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How to start a steel design project?

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Question added by Yazan Ahmad , programmer , wysada
Date Posted: 2013/07/07
Mohamed Sulaiman
by Mohamed Sulaiman , Site Project Manager , Al tabarak for Engineering & Contracting company

1- Choose suitabl statical system for the structure.

2- Assign loads for a project.

3- Analysis for the project

4- Design and select suitable steel sections or make built up section, and design connections and splices if you have.

5-Check deflections and stresses and lateral buckling for steel members.

6- Prepare design drawings and details for connections.

Tamer Abuzeid
by Tamer Abuzeid , Managing Director , Momentum Steel Engineering

first , you have to decide for the statical system to be used , followed by load calculations then the structral analysis which will be based on assumed preliminary sections. after several iterations the sections choice can be refined to have more economic design.

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