Steel as a structural material, applications of steel structures, advantages and disadvantages, steel production, mechanical properties of steel, ultimate and serviceability limit states, factors of safety, loads and load combinations, cross section classification, member verification at the ultimate limit state under tension, compression (flexural buckling), shear, bending (of laterally protected members), torsion (uniform and non-uniform) and their combinations. Elastic and plastic analysis and design. Bearing-type bolts in shear. Single storey industrial buildings: conceptual planning, basic elements and their function (main frames or trusses, purlins, auxiliary columns, vertical and horizontal bracing, sheeting, foundation). Laboratory exercises:

1. Bolting – erection of beam-to-column joints, preloading of bolts, loading tests.
2. Lateral buckling of beams.
3. Corrosion protection of steel structures.