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Design and Analysis of Pre Engineered Industrial Buildings (PEB)

A. SRAVAN KUMAR1, SANJEEV RAO2, MADAN MOHAN3, DR. SREENATHA REDDY4
1

M. Tech Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, JNTU, Hyderabad.
2
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, JNTU, Hyderabad.
3
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, JNTU, Hyderabad.
4
Principal, Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, JNTU, Hyderabad.
Abstract: Pre-engineeredbuildings (PEB) is the concept of steel structures introduce in early 1960s the structure here uses
entire I sections and the beauty here in this concept is no welding process will be carried out in site entire structure will be
Designed and manufactured in shop and this will be brought to sit and assembles, the entire sectional properties will depends
just upon the moments at that specific locations so there wont be any excess steel used in the thus it is economical. Here I
am designing such a PEB building by selecting a real time project consisting a 69m wide and 173m length textile building by
IS 800-2007 Design code using STAAD Pro and explaining its each and every parameters and design and detailing
procedures.
Keywords: Pre-Engineered-Buildings, IS: 800-2007.
TABLE 1
Structure Configuration Details

INTRODUCTION
Pre engineering buildings are generally used for the
Industries airports, Hanger building, power plants what not,
almost all the sectors where the conventional steel structures
are used to be there the half portions of such buildings are
replaced by these PEBs. These PEB buildings can be
constructed with all the requirement like cranes different
level floors and can be constructed up to higher heights.
There are quite pretty uses with these structures we can go
up to higher clear spans horizontally and vertically. It is easy
in point of manufacturing and erection. As the entire
sections are built up sections the required thick plates as per
design will be cut and welded to the design sectional
dimensions there will a max of 12m length pieces because
of transportation restraint. These pieces will be brought to
the site and connected with nut and bolt mechanism. Thus
even the manufacturing process is easy when compared to
regular conventional structures as in those buildings entire
manufacturing i.e. welding process goes on site as it is so
time taking and hazardous.
I. Structure Configuration
The structure which I considered now is a textile plant
located in Ahmedabad having its dimensions as 173m length
and 67m width having a clear height of 6m with 2 no. of
internal column which is at a distance of 1 @ 14m C/C + 1
@ 29m C/C + 1 @ 26m C/C. As the building in Ahmedabad
is falls under seismic zone-III with a wind speed of 39m/s
i.e. 140Kmph. As the structure is having some irregular
intermediate column spacing the structure wont be
symmetric to its ridge. The details of parameters are
provided in table 1

Location
Length
Width
Eave height
Bay spacing

:
:
:
:
:

End Wall column

spacing

Seismic zone
Wind speed
Wind terrain
category
Wind Class
Life Span
Slope of roof
Soil type
Importance factor
Response reduction
factor
Purlin spacing
Girt spacing

:
:
:

Ahmedabad, India.
173 m
67 m
6m (clear)
19 @ 8.0m C/C + 2 @
10.5m C/C
2 @ 7.0m C/C + 1 @
9.5m C/C + 7 @ 6.5m
C/C
III
39 m/sec
2

:
:
:
:
:
:

C
50 years
1:10
Medium
1
5

:
:

1500 mm
1800 mm

TABLE 2
Calculation of Dead Load
Sheeting unit
weight
Purlin wt.

II.

Dead Load Calculation

Dear load consists of self-weight of the frame weight of

sheeting, weight of purlins, Sag angles and additional
components like insula
tion, Roof liners etc. if present Dead load considerations
are as per the IS:875 part 1. The loading calculation is as per
the table 2

: 4.44kg/m2(0.5mm Total Coat

Thick(TCT) galvanized sheet)
: 4.71 kg/m(spacing of purlin =
1.5m)
: 4.71/1.5
: 3.14 kg/m2
: 1.2 kg/m

Sag rods wt.

: 1.2/1.5 :0.8 kg/m2
Insulation
material wt.

: 1.6 kg/m2

Dead load

: 4.44 + 3.14 + 0.8 + 1.6

: 10kg/m2 : 0.1 KN/m2

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III. Live Load Calculation

Live load is considered as per the IS: 875 part 2. And as
per the code IS: 875 part 2 the live load of anon-accessible
roof will be 75 kg/sqm i.e. 0.75kN/Sqm.

IV. Wind Load Calculation

Wind pressure calculation is done as per IS: 875part-2.
After once we arrive the wind pressure the pressure
coefficients of roof and wall are from table 4 and table 5
from IS 875 part 3 those parameters are as follows in
Table3.

Fig. 1 Main frame

TABLE 3
Calculation of Wind Load
Wind speed
(Vb)
Risk coefficient
(K1)
Probability factor (K2)
Topography factor
(K3)
Design wind speed
(VZ)
Design wind pressure
(PZ)

: 39 m/sec
:1
: 0.93
: 1.0
: K1*K2*K3*Vb
: 1*0.93*1*39
: 36.27 m/sec
:0.6*(Vz)2
: 0.6*36.272
: 789.3 N/m2
: 0.789 KN/m2

Fig. 2 Internal frame with changedwidth

V. Pre-Engineered Buildings by STAAD Pro

Structural Analysis and Design program (STAAD) is the
most popular structural engineering software which is
widely used for design of both Reinforced Concrete
Structures and all kinds of steel structures. This software is
developed by Bentley Corporation. This tool helps us to
design the entire structure in 2 Dimensional format or the
entire structure can be done in 3 Dimensional format. It is
equipped with almost all the renowned codes globally. To
design this building we need to do is modeling the structure
with tentative section properties applying load to it and
assigning the required design parameters then the structure
will be analyzed by stiffness matrix method. Then this
analysis will give the result of its stress ratios i.e. actual /
allowable stress ratios and moments of each members and
the deflections the members going, by observing the ratios
and the moments its having we can assign the section
properties accordingly. Thus this program will be reducing
the time consumption and that is how it has become a most
adorable software all over.

