Structural Design of Industrial Facilities

Instructor

Kasi V. Bendapudi, S.E., P.E., B.S., M.S.
Mr. Bendapudi is a registered professional engineer in several states.Mr.Bendapudi is a structural engineering consultant in Dallas, Texas. He has over 35 years of design experience in structural engineering. He specializes in the design of heavy industrial, manufacturing, and hi-tech facilities. He is responsible for the structural design of numerous industrial and manufacturing facilities in the United States and overseas. His experience also includes: evaluation of structural deficiencies and damage assessment; failure analysis of equipment foundations and superstructure; evaluation of construction defects, structure stability and safety; reconstruction of construction accidents and failures. Mr.Bendapudi has taught several seminars in the USA and Canada in the field of structural engineering and forensics.

Mr.Bendapudi is a certified Structures Specialist – FEMA, National Urban Search and Rescue (US &R) Response Operations. He also served as a Structures Specialist in the Texas Task Force one (TX-TF1). He also is a professional member of the American Institute of Steel Construction (M.AISC) and Association for Iron & Steel Technology (M.AIST),Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (M.ASCE), and the Structural Engineers' Association of Texas (M.SEAoT).He served on the ASCE "Standards Subcommittee on Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings" and the ASCE Committee on "Special Structures". He also served on the “Examinations sub-committee ”for Structural I, and Civil Engineering licensing examinations administered by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES). He is an Official Program Evaluator for Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).

Mr. Bendapudi is listed in American Men and Women of Science, Martindale- Hubbell’s Directory of Legal Experts and Consultants, America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals, and Strathmore’s Who is Who Registry. He is also a recipient of the Educational Achievement Award from the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison (extension) and has published several articles in the area of structural design of industrial facilities.

Course Description

Efficient structural design of industrial facilities requires engineers to synthesize theories and practices. The central theme of this course is to develop structural design of industrial facilities in a systematic manner with the structural systems and essential subsystems including crane runways, mill buildings, combined columns, and industrial floors. Connections and anchorage required for assembling a safe and serviceable structure are enumerated. It discusses essential concepts of strength, stability, serviceability, and safety. The design intricacies of various structural elements associated with industrial plants are reviewed. Mass concrete and mat foundation designs utilized in the industrial facilities are investigated. The course covers the analysis of elevated floors subjected to moving loads (traffic) and establishes structural design procedures by illustrating them with numerical examples similar to those typically encountered in design offices. Structural failures and collapses are discussed. The course concludes with the case studies and exchange of ideas including the application of the concepts learned during the seminar.

Learning Objectives

• Relevant design concepts or the structural design of industrial facilities
• Design procedures
• Hands on workshops for the concepts of structure stability
• Case studies to apply the concepts learned

Who Should Attend

Structural designers, consultants, architectural engineers, plant engineers, facility owners, building manufactures, contractors, municipal engineers, and other regulatory agency engineers who influence the design, location, and the use of industrial facilities. You will also benefit if you are a structural engineer desiring to increase your familiarity with industrial structures and facilities or are planning to practice in this field.

Seminar Benefits

You will attend a unique course that covers problems, and solutions involved with the design of industrial facilities. You will benefit from a broad range of topics covered, with design procedures and real-life practical examples. This course is intended to introduce some of the theoretical concepts and practical methods to design industrial facilities. You will learn design of crane runways, mill buildings, industrial floors on grade, elevated floors, and foundations for industrial facilities. You will be introduced to the concepts of strength, stability.

Summary Outline

Day One

• 8:00 Registration And Coffee
• 8:15 Introduction
• Industrial facilities, general and specialty manufacturing facilities
• 8:30 Structural Systems And Components
• Systems with cranes-heavy industrial facilities
• Systems without cranes-light industrial/manufacturing facilities
• Pre-engineered metal buildings do and don'ts
• Hybrid systems
• Essential Subsystems
• Roofs
• Walls
• Floors
• Crane runways & columns
• Foundations
• 9:15 Structural Failure And Collapse
• 10:15 Refreshments And Networking
• 10:30 Elevated Floors
• Types of floors used in industrial facilities
• Design concepts, crack control, joints, form deck, permanent forms, openings, and composite vs. non-composite
• Design of elevated floors for forklift truck traffic
• 11:30 Industrial Floors On Grade
• Classification of floors on grade based on usage and design
• Quality of floors
• Use of vapor barrier and reinforcing steel
• Superflat technology and tolerances
• Planning and selection of flatwork contractor
• Outline specifications
• Details of slabs on grade
• 12:30 Lunch Break
• 1:30 Crane Runways
• Overview of cranes
• Crane systems commonly used in the industrial facilities; under hung, overhead (EOT), yard cranes, and floor mounted jibs.
• Service classifications (CMAA) and usage
• Forces imparted by cranes and operational aspects of cranes
• Crane load specifications 
• AISC vs. AISE
• Load combinations involving cranes
• Design of EOT crane runways and details
• 3:00 Serviceability
• Deflections and camber
• Side sway
• Drift index
• Differential settlements
• Expansion and contraction
• Vibrations and noise
• Base rotations and connection slip
• Corrosion
• 3:45 Introduction To Case Studies
• 4:15 Q&A
• 4:30 Adjournment

• 8:30 Design Of Mill Buildings And Combined Columns
• Design considerations
• K-factors and end restraints
• Column Design recommended procedure
• Bracing requirements
• Base fixity, rotational restraints, and support settlement
• Lateral drift and stiffness considerations
• Design of fixed column bases
• 10:00 Refreshments And Networking
• 10:15 Connections And Anchorages
• High strength bolts ASTM A325 and ASTM A490
• Bearing
• Fully tensioned
• Slip critical
• Standard connections
• Moment connections
• Column to truss connections, and general considerations for long span trusses
• Connections at column bases and design of base plates
• Design of anchor bolts
• Design of shear lugs
• Connections of pre-cast walls
• 11:00 Foundations
• Mat Foundations
• Mass concrete
• Piles
• Drilled piers
• 12:00 Lunch Break
• 1:00 Workshop-Structure Stability
• 1:45 Structure Stability
• Concepts of strength and stability
• Local buckling and member failure
• Bracing design
• Magical 2% rule
• Diaphragm shears and connection design
• Design of roof structure to prevent ponding failures
• 2:45 Refreshments And Networking
• 3:00 Workshop- Case Studies
• 4:00 Presentations By The Attendees
• 4:15 Concluding Remarks and assessment of the presentation
• 4:30 Final Adjournment