Learning Objectives
- Learn the major aluminum alloy groups and their uses
- Learn the principal structural properties of aluminum
- Become proficient in designing aluminum structural members and connections
Sessions
- February 2, 2021
- February 9, 2021
- February 16, 2021
- February 23, 2021
Sessions will not be recorded
8 CE Hours
Registration
About the Speaker
J. Randolph Kissell, P.E.
Randy Kissell is a managing consultant for Trinity Consultants and has over 40 years of experience designing aluminum structures. He co-authored Aluminum Structures - A Guide to Their Specifications and Design published by John Wiley, co-holds numerous US patents on aluminum structures, and was featured on the cover of Structural Engineer magazine in 2013. Structures he has designed have been featured in Civil Engineering, Engineering News-Record, and at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Structures Congresses. He has conducted ASCE’s Designing Aluminum Structures seminar since 2002 and similar seminars for the National Council of Structural Engineering Associations and the American Welding Society.
Mr. Kissell is the secretary of the Engineering Advisory Committee of the Aluminum Association, responsible for the Specification for Aluminum Structures, used throughout the US for aluminum structural design. He is the chair of the American Welding Society’s Subcommittee on Aluminum Structures and a member of the ASTM Light Metal Alloys committee and the Canadian Standards Association’s committee on Strength Design in Aluminum.