Note: This course is full of real-word examples of steel connections.
- Are you ready to develop engineering judgment and interpretation skills for steel connection design, instead of just learning how to model?
- Do you want to compare IDEA StatiCa results with manual calculations and see why differences appear in beam-to-column connections, base plates, and gusset plates?
- Are you prepared to tackle real-world steel connection design challenges faced by professional engineers in structural engineering projects?
This course is a comprehensive and professional training on Steel Structure Connection Design using IDEA StatiCa, developed for engineers who want to master modeling, analysis, design, and interpretation of steel connections from zero to professional level. Unlike basic software tutorials, this course focuses on real engineering behavior, code-based design, and result interpretation, helping you understand why a connection passes or fails — not just how to model it.
You will work with a wide range of moment connections, shear connections, braced connections, gusset plates, base plates, beam splices, and column splices, following AISC and ACI design concepts, capacity design principles, and nonlinear stress–strain analysis.
Headlines:
- 1-Practical Use of Software Operators for Modeling and Design
- 2-Various Rigid Beam-to-Column Connections Based on AISC Code
- 3-Friction-Bolted and Welded Connections
- 4-Semi-Rigid Connections with Tee Sections
- 5-Featuring Reduced Beam Section (RBS) Profiles
- 6-End-Plate Connections With and Without Stiffeners
- 7-Doubler Plates and Continuity Plates
- 8-Fillet and Butt Welds
- 9-Evaluation and Interpretation of Results, and Model Improvements to Satisfy AISC Code Requirements
- 10-Investigating the Sources of Differences Between Software and Manual Calculations
- 11-Custom-Shaped Gusset Plates
- 12-Requirement for Out-of-Plane Buckling
- 13-Brace Buckling
- 14-Local and Global Buckling
- 15-Design of Base Plates and Anchor Bolts Based on American Standards
- 16-Pullout Failure, Shear Failure, Concrete Breakout, and Base Plate Yielding
- 18-Design of Beam Splice Plates Based on AISC Code
- 19-Design of Column Splice Plates with Combined Bolted and Welded Connections Based on AISC Code
Feel free to ask me any questions while going through the course. As you learn steel structure design, just reach out—I’m here to guide you and make sure you fully understand every concept.
