scholarly journals Design of Transverse Stiffeners in Plate Girders with Corrugated Web

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Witold Basiński
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Models ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Absolute Minimum ◽  
Plate Girders ◽  
Corrugated Web ◽  
Intermediate Stiffener ◽  
Shear Buckling ◽  
Geometry Parameter ◽  
The Web ◽  
Stiffness Criterion

This study reports investigations into the effect of relative flexural stiffness of intermediate stiffeners γ on the failure zone location in the corrugated web. The study also aimed at obtaining stiffness criterion for intermediate stiffeners that depends on the magnitude of the plate geometry parameter α. To achieve the goals of the study, experimental investigations were conducted into load displacement paths of four exemplary SIN girders. They were simply supported girders, made to full scale, and composed of pre-assembled units. The phenomena occurring in the experiment were represented using the Finite Element Method. For FEM numerical analysis of girders with intermediate stiffeners, models with the web height of 1000, 1250 and 1500 mm, made from 2; 2.5 and 3 mm thick corrugated sheet metal were used. Due to the analysis of 52 girder numerical models, it was possible to propose the stiffness criterion of intermediate stiffeners. The criterion was based on the assessment of shear buckling strength of the corrugated web. Using the regression method, dimensionless coefficients of the stiffener stiffness ks dependent on the optimum stiffness γ were determined. Based on estimated coefficients of the stiffener stiffness ks, the absolute minimum stiffness of intermediate stiffeners Ismin used in corrugated web plate girders was calculated. It was demonstrated that the use of an intermediate stiffener, the stiffness of which is greater than Ismin , additionally leads to a change in the location of the site of the web shear buckling.

scholarly journals Shear Buckling of Plate Girders with Corrugated Web Restrained by End Stiffeners

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Witold Basiński
Keyword(s):  
Failure Modes ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Fem Analysis ◽  
Sine Wave ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Plate Girders ◽  
Buckling Resistance ◽  
Corrugated Web ◽  
Shear Buckling ◽  
Interactive Buckling

The study reports the investigations into the effect produced by flexural stiffness of end stiffeners on the design buckling resistance of the sine wave webs of girders. Experimental investigations were concerned with load displacement paths in sinusoidally corrugated web girders, composed of structural items and made to the full scale . The phenomena occurring in experimental investigations were represented using the Finite Element Method. In numerical models based on FEM analysis, the same failure modes of webs that were found in experimental investigations into corrugated web girders were accounted for. FEM numerical analysis was performed for girder models with webs 500, 1000, 1250 and 1500 mm in height, made of corrugated sheet metal 2, 2.5 and 3 mm in thickness. On the basis of laboratory tests and FEM analysis, a new method for estimating design shear buckling resistance for girders with semirigid and rigid end stiffeners was proposed. The method relies on the determination of interactive buckling resistance. The solution presented in this study was compared with formulas currently used for buckling resistance estimation. It was shown that the use of girder rigid end stiffeners produces in increase in shear buckling resistance up to 11%. Conclusions were drawn and recommendations were made with respect to the sizing of sine wave corrugated web girders with semirigid and rigid end stiffeners.

Bridge Girders with Corrugated Webs

2000 ◽  
Vol 1696 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Elgaaly ◽  
Anand Seshadri ◽  
Roberto Rodriquez ◽  
Sherif Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Moment Capacity ◽  
Design Recommendations ◽  
Plate Girders ◽  
Analytical Results ◽  
Corrugated Webs ◽  
Shear Buckling ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Web Plates ◽  
The Web