Fig. 3 End frame with wind columns

VII. Load Combinations

VI. Drawings
Following drawings includes drawings of frames which
are selected for analysis

Load combinations include different combinations of

loads according to different codes (AISC-89/MBMA-86,
IS800-1984, IS800-2007) by considering serviceability and
strength criteria as follows in TableV [4]-[7].

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TABLE 4
Load Combinations According to Different Codes
IS 800-2007
Serviceability Combinations:
(DL+LL)
(DL+WL/EL)
(DL+LL+CL)
(DL+0.8*LL+0.8*WL/EL+0.8*CL)
Design combinations:
1.5*(DL+LL)
1.5*(DL+WL/EL)
(0.9*DL+1.5 WL/EL)
(1.5*DL+1.5*LL+1.05*CL)
(1.5*DL+1.05*LL+1.5*CL)
(1.2*DL+1.2*LL+0.6*WL/EL+1.05*CL)
(1.2*DL+1.05*LL+0.6*WL/EL+1.2*CL)
(1.2*DL+1.2*LL+1.2 *WL/EL+0.53*CL)
(1.2*DL+1.2*LL+1.2*WL/EL+0.53*CL)

VIII. Design Specifications

These design specifications includes the limiting ratios of
the sections i.e. like web depth/ web thickness, flange width /
flange thickness. The class selection will be depended upon
the seismic zone and building importance factor accordance to
that the class selection will be done.

TABLE 5
Limiting Width to Thickness Ratio According to IS 800 -2007-Table-2
Compression
Ratio
Class of section
Class 1
Class 2
Class 3(Semi(Plastic)
(Compact)
Compact)
Outstanding element of
Rolled section
b/tf
9.4
10.5
15.7
compression flange
Welded section
b/tf
8.4
9.4
13.6
Internal element of
Compression due to bending
b/tf
29.3
33.5
42
compression flange
Axial compression
b/tf
Not applicable
Web of an I,H or box section
Neutral axis at mid-depth
d/tw
84
105
126
d/tw
(84)/(1+r1)
(105)/(1+r1)
(126)/(1+2r2)
Generally If r1 is negative
but 42
but 42
If r1 is positive
d/tw
(105)/(1+1.5r1)
Axial compression
but 42
d/tw
Not applicable
42
Web of a channel
d/tw
42
42
42
Angle, compression due to bending (Both criteria should be
b/t
10.5
15.7
9.4
satisfied)
d/t
9.4
10.5
15.7
Single angle, or double angles with the components separated, b/t
15.7
axial compression (All three criteria should be satisfied)
d/t
Not applicable
15.7
(b+d)/t
25
Outstanding leg of an angle in contact back-to-back in a double d/t
9.4
10.5
15.7
angle member
outstanding leg of an angle with its back in continuous contact d/t
9.4
10.5
15.7
with another component
Stem of a T-section, rolled or cut from a rolled I-or H- section D/tf
8.4
9.4
18.9
Circular hollow tube, including welded tube subjected to:
D/t
422
522
1462
a) Moment
D/t
Not applicable
882
b) Axial compression
NOTES
1. Elements which exceed semi-compact limits are to be taken as of slender cross-section.
2. = (250 /fy) 1/2.
3. The stress ratio r1 and r2are defined as:
r1 = (Actual average axial stress(negative if tensile)/(Design compressive stress of web alone)
r2 = (Actual average axial stress(negative if tensile)/(Design compressive stress of overall section)\

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TABLE 6
Deflection Limits According to IS 800-2007
S.No
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Description
Main frame
Main frame with crane (pendent)
Main frame with crane (cab operated)
Electric<50t
Crane
beam
Electric>50t
Wind column
Mezzanine beam
Under slung crane
Purlin
Girt
Primary Minimum thickness
Secondary Minimum thickness

IX. Considerations
1) Wind Load application as per IS 875 (Part-3) -1987
(reaffirmed 1997), internal Pressure Coefficient is
considered as +/-0.2. (Since %of opening<5%).
2) External column base considered as fixed support. (Sway
is not controlling with pinned connection).Internal column
base considered as fixed support.
3) Wall cover is full height sheeted all around the building.
4) Rod bracing considered for Roof and wall for longitudinal
restrainment.
X. Conclusion
Following are the conclusions which are observed:
1) The structure Designed in this has consumed a final
weight of 590MT
2) If the structure designed here is not a PEB if it is a
conventional the weights would have gone higher by 30%
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[1] Indian Standard: 1893 (Part1); 2002. Criteria for
Earthquake Resistant Design Structures: New Delhi: BIS;
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[3] Indian Standard: 801 1975; Code Of Practice For Use
Of Cold-Formed Light Gauge Steel Structural Members
In General Building Construction, 1st Revision, New
Delhi: BIS.

Vertical
L/180
L/180
L/180
L/750
L/1000

Lateral
H/150
H/200
H/400

H/150
L/240
L/750
L/150
L/150
5mm
2mm

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Steel Code of Practice; 3rd S Revision, New Delhi:
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