SSD3601/101/0/2016

Tutorial letter 101/0/2016

Structural Steel and Timber Design III

SSD3601
Year Module
Department of Civil & Chemical Engineering

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
This tutorial letter contains important information
about your module.

CONTENTS
Page
1

INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 3

PURPOSE OF AND OUTCOMES FOR THE MODULE ............................................................... 3

2.1

Purpose ........................................................................................................................................ 3

2.2

Outcomes ..................................................................................................................................... 3

LECTURER(S) AND CONTACT DETAILS ................................................................................... 3

3.1

Lecturer(s) .................................................................................................................................... 3

3.2

Department ................................................................................................................................... 4

3.3

University ...................................................................................................................................... 4

MODULE-RELATED RESOURCES ............................................................................................. 4

4.1

Prescribed books .......................................................................................................................... 4

4.2

Recommended books ................................................................................................................... 5

4.3

Electronic Reserves (e-Reserves) ................................................................................................. 6

STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE MODULE ............................................................... 6

MODULE-SPECIFIC STUDY PLAN ............................................................................................. 6

MODULE PRACTICAL WORK AND WORK-INTEGRATED LEARNING .................................... 6

ASSESSMENT ............................................................................................................................. 7

8.1

Assessment plan........................................................................................................................... 7

8.2

General assignment numbers ....................................................................................................... 7

8.2.1

Unique assignment numbers ........................................................................................................ 8

8.2.2

Due dates for assignments ........................................................................................................... 8

8.3

Submission of assignments .......................................................................................................... 8

8.4

Assignments ............................................................................................................................... 11

OTHER ASSESSMENT METHODS ........................................................................................... 16

10

EXAMINATION ........................................................................................................................... 16

11

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ........................................................................................ 16

12

SOURCES CONSULTED ........................................................................................................... 16

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CONCLUSTION.......................................................................................................................... 17

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INTRODUCTION
Dear Student
This tutorial letter serves as a guideline to this course. It provides you with general
administrative information as well as specific information about the subject. Read it
carefully and keep it safe for future reference. We trust that you will enjoy this course and
find it important for the basis of your career.

PURPOSE OF AND OUTCOMES FOR THE MODULE

2.1

Purpose

The purpose of this module is to introduce students to structural loading analysis, timber
design and structural steel design.
2.2

Outcomes

At the end of the course the students should have an understanding and skills in
structural loading; steel connection design; steel elements design; timber section
resistance to tension and compression, bending and shear effects; timber elements
bolted and nailed joints design.

LECTURER(S) AND CONTACT DETAILS

3.1

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer:

Mrs. M.S Mlasi

Physical address:

GJ Gerwel Building, C-Block, Room C5-38, UNISA Science

Campus, Florida

Telephone:

011 471 2547

Email address:

mlasims@unisa.ac.za

Consultation times: UNISA office hours (08:00 16:00), on weekdays, strictly on

appointment.
Method of communication is via emails and/or telephonically.

3.2

Department

Department of Civil and Chemical Engineering

GJ Gerwel Building, C-Block, 5th Floor, UNISA Science Campus, Florida
Private Bag x 6
Florida
1710
Contacts: 011471 2048/3132

3.3

University

University of South Africa

http://www.unisa.ac.za

MODULE-RELATED RESOURCES
4.1

Prescribed books

South African Steel Construction Handbook (Limit states design). The South
African Institute of Steel Construction (RED BOOK).

You will receive lecture notes compiled in a disc, which will be posted to you. You
should use these notes together with your study Guide throughout this course.
You should receive your notes during the first week of April 2016. If you have not
received your notes by that time, please contact your lecturer as soon as possible.
The same notes will also be posted on myUnisa for your convenience.

Please note:

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You are expected to purchase your own latest copy of the prescribed book. For contact
details of official booksellers, please consult the list of official booksellers and their
addresses in my Studies @ Unisa.
4.2

Recommended books

Design Codes:

SANS 10162-1:2005: The structural use of steel - Part 1: Limit-state design of hotrolled steelwork. ISBN 0-626-16165-7.

SANS 10160-1989: The general procedures and loadings to be adopted in the

design of buildings.

SANS 10163-2:2001: The structural use of timber. Part 1,

SANS 10163-2:2001: The structural use of timber. Part 2, Allowable stress design
/ South African Bureau of Standards.