In plate girders, the use of corrugated webs permits the use of thin web plates without stiffeners, which reduces the cost of beam fabrication and improves fatigue life. Experimental and analytical studies on the behavior of girders with corrugated webs were conducted that have led to design recommendations. For girders with corrugated webs subjected to shear, it was noted from the experimental as well as the analytical results that failure of the web occurs because of local or global shear buckling, which depends on the corrugation configuration. For girders with corrugated webs subjected to uniform bending, the failure was due to yielding and vertical buckling of the compression flange into the web. The test and analytical results indicate that the web offered negligible contribution to the moment-carrying capacity of the beam, and the ultimate moment capacity may be calculated on the basis of the flange yielding, ignoring any contribution from the web. The behavior of girders with corrugated webs under in-plane compressive edge loads applied directly on the top flange was investigated, and design recommendations are made. Tests to examine the behavior of girders with corrugated webs under repeated loads are few. The results from the available tests are reported and compared with the results from test on conventionally stiffened girders with flat webs.

scholarly journals Shear Capacity of Singly and Doubly Webbed Corrugated Web Girder

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Hanizah Abdul Hamid ◽  
Azmi Ibrahim ◽  
Norhisham Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Sheet Material ◽  
Shear Capacity ◽  
Comparative Performance ◽  
Three Point Bending ◽  
Plate Girders ◽  
Steel Sheets ◽  
Shear Buckling ◽  
Post Buckling ◽  
Rib Arrangement ◽  
The Web

A conventional plate girder involves the use of transverse intermediate stiffeners, especially in a slender web to avoid catastrophic failure associated with shear buckling of the web. In this study, a profiled web was used to replace the transversely stiffened web. The process involves introducing cold-formed ribs into a flat steel sheet to form alternative stiffeners. This study therefore seeks to establish comparative performance of conventionally stiffened plate girders and profiled web girders of a specially formed rib arrangement with single and also double webs. Nine numbers of specimens were tested to failure under a three-point-bending system. Failure of all the profiled web girders, with either a single or double webs, is characterized by a shorter yield plateau and a steeper descending branch, a failure mode that is commonly referred to as ‘brittle’. The results of the tests on girders with profiled steel sheets, PSS(s) have shown that profiling is extremely effective in increasing the shear buckling load because it moves the sheet material out of the plane of the web, thereby increasing the rigidity 1.08 to 2.0 times higher than the equivalent conventional flat web plate girders. The experimental results also showed that post-buckling capacities are reduced by 30 % to 50 % of their ultimate shear capacities.

Shear Capacity of Singly and Doubly Webbed Corrugated Web Girder

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Hanizah Abdul Hamid ◽  
Azmi Ibrahim ◽  
Norhisham Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Sheet Material ◽  
Shear Capacity ◽  
Comparative Performance ◽  
Three Point Bending ◽  
Plate Girders ◽  
Steel Sheets ◽  
Shear Buckling ◽  
Post Buckling ◽  
Rib Arrangement ◽  
The Web

A conventional plate girder involves the use of transverse intermediate stiffeners, especially in a slender web to avoid catastrophic failure associated with shear buckling of the web. In this study, a profiled web was used to replace the transversely stiffened web. The process involves introducing cold-formed ribs into a flat steel sheet to form alternative stiffeners. This study therefore seeks to establish comparative performance of conventionally stiffened plate girders and profiled web girders of a specially formed rib arrangement with single and also double webs. Nine numbers of specimens were tested to failure under a three-point-bending system. Failure of all the profiled web girders, with either a single or double webs, is characterized by a shorter yield plateau and a steeper descending branch, a failure mode that is commonly referred to as ‘brittle’. The results of the tests on girders with profiled steel sheets, PSS(s) have shown that profiling is extremely effective in increasing the shear buckling load because it moves the sheet material out of the plane of the web, thereby increasing the rigidity 1.08 to 2.0 times higher than the equivalent conventional flat web plate girders. The experimental results also showed that post-buckling capacities are reduced by 30 % to 50 % of their ultimate shear capacities.

Low-Frequency Sine Webs for Improved Shear Buckling Performance of Plate Girders

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Y. Wang ◽  
Maria E. Garlock ◽  
Theodore P. Zoli ◽  
Spencer E. Quiel
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Cracks ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Robotic Welding ◽  
Plate Girders ◽  
Material Efficiency ◽  
Corrugated Webs ◽  
Shear Buckling ◽  
Elastic Shear ◽