Unit 1

Gantry Girder – Design of gantry girder – gantry to column connection. Water Tanks – Design of rectangular, pressed steel tanks – design of suspended bottom tanks – cylindrical tank with hemispherical bottom – design of staging. Chimneys – Design of self-supporting chimney – design principles of guyed chimney. Bunkers, Silos – Introduction – Janssen’s theory – Airy’s theory – design criteria.

Unit 2

Transmission Towers – Introduction – loads on towers – analysis – design of members and foundation. Light gauge members – Light gauge sections – design considerations – allowable stresses – buckling, design of compression members, tension members and laterally supported beams – connections.

Unit 3

• Duggal, S. K., “Limit State Design of Steel Structures”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2010.
• Ramchandra and Gehlot, “Limit State Design of Steel Structures”, Scientific Publishers, 2010.
• N. Subramanian, “Design of Steel Structures”, Oxford University Press, 2008.
• G. W. Owens and P. R. Knowles, “Steel Designers’ Manual”, John Wiley & Sons, 2012
• P. Dayaratnam, “Design of Steel Structures”, S. Chand & Co., 2003.
• M. Raghupathi, “Design of Steel Structures”, Tata McGraw Hill, 1985.
• Murthy and Santhakumar, “Transmission Line Structures”, McGraw Hill, 1990.
• Lin and Breslar, “Design of Steel Structures”, John Wiley & Sons, 1968.
• BIS codes (IS 800, SP 6,IS 804, IS 805, IS 6533, IS 9178, IS 801,IS 811)