication and erection of FRP

Day 5: Architectural Work Inspection Guidelines

Competency Description: As an engineer, you need to know the composite section design and the relation between sustainable design and integrity management system.

Key Behaviours:

• Understand the design of the composite section
• Understand the IMS for steel structure
• Understand the overview of the sustainable structure

Topics to be covered:

• Design of composite beams.
• Design of composite columns
• Design of composite slabs
• Preparation of fabrication and erection shop-drawings
• Specifying structural steel
• Maintenance plan by risk-based inspection technique