Steel Design - Building analysis and design
Below pin jointed truss is part of a steel building. Your task is to complete the preliminary design of the frame. For preliminary design stage, it is accepted that the frame is detached from the remaining structure with given boundary conditions after load tributary and geometry repetition are considered.
1. a. Manually compute and construct the AFD. Use a FE software of your choice (Ansys, Strand7) to model the system, solve it using Linear Static Solver and produce AFD to confirm.
b. Instead of pin jointed condition, the frame is now semi rigid. In FE software, re-model the joint condition to reflect this scenario; solve it using Linear Static Solver. Obtain BMD, SFD and AFDs.
