KirkGH
Structural
- Jul 17, 2008
- 29
I've been tasked with designing columns for a 4 story building (interior columns only, the perimeter is concrete tilt wall).
Story Height: 15 feet
Floor: Vulcraft VLI composite slab/metal deck with open web steel joists and wide flange steel beams.
Roof: Metal Deck
Column Shape: Square HSS
Approximate 250 feet x 140 feet and 27 feet bays.
Column loads (unfactored/unreduced) up to 600 kips.
Question: In general, what do I need to keep in mind when selecting the sizes and specifying changes in sizes?
What's easiest to build?
Pointers in general?
What are good references? I looked on Google and sifted through the AISC design guides with no luck.
Thanks.
KGH
Story Height: 15 feet
Floor: Vulcraft VLI composite slab/metal deck with open web steel joists and wide flange steel beams.
Roof: Metal Deck
Column Shape: Square HSS
Approximate 250 feet x 140 feet and 27 feet bays.
Column loads (unfactored/unreduced) up to 600 kips.
Question: In general, what do I need to keep in mind when selecting the sizes and specifying changes in sizes?
What's easiest to build?
Pointers in general?
What are good references? I looked on Google and sifted through the AISC design guides with no luck.
Thanks.
KGH