• Introduction to steel structures. Structural steel. Basic design principles of Eurocode 3.
  • Classification of steel sections. Resistance of sections in tension, compression, shear, bending, torsion.
  • Resistance of sections in combined stresses. Final design equations for sections.
  • Flexural, torsional and flexural-torsional buckling.
  • Lateral-torsional buckling and lateral restraints.
  • Shear buckling of thin-web members, local instability effects.
  • Resistance of members in combined buckling phenomena. Final design equations for members.