General – Description Of Steel Structures – Development, Manufacture And Types Of Steel – Structural Design – Fabrication Of Steelwork – Mechanical Properties Of Structural Steel – Variation Of Material Properties – Characteristic Strength – Design Strength – Other Design Values For Steel – Corrosion And Durability Of Steelwork – Brittle Fracture – Residual Stresses – Fatigue – Stress Concentrations – Failure Criteria For Steel – Actions – Description – Classification Of Actions – Actions Varying In Time – Design Values Of Actions – Actions With Spatial Variation – Laterally Restrained Beams – Structural Classification Of Sections – Elastic Section Properties And Analysis In Bending – Elastic Shear Stresses – Elastic Torsional Shear Stresses – Plastic Section Properties And Analysis – Effect Of Shear Force On The Plastic Moment Of Resistance – Lateral Restraint – Resistance Of Beams To Transverse Forces – Laterally Unrestrained Beams – Lateral Torsional Buckling Of Rolled Sections Symmetric About Both Axes – Pure Torsional Buckling – Plate Girders – Axially Loaded Members – Axially Loaded Tension Members – Combined Bending And Axial Force – Excluding Buckling – Buckling Of Axially Loaded Compression Members – Combined Bending And Axial Force – With Buckling – Structural Joints .