Syllabus Content:
 Steel Gantry Girders: Introduction, loads acting on gantry girder, permissible stress, types of gantry girders and crane rails, crane data, maximum moments and shears, construction detail, design procedure.
Portal Frames: Design of portal frame with hinge base, design of portal frame with fixed base - Gable Structures – Lightweight Structures
 Steel Bunkers and Silos: Design of square bunker – Jansen’s andAiry’s theories – IS Code provisions – Design of side plates – Stiffeners – Hooper – Longitudinal beams Design of cylindrical silo – Side plates – Ring girder – stiffeners..
 Chimneys: Introduction, dimensions of steel stacks, chimney lining, breech openings and access ladder, loading and load combinations, design considerations, stability consideration, design of base plate, design of foundation bolts, design of foundation.
 Water Tanks: Design of rectangular riveted steel water tank – Tee covers – Plates – Stays –Longitudinal and transverse beams –Design of staging – Base plates – Foundation and anchor bolts
 Design of pressed steel water tank: Design of stays – Joints – Design of hemispherical bottom water tank – side plates – Bottom plates – joints – Ring girder –Design of staging and foundation.