Introduction
This course is for designers and technicians wanting practical and immediate tuition in steel connection design. The course is based on the completion of a series of example connections and is highly participative with delegates working on connection designs throughout the course. Delegates will receive a set of model designs for future reference. Connections designed during the course will be subsequently written up and circulated to all delegates.
Core connections will cover shear, splices, bases, welded stubs, moment connections, bracing details and truss connections. Consideration of unorthodox (but not obscure) variations will be encouraged.
Calculators, section tables and BS5950 are essential
Course Content
• Design "standard" connections
• Design non-standard connections
• Understand the principles to be applied to unorthodox connection configurations
• Refere to the "model" designs produced
Speaker/s
• DAVID BROWN, BEng, MICE, has worked for British Rail, Eastern Region, Tate Structural Steelwork as Technical Director, and J N Rowen.
David joined the Steel Construction Institute in 1992, with an interest in construction issues. This included the “Green Book” on moment connections, and various CIMsteel publications on manufacture and construction. David has also been responsible for a guide to the CDM regulations, advice on computer analysis, and the design of curved steel. He is a member of BSI and European technical committees. He manages the Standards activity at the SCI, including the development of a suite fo guides on Eurocode 3.
David is now a Deputy Director at the Institute, but spends much of his time delivering technical courses, notably on Eurocode 3, connections, frame design, BS 5950, and BS 6399-2.
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