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Development of Consumer friendly Design Tool for Design
of Steel Structures as Per IS 800-2007
Porika Hima Madhur ; Dr. S Sunil Pratap Reddy
1M.Tech. (Structural Engineering) Vaagdevi college of engineering, Warangal, India
2Professor, Department of Civil Engineering Vaagdevi college of engineering, Warangal, India
Abstract
Structural steel is a material used for steel
construction, which is formed with a specific
shape following certain standards of
chemical composition and strength. They
can also be defined as hot rolled products,
with a cross section of special form like
angles, channels and beams/joints.The latest
version of Indian Code of Practice for
general steel construction, IS 800-2007 is
based on the Limit State Method. The design
procedure has undergone a drastic change
in comparison to the earlier design code IS
800-1984, which was based on the Elastic
Method of design. The design based on Limit
State Method involves numerous complex
equations and parameters. Hence flipping
the pages of the design manual to look up a
design strength parameter or a section size
for a given load is not only time consuming
but also cumbersome for the engineer. Here
an attempt has been made for
understanding more rigorously the new
proposed formulations and its practical
applications.The study is done to provide
design concepts based on recent version of
IS 800 published in year 2007. The major
changes are incorporated in the present
design method in comparative with earlier
version of IS 800 published in year 1984.
Introduction
Iron and steel are considered as the basic
raw materials for several subsidiary
industries such as engineering, automobiles,
locomotives, machine tools, and ship
building. The unique position of iron among
the metals may be attributed to its
abundance and to the wide range of
properties that can be imparted to it by
various treatments and by alloying it with
various amounts of other elements. There
has been an increasing demand for structural
steel for construction purposes in India. The
structural steel all over the world pre- dominates the construction scenario. This
material has been exhaustively used in
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various constructions all over the world
because of its various specific characteristics
that are very much ideally suited for
construction. Structural steel is durable and
can be well moulded to give the desired
shape to give an ultimate look to the
structure that has been constructed.
Although structural members are
incombustible, their strength is
tremendously reduced at temperatures,
commonly reached in fires when the other
materials in a building burn. Furthermore,
since steel is an excellent heat conductor,
non-fireproofed steel members may transmit
enough heat from a burning section or
compartment of a building to ignite
materials which come into contact with them
in adjoining section of the building. Due to
these factors the steel frames of a building
may have to be protected by materials with
certain insulating characteristics.The longer
and more slender the compression members,
the greater in the danger of buckling.
Though steel has a high strength per unit of
weight, steel columns have to be stiffened
against buckling resulting in uneconomical
solutions sometimes.
Literature Review
Dr.T.Muralidhara Rao, S.S.Phani
The paper provides a comparative analysis
between versions of steel codes. The latest
version of the Code of Practice for general
construction in steel IS: 800-2007 is based
on Limit State Method of design. The design
concept is totally changed in comparison to
earlier code IS 800:1984 which is based on
Elastic method. In view of this, an effort has
been made to high light the critical
comparison between the important clauses
of IS: 800-2007 and IS: 800-1984. At a
glance, the present study will provide the
readers a quick and clear idea about the
changes in the corresponding clauses of old
(IS: 800-1984) and new (IS: 800-2007)
codes of practice. Codes of practice provide
the minimum requirements that a design has
to satisfy. In India, Bureau of Indian
Standards (B.I.S.) is the statutory body that
publishes the codes of practice to be
followed in the Indian Professional practice.
Though the codes of practices issued by
B.I.S. are revised after 20 to 25 years, the
second revision of IS 800 was published in
1984. The third revision of the code was
released after about 24 years, in December
2007, by the B.I.S. The material contained
in the code reflects the state-of-the-art of
knowledge and is based on the provisions in
other international codes as well as other
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research publications.Dr. N. Subramanian,
Codes of practice reflect the combined
wisdom of a profession. They provide the
minimum requirements that a design has to
satisfy. They have a legal status, in the sense
that any failure consequent to the violation
of the provisions of a code can land a
designer into a legal liability. However, the
codes of practice do not prescribe a process
of design nor they constrain the designer
from adopting the latest knowledge and
developments in the profession to do the
design. More recently, the provisions of the
codes of practice have been incorporated in
the computer aided design software to
ensure the design meets the requirements of
the governing code. Hence, the method of
representing the code in such software can
greatly affect the transparency and longevity
of the software. With continuing research
and development activities at an accelerated
pace, there is great explosion in the
generation and dissemination of knowledge
in all areas of engineering. This has led to
the need to revise the governing codes of
practice at regular intervals, in order to
reflect the more recently generated
professional knowledge appropriately in the
corresponding codes.Prof. Ravindra
Bhimarao Kulkarni The latest version of
the Code of Practice for general construction
in steel IS 800:2007 is based on Limit State
Method of design. The design concept is
totally changed in comparison to earlier IS
800:1984 which is based on elastic method.
In the present work, the detailed study of
structural components as tension members
by designing using Limit State Method and
Working Stress Method has been carried out
and submitted the comparative study of the
same in the form of graphs and charts,
which highlights the actual economy
achieved by Limit State Method over
Working Stress Method for different
structural sections. The observations made
based on this study are very much useful to
the practicing structural engineers.
Methodology of Excel Program
The design tool consists of a user interface
asking for inputs of design. The inputs are
mapped to certain design calculation sheets
and the outputs were sorted with various
checks as specified according to the user
requirements. The cells were again sorted
with priority order and the results window is
displayed with obtained results accordingly.
The flow chart of the program includes
complete design procedure for each and
every available Indian Standard sections and
