Limit States Design in Structural Steel

Book excerpt: The Tenth Edition of this text introduces the changes in the 2014 edition of CSA-S16 standard and the 2013 edition of CSA-G40.20/G40.21. Since this textbook is intended to be used in conjunction with the 11th edition of the CISC Handbook of steel construction, the changes in the Handbook have also been adopted in the textbook. These changes, which reflect changes in the steel inductr4y, include adjustments to rolled steel shapes section properties to reflect a change in the flange to web transition radius, the deletion of some rolled shapes and welded wide flange (WWF) sections that are no longer produced in North American mills. With an expanding global market, some structural steel shapes, such as rolled wide flange sections, are becoming more prevalent in American steel grades (ASTM classification) whereas some shapes, such as plates, are still readily available in Canadian steel grades (CSA-G40.21 classification). Therefore American grade steels have been introduced in some of the design examples. Furthermore, since metric size bolts are only rarely used in the construction industry, the design tables for bolts and bolted connections presented in the CISC Handbook have abandoned metric size bolts. Therefore, imperial size bolts are mainly used in this new edition of the text. Divided into 11 chapters, the book covers tension members, flexural members, columns, beam-columns, stability, fatigue behaviour, connections, plate girders, composite construction, and types and grades of structural steel.