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.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Tensile yielding
- Compressive yielding
- Local flange yielding
- Flexural yielding
- Flexural flange local yielding
- Shear yielding
- Torsional-pure shear yielding
- Torsional-warping shear yielding
- Torsional-warping tensile/compression yielding
- Web local yielding
- Web panel zone shear yielding
- Web local bending (Oil Canning effect)
- Compressive flexural-buckling
- Compressive torsional-buckling
- Compressive flexural-torsional-buckling
- Compressive local buckling
- Compressive local yielding
- Flexural local buckling
- Flexural lateral torsional buckling
- Shear buckling
- Torsional-warping compression buckling
- Web local crippling
- Web local buckling
- Web side-sway buckling
- Web compression buckling
- Tensile rupture
- Shear rupture
- Block shear rupture
- Flexure rupture
- Bolt rupture
- Weld rupture
- 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
