Steel Structure Sizing and Calculation with Excel

Designing safe and efficient steel structures requires precise calculations, but manual sizing can be incredibly time-consuming. By leveraging Excel, you can automate repetitive engineering formulas, reduce errors, and streamline your entire design workflow. This text-only course guides you from the fundamental principles of structural steel design to building your own automated calculation sheets, allowing you to analyze loads, size structural members, and verify connections using clear, step-by-step mathematical models. What you'll learn: - Understand the foundational principles of steel metallurgy, structural behavior, and limit state design. - Calculate tension, compression, bending, and shear capacities for standard steel profiles. - Build automated Excel formulas to analyze load combinations and structural safety factors. - Apply modern Excel features like dynamic arrays and structured tables to organize engineering data. - Design secure bolted and welded connections using standardized mathematical verifications. - Verify structural deflection and serviceability limits to ensure long-term structural integrity. We begin with essential engineering definitions, material properties, and design standards before moving into step-by-step spreadsheet logic. You will learn how to structure formulas logically, ensuring your calculations are easy to audit, update, and deploy for real-world projects. This course is designed for civil engineering students, junior structural designers, and professionals looking to digitize their calculation workflows. No prior advanced programming experience is required; a basic familiarity with Excel is all you need. Start building your own library of automated structural calculation sheets today.