Elastic critical shear buckling stress of large-scale corrugated steel web used in bridge girders

2021 ◽  
Vol 244 ◽  
pp. 112757
Author(s):  
Sihao Wang ◽  
Yun Zhang ◽  
Tingyi Luo ◽  
Yuqing Liu
Author(s):  
Mads Baandrup ◽  
Ole Sigmund ◽  
Niels Aage

<p>This work applies a ultra large scale topology optimization method to study the optimal structure of bridge girders in cable supported bridges.</p><p>The current classic orthotropic box girder designs are limited in further development and optimiza­ tion, and suffer from substantial fatigue issues. A great disadvantage of the orthotropic girder is the loads being carried one direction at a time, thus creating stress hot spots and fatigue problems. Hence, a new design concept has the potential to solve many of the limitations in the current state­ of-the-art.</p><p>We present a design method based on ultra large scale topology optimization. The highly detailed structures and fine mesh-discretization permitted by ultra large scale topology optimization reveal new design features and previously unseen eff ects. The results demonstrate the potential of gener­ ating completely different design solutions for bridge girders in cable supported bridges, which dif­ fer significantly from the classic orthotropic box girders.</p><p>The overall goal of the presented work is to identify new and innovative, but at the same time con­ structible and economically reasonable, solutions tobe implemented into the design of future cable supported bridges.</p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 2457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kangjian Wang ◽  
Man Zhou ◽  
Mostafa Hassanein ◽  
Jitao Zhong ◽  
Hanshan Ding ◽  
...  

Despite the construction of several curved prestressed concrete girder bridges with corrugated steel webs (CSWs) around the world; their shear behavior has seldom been investigated. Accordingly, this paper substitutes the lack of available information on the global elastic shear buckling of a plane curved corrugated steel web (PCCSW) in a curved girder. This is based on the equilibrium equations and geometric equations in the elastic theory of classical shells, combined with the constitutive relation of orthotropic shells. Currently, the global elastic shear buckling process of the PCCSW in a curved girder is studied, for the first time in literature, with an equivalent orthotropic open circular cylindrical shell (OOCCS) model. The governing differential equation of global elastic shear buckling of the PCCSW, as well as its buckling strength, is derived by considering the orthotropic characteristics of a corrugated steel web, the rational trigonometric displacement modes, Galerkin’s method and variational principles. Additionally, the accuracy of the proposed theoretical formula is verified by comparison with finite element (FE) results. Moreover, the expressions of the inner or outer folded angle and radius of curvature are given by the cosine theorem of the trigonometric function and inverse trigonometric function. Subsequently, parametric analysis of the shear buckling behavior of the PCCSW is carried out by considering the cases where the radius of curvature is constant or variable. This parametric analysis highlights the effects of web dimensions, height-to-thickness ratio, aspect ratios of longitudinal and inclined panels, corrugation height, curvature radius and folded angles on the elastic shear buckling strength. As a result, this study provides a theoretical reference for the design and application of composite curved girders with CSWs.


2014 ◽  
Vol 501-504 ◽  
pp. 2509-2514
Author(s):  
Jian Hua Shao ◽  
Wen He

The mechanical properties of low-yield-point (LYP) steel and its advantages as seismic steel are introduced in this paper. The theoretical equations of inelastic shear buckling stress at the pure shear action for the LYP steel are derived from unified theory of plastic buckling. The relationship curve of inelastic shear buckling strength and width-thickness ratio of LYP steel shear wall at the different height-width ratios of plate is given through iteration calculation process. The effectiveness of theoretical equations used for calculating the buckling stress is verified by experimental results.


1962 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. C. Rockey ◽  
I. T. Cook

SummaryThe paper presents a solution to the buckling under shear stress of infinitely long plates which are reinforced by both transverse stiffeners and longitudinal stiffeners. Each family of stiffeners is assumed to consist of equally spaced stiffeners. Both simply-supported and clamped edge conditions are examined. Numerical results are obtained for the case of a plate with transverse stiffeners and a central longitudinal stiffener and relationships between the buckling stress and the flexural rigidity parameters of the stiffeners are provided for three different spacings of the transverse stiffeners.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1942 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumei Liu ◽  
Hanshan Ding ◽  
Luc Taerwe ◽  
Wouter De Corte

Curved composite girder bridges with corrugated steel webs (CSWs) have already been constructed around the world. However, limited work has been done on their shear behavior. In this paper, the corrugated steel web (CSW) in horizontally curved girders (HCGs) is treated as an orthotropic cylindrical shallow shell, and the analytical formula for the elastic global shear buckling stress is deduced by the Galerkin method. Calculation tables for the global shear buckling coefficient for a four-edge simple support, for a four-edge fixed support, and for the two edges constrained by flanges fixed and the other two edges simply supported are given. Then, a parametric study based on a linear buckling analysis is performed to analyze the effect of the curvature radius and girder span on the shear buckling stress. Analytical and numerical results show that the difference of shear buckling stress of CSWs between curved girders and straight girders is small, so the shear design formulas for straight girders can be applied for curved girders. Finally, a series of tests were performed on three curved box girders with CSWs. Similar to CSWs in straight girders, the shear strain distributions of CSWs in HCGs are almost uniform along the direction of the web height and the principal strain direction angles are close to 45°. For the three specimens, CSWs carry about 76% of the shear force. In the destructive test, shear buckling after yielding occurred in all specimens which is in good agreement with the theoretical prediction, which means that the analytical formulas provide good predictions for the shear buckling stress of CSWs in HCGs and can be recommended for design purposes.


2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomohiro Ito ◽  
Hideyuki Morita ◽  
Koji Hamada ◽  
Akihisa Sugiyama ◽  
Yoji Kawamoto ◽  
...  

When a thin walled cylindrical liquid storage tank suffers a large seismic base excitation, buckling phenomena may be caused such as bending buckling at the bottom portion and shear buckling at the middle portion of the tank. However, the dynamic behaviors of the tanks is not fully clarified, especially those from the occurrence of buckling to some failures. In this study, bending buckling phenomena were focused which will be categorized as diamond buckling and elephant foot bulge. As ones of a series of studies, dynamic buckling tests were performed using large scale liquid storage tank models simulating thin walled cylindrical liquid storage tanks in nuclear power plants. The input seismic acceleration was increased until the elephant foot bulge occurred, and the vibrational behavior before and after buckling was investigated. In addition to the large scaled model tests, fundamental tests using small scaled tank models were also performed in order to clarify the effects of dynamic liquid pressure on the buckling threshold and deformation patterns.


2012 ◽  
Vol 557-559 ◽  
pp. 116-119
Author(s):  
Bing Liu ◽  
Yu Lai Han ◽  
Zhen Qing Wang

Three kinds of shear buckling parameters of corrugated steel web beam under high temperature of fire in different time are analyzed and the high temperature effect on structural steel property is taken into account, the expressions of local buckling parameter, overall buckling parameter and interactive buckling parameter are proposed and their variation trends with the high temperature change are analyzed, a recommendation is proposed in order to provide more accurate predictions for the load-carrying capability status of corrugated steel web beam under high temperature, the buckling parameters variation should be unbiased estimated above all. Numerical results show that high temperature has obvious effect on the buckling parameter changes of the corrugated web steel beam.


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