Introduction to Structural Aluminum Design / Ulrich Muller
BRIEF CONTENTS
Aluminium: the material
- History
- Manufacture
- Primary production of aluminium metal
- Secondary production, recycling of aluminium metal
- Physical properties
- Properties of pure aluminium
- Uses or applications of aluminium
- Aluminium and its alloys
- Designation and numbering of aluminium alloys
- Temper designations of aluminium alloys
- Aluminium alloy series
- Durability rating
- Material selection
- Aluminium products
- Flat products
- Extruded products
- Tube products
- Element fabrication
- Sawing and cutting
- Drilling and punching
- Machining and forming
- Jointing
- Heat-affected zone softening
- Corrosion
- Pitting corrosion
- Crevice corrosion
- Intergranular corrosion
- Exfoliation corrosion
- Filiform corrosion
- Stress corrosion (stress corrosion cracking)
- Poultice corrosion
- Galvanic corrosion
- Corrosion prevention
Structural analysis
- Limit state design
- Load factors and loadings
- Loading
- Load factors
- Member properties
- Cross-sectional area
- Location of centroid
- Moment of inertia
- Section moduli
- Radius of gyration
- Structure and element analysis
- Deformation
- Member actions
- Bending moment
- Shear force
- Axial force
- Support reaction
- Finite element analysis
Serviceability limit states
- Displacements
- Vibrations
- Damage
Ultimate limit states
- Principles of ultimate limit state design
- Design values
- Material factors/partial safety factors
- Load factors/load combinations
- Failure states
- Loss of static equilibrium
- Loss of structural strength
- Failure due excessive deformation of ground
- Fatigue failure
Fatigue
- Fatigue susceptibility
- Design against fatigue
- Measures to limit formation of fatigue
- Grinding
- Tungsten inert gas dressing (weld toe re-melting)
- Overloading
- Peening
Structural member design
- Design standards: structural design codes
- British Standard 8118 (BS 8118)
- Eurocode 9 (BS EN 1999)
- Symbols for structural design
- Principle of member axes
- Design basics
- Classification of cross-section
- Local buckling
- Heat-affected zones softening
- Tension members
- Compression members
- Local buckling
- Compressive yielding
- Member buckling
- Flexural members
- Bending only members
- Bending and axial force members
Connections
- Mechanical connections
- Design principle
- Load path
- Fastener material
- Bolt capacities
- Welded connections
- Load path
- Weld types
- Weldable aluminium alloys
- Weld capacities
- Bonded connections
Corrosion prevention
- Corrosion prevention by design
- Prevention by good detailing
- Avoidance of bi-metallic contact
- Avoidance of crevices
- Design for coating
- Maintenance
- Corrosion prevention by surface treatment
- Cleaning/pre-treatment
- Coatings
- Anodising
- Plating
Appendices
- Appendix 1 Tables of dimensions and properties
- Appendix 2 Types of butt weld joint