Design Books (You may buy one or all of these books, if necessary):
Author:

Greg Parrott

Title:

Structural Steel Design to SANS 10162:1 2005

Year published:

2005

Edition:

2nd (You may purchase the latest edition)

Publisher:

Shades Technical Publications, Durban, South Africa

OR
Author:

Dr. Jeffrey Mahachi

Title:

Design of Structural Steelwork to SANS 10162

Year published:

(You may purchase the latest copy)

Edition:

(You may purchase the latest edition)

Contacts:

Email: maureenh@nhbrc.org.za

Tel:

011 317 0075

OR
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Author:

The South African Institute of Steel Construction

Title:

The Structural Steel Connections (The Green Book)

Year published:

(You may purchase the latest copy)

Edition:

(You may purchase the latest edition)

Contacts:

45 Empire Road, Melville, Johannesburg, 2109

Email:

info@saisc.co.za

Tel:

011 726 6111

4.3

Electronic Reserves (e-Reserves)

None

STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE MODULE

Important information appears in your my Studies @ Unisa brochure. The myUNISA

system https://my.unisa.ac.za is a facility for registered UNISA students that enable
students to perform study-related functions that are normally conducted by post,
telephonically or by personal visits to the campus or via the Internet.

MODULE-SPECIFIC STUDY PLAN

Use your my Studies @ Unisa brochure for general time management and planning
skills.

MODULE PRACTICAL WORK AND WORK-INTEGRATED LEARNING

There is a project component (SSD 3602) for this module, which must be passed before
the final result can be released.

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ASSESSMENT
8.1 Assessment plan

There will be formative and summative assessment. Formative assessment will be the
two assignments and summative assessment will be the open book examinations.

Formative assessment for SSD 3601 takes place through a semester mark system.
Assignment 01 is composed of multiple-choice questions and must either be completed
on the computer mark-reading sheet issued to you during registration or submitted
electronically via myUNISA. Assignment 2 is a written assignment, ensure that you work
through your assignments clearly and submit on time. Please take note that there is a
penalty for late submissions:

Assignment No.

Official due date

27 May 2016

24 June 2016
Later than 26 July 2016, you

21 days and more

will be given zero percent

for your assignment score.

*The Memorandum for Assignment 2 will be posted on myUnisa on the 26th of July 2016, unless otherwise stated.

8.2 General assignment numbers

Assignments are numbered consecutively per module, starting from 01

8.2.1 Unique assignment numbers

8.2.2

8.3

Assignment No.

Unique Number

696351

670398

Due dates for assignments

Assignment No.

Due Date

27 May 2016

24 June 2016

Submission of assignments

Note: The cut off dates given here are the official, last dates on which a given assignment
must be submitted. Students must adhere to these dates only. All other dates referring to cutoff submission dates for assignments, as may be posted on myUnisa or elsewhere, refers to
administrative dates as managed by the Assignments Department and does NOT influence
or change the above dates.
You can submit your assignment:

By post.

Electronically through myUnisa.

Tutorial Letters are available from the myUnisa website. (See my Studies @ Unisa)
Should you encounter any problems in submitting an assignment on myUnisa, you may
contact the help line at: myUnisaHelp@unisa.ac.za

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Plagiarism
An assignment is designed to be a product of your own study and your own thought. It is
not intended to be a piece of work which merely reproduces details, information or ideas
from a study guide, from books or articles, or from the Internet.

If you do this, you commit plagiarism. Plagiarism is the act of copying word for word with or
without acknowledgment from study sources (e.g. books, articles, the Internet). In other
words, you must submit your own ideas in your own words, sometimes interspersing
relevant short quotations that are properly referenced.

Yes, simply copying a few pages from the prescribed book is plagiarism. Pasting
paragraphs from Wikipedia into your assignment is plagiarism. And it does not stop being
plagiarism if you mention the source.

Skilled scientific writers can use direct block quotations to make a specific point. They
know what they are doing. You still need to develop your own voice, your own style of
arguing the point. Do not plagiaries.

Note that you also commit plagiarism if you copy the assignment of another student. We
do encourage you to work together and form study groups, but you are expected to
prepare and submit your own assignments. When we receive two or more identical
assignments, we are not able to work out who copied from whom. We will therefore
penalize both students.

If you commit plagiarism you will be penalized and given no marks for your
assignment. This will have a serious effect on your chances to succeed in your
studies because you will have no semester or year mark.

Furthermore, you may be penalized or subjected to disciplinary proceedings by the

University. Plagiarism is also an offence in terms of the law.
A Signed Declaration
Every essay-type assignment we receive must include the following declaration along with
your name and the date:

I declare that this assignment is my own work and that all sources quoted
have been acknowledged by appropriate references.

We will subtract marks if this declaration is absent from your assignment, just as we will
subtract marks if your assignment does not have a Table of contents, List of references
cited, and so on.

