6CE3             STEEL STRUCTURES–II                                                                   L  3

UNIT: 1

Design of gantry girder, Design of roof trusses

UNIT: 2

Design of plate girder

: design of section, connections for flange plate to flange angles & flange

angles to web, web and flange splicing. Vertical, Horizontal, Intermediate and Bearing stiffeners.

Curtailment of plates.

UNIT: 3

Bridges

: Standard loading for railway bridges, design of Deck type plate-girder bridges, design

of bracings and frames. Application of ILD to the design of bridges, design of through type truss

bridges, design of members and joints, design of stringers, cross girder, lateral, sway and portal

bracings.

UNIT: 4

Water tanks, circular tanks with segmental bottoms, rectangular tanks, pressed steel tanks, design

of staging.

NOTE: Only four units are sufficient as the questions are long.