Australian Structural Engineering Course: Steel & RCC Design

Explore cold-formed purlins and girds in Australian PEMB systems, including material properties, galvanization, C and Z sections, bridging, bolted joints, lap lengths, and design loads.

Explore limit state design of purlins and girts, using design capacity tables and member moment capacities to verify loads per is 4600:2005 guidelines, including bridging, cantilevers, bolts, and bracing.

Learn to design c-purlins in Ex-Facta software to meet Australian standards, focusing on strength and serviceability, including setup, spans, bridging, lapping, load combinations, deflection, and bolt connections.

Define load cases and load patterns using the interactive database, align dead, live, and earthquake loads, and efficiently import export load combinations across models to save time.

Apply dead loads, piping loads, live loads, and seismic and wind loads to the pipe rack; account for piping weight, bolted connections, and bracing to resist lateral forces.

Explore wind load application on open steel structures in the y direction, assigning section-wise udl, applying shielding effects, and evaluating serviceability and ultimate cases across portal frames.

Design a base plate for axial load and bending moment per AS4100:2020 by using strength envelopes to identify governing reactions, then size bolts, base plate, and pedestal in Ram Connection.

Design RCC pedestals per AS3600:2018 for a 1000×800 mm base, compute axial and bending demands, reinforcement about 80 cm2, with cracking modifiers and option to model in Etabs or Tekla.

Design RCC foundations for axial load and bending moment using concrete pads, analyze joint reactions, bearing pressure, and stability against sliding and overturning, and verify reinforcement for safe footing.

design moment connections for steel moment resistant frames, detailing beam-to-column flange and web connections with end plates, gusset plates, and bracing to transfer axial, shear, and bending moments.

Explore practical steel design in Etabs by modeling beam, column, and bracing members, defining materials, sections, loads, and releases to analyze forces and improve drift control.

Explore bending design for laterally supported structural steel beams and girders, focusing on flexural behavior, bending moment capacity, and restraint effects under full restraint conditions.

Demonstrates ETABS-based design of a laterally unsupported steel beam, detailing modeling, load inputs, and bracing scenarios to compare capacities with fully supported and partially braced spans.

Learn to apply limit state design for steel bolts per 4100, evaluating tension, shear, bearing capacity, with core area and shank area distinctions and interaction checks.

Explains Australian standard anchor design using Hilti software, comparing adhesive and mechanical anchors, material options, installation methods, and how to evaluate seismic, fatigue, and failure modes for concrete applications.

Explain how Australian structural design uses ultimate and serviceability limit states, determines NCC-based importance levels, and applies factored wind and earthquake load combinations (with snow as applicable).

Discusses serviceability limit state, fire action combination, and robustness with long-term and short-term imposed actions, covering RCC, steel, timber fire protection and code criteria.

Explore AS1170.2:2021 wind design for Australia and New Zealand, including climate change multiplier, wind borne debris, glazing testing, revised zoning, and static versus dynamic load considerations.

Compute the shielding parameter S to obtain the shielding multiplier Ms. Follow ESL 170/AS1170.2 rules; shielding is valid for structures up to 25 m and trees do not provide shielding.