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8.4

Assignments

ASSIGNMENT 01

Question 1
Structural steel refers to the products of
1. Concrete mill
2. Steel and concrete mill
3. Steel mill
4. None of the above

Question 2
Obtaining an aesthetically pleasing hot dip galvanized finish is a function of
1. Correct steel chemical composition.
2. Handling.
3. Cleanness.
4. Climate.

Question 3
The effective length factor K is taken as 1.0 when the ends of the column are
1. Both fixed.
2. Both pinned.
3. Partially fixed.
4. Supported on rollers.

Question 4
The factored tensile resistance of a holding down bolt is given in
1. Clause 25.1.1.1 of SANS 10162 Part 1.
2. Clause 2.2.5 of SANS 10162 Part 1.
3. Clause 25.2.2.1 of SANS 10162 Part 1.
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4. Clause 4.2.2.1 of SANS 10162 Part 1.

Question 5
If the load is destabilizing, it means
1. The load will never cause failure.
2. The load is applied at the top flange and it is free to move with the top flange.
3. The load will cause the top flange to fail.
4.

The load will cause the bottom flange to fail.

Question 6
For members subject to bending about both axes of symmetry (x and y), the following
expression must be satisfied:

1. Mux/Mrx +Muy/Mry 1.0

2. Mux/Muy 1.0
3. Mrx/Mry 1.0
4. Mux/Mrx - Muy/Mry 1.0

Question 7
In South Africa, bolts of two property classes are common for structural purposes.
Namely,
1. Class 4.2 and Class 8.4
2. Class 4.0 and Class 8.4
3. Class 4.8 and Class 8.8
4. Class 4.2 and Class 8.8

Question 8
The following configurations describe the welded joints.
1. Solid and butt joints.
2. Solid and corner joints.
3. Butt and lap joints.
4. None of the above.
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Question 9
When a T-type connection or an I-beam is loaded in tension, flexure of the bolted part
may lead to an increase in the tensile forces in the bolts. This is due to
1. Material failure.
2. Connection failure.
3. Prying action.
4. None of the above.

Question 10
It is good practice to ensure that the cross sectional area of the splice plates is
1. At least equal to that of the element they are connecting.
2. Less than that of the element they are connecting.
3. Twice that of the element they are connecting.
4. Bigger than that of the element they are connecting.

End of Assignement 1

ASSIGNMENT 02
Question 1
Draw the shear force and bending moment diagrams at the ultimate limit state for the
beam shown in Figure 1. The beam supports a uniformly distributed load comprising a
nominal dead load of 10 kN/m (including self-weight) and a nominal live load of 20 kN/m.
The beam is also subject to two concentrated loads situated at 3 m and 5 m from the
face of the column on the left hand side respectively, comprising a dead load of 15 kN
and a live load of 25 kN. Consider the beam to span from center to center of the
columns. Locate the point of the maximum bending moment and calculate the value.

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Figure 1 Beam

[25 Marks]

Question 2
A 203 x 140 x 20 kg/m structural T-section cut from a 406 x 140 x 39 kg/m I- section of
Grade S355JR steel is used as a column of length 5m, and is assumed to be pinned at
both ends. The column is braced at the mid-height to prevent movement in the xdirection. The bracing does not provide torsional restraint. Determine the factored
compressive resistance of the section.
[35 Marks]

Question 3
A 152 x 38 mm V4 SAP joist is bolted to a 114 x 38 mm V4 column. The permanent load
is 2 kN and an imposed load of 5 kN is applied for 8 hours every day in a sheltered area.
Refer to the sketch in Figure 2 and then design the bolted joint. Assume 4 M12 bolts will
be used. Comment on your results.
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Figure 2
[20 Marks]

End of Assignment 2

TOTAL MARKS = 80

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OTHER ASSESSMENT METHODS

None

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EXAMINATION

Use your my Studies @ Unisa brochure for general examination guidelines and examination
preparation guidelines.
EXAMINATION INFORMATION FOR STRUCTURAL STEEL & TIMBER DESIGN III
(SSD 3601)
Type of examination

Open Book

Examination language

English

Examination scope and preparations

The examination assesses all the expected

course outcomes as stated in Section 2.2
above. You are expected to visit myUnisa
often to find out about the proposed dates for
examination preparations.

Calculators

Allowed

Memories

of Yes

programmable calculators must be cleared

in the presence in invigilator prior to start of
the examination
Other instructions

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As written on the question paper

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

The my Studies @ Unisa brochure contains an A-Z guide of the most relevant study
information.

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SOURCES CONSULTED

The Prescribed Textbook and Design codes have been fully used in formulating the
assignments and examinations relevant to this module.
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CONCLUSION

We wish you the best in your career, and we believe you find the module very informative. After
all it is in your interest to make the best out of the contents of this module.

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