Course Description
This course teaches the methods contained in the AISI S100-16 North American Specification for Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members to calculate the resistance of screw connections in steel, in shear and in tension.
Learning Objectives
• Learn the limit states for screw connections loaded in shear, and how to calculate the resistance of those connections.
• Learn the limit states for screw connections loaded in tension, and how to calculate the resistance of those connections.
About the Author
Thomas Sputo, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., SECB is the Technical Director of the Steel Deck Institute, a trade organization of steel deck manufacturers. Additionally, he is a consulting structural engineer with the Gainesville, FL firm of Sputo and Lammert Engineering, LLC, and Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida.
Prerequisites:
There are no special prerequisites for this course.
