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Avoid These Common Structural Design Mistakes!
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Avoid These Common Structural Design Mistakes!

Content with Actual Cases
Created byYazan Alatoum
Last updated 5/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Practical Case Study
  • Accurate Modelling and Analysis of Steel Structures
  • Solution to most common Engineering mistakes
  • Continuous Learning and Development

Course content

1 section7 lectures1h 29m total length
  • Effect of Support displacement4:49
  • ETABS Section Designer10:36
  • Impact of Meshing on results6:44
  • Curved Members16:07
  • Truss Modeling with slab7:51
  • Cumulative Deflection27:27
  • Considering Connection Stiffness15:48

Requirements

  • Basic Knowledge in ETABS and IDEA STATICA
  • Basic Knowledge in Steel Structures Design
  • Engineering student or Professional practicing Engineer

Description

Every day, engineers lose time, money, and credibility due to avoidable design mistakes that often slip through, simply because no one stopped to double-check a few essential items.

In this free course, you’ll learn how to address these mistakes more clearly, prevent them with simple additional checks, and apply practical corrections in your daily workflow.


This is not just another theory-based course — it’s a field-tested, example-driven training designed to help you identify, understand, and fix mistakes in steel structure design and analysis with more confidence.

Each section presents real-life examples of what went wrong in actual projects, why these issues happened in the first place, and the smart, structured way to fix them effectively. You’ll come away with a clear, organized approach to improving your analysis accuracy and ensuring your steel designs are both safe and economical without unnecessary complication.


If you’ve ever opened your analysis results and thought, “That can’t be right,” this course will guide you to think like an experienced checker, applying validation techniques and engineering judgment to ensure your design outputs truly reflect the structure’s behaviour.


By the end, you’ll not only improve your accuracy but also enhance your professional credibility and deliver safer, more economical steel designs that stand up to real-world conditions.

If your goal is to design efficiently, verify confidently, and avoid rework, this course serves as a practical and straightforward guide to achieving that.

Who this course is for:

  • Structural Engineering Students or Professionals
  • Passionate Learners