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Pipeline Structurals: Prepared By: Ashok M

This document discusses structural engineering and pipeline structures. It defines structural engineering as designing structures to safely resist forces. It describes the structural engineering process, including determining loads, generating alternatives, analyzing alternatives, selecting a design, and implementing it. It outlines different types of loads structures must resist, such as dead, live, dynamic, wind, earthquake, and thermal loads. It also describes different types of structures and their load paths.

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Pipeline Structurals: Prepared By: Ashok M

This document discusses structural engineering and pipeline structures. It defines structural engineering as designing structures to safely resist forces. It describes the structural engineering process, including determining loads, generating alternatives, analyzing alternatives, selecting a design, and implementing it. It outlines different types of loads structures must resist, such as dead, live, dynamic, wind, earthquake, and thermal loads. It also describes different types of structures and their load paths.

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PIPELINE STRUCTURALS

PREPARED BY:
ASHOK M

Objective of Structural Engineering


Structural Engineering Process
Types of loads
Types of structures
Load paths in structures
Summary

structural
geotechnical
environmental
transportation
construction

Structural engineering is the science and art of


designing and making, with economy and elegance,
buildings, bridges, frameworks, and other structures
so that they can safely resist the forces to which
they may be subjected.

The Structural Engineer,


Official Journal of the British Institute of
Structural Engineers

Determine types magnitudes of loads


Determine structural context

geometric and geological information


cost / schedule / height/ etc. limitations

Generate alternative structural systems


Analyze one or more alternatives
Select and perform detailed design
Implement (usually done by contractor)

Dead loads
Live loads
Dynamic loads (e.g., trains, equipment)
Wind loads
Earthquake loads
Thermal loads
Settlement loads

weight of the structure itself

floors, beams, roofs, decks,


beams/stringers, superstructure

loads that are always there

People, furniture, equipment


Loads that may move or
change mass or weight
Minimum design loadings are usually
specified in the building code

Ballroom

Live Load = 100 lb/ft^2

Moving loads (e.g. traffic)


Impact loads
Gusts of wind
Loads due to cycling machinery

HVAC
F
t

Water,
= density

p = gh

Structure loaded when base is shaken


Response of structure is dependent on
the frequency of motion
When frequencies match with natural
frequency of structure - resonance

Earthquake Load

Earthquake Load

Base Motion

Arch
Planar Truss
Beam/Girder
Braced Frame
Rigid Frame
Space Truss
Cable Suspended Structure

Braced

Rigid

Load Path is the term used to describe


the path by which loads are
transmitted to the foundations
Different structures have different load
paths
Some structures have only one path
Some have several (redundancy good)

Structural Engineering:

identifies loads to be resisted


identifies alternatives for providing load
paths (arch, truss, frame, ...)
designs structure to provide safe and
economical load paths (material, size,
connections)
to be economical and safe, we must be
able to predict what forces are in structure.

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