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Advances In Steel Work Design And Inspection
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21/8/2022 - 25/8/2022 |
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Dubai - UAE
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| Steel is perhaps the most used construction material in the USA for high-rise towers, industrial buildings, bridges and other structures. It competes with reinforced concrete in the US and rest of the world because of its many favorable characteristics including high strength, high stiffness, ductility and toughness, speed of erection, competitive cost, etc. Its use in the Middle East region has been mostly confined to industrial plants and warehouses. The rise in labor cost and the need for higher buildings will inevitably improve the competitive edge of steel in many instances in the near future.
Design of steel structures has widely been based on the Allowable Stress Design whether the AISC standards of the British BS449 standards are used. This situation has changed since the mid eighties, but old habits expire hard. Many designers and fabricators still use the old allowable stress techniques. The more recent LRFD code of the AISC and the limit state BS5950 offer more rational and economical procedures for the design of steel structures.
This course shall make reference to various codes old and new but is primarily based on the AISC-LRFD procedures, which are the recognized state of the art in design.
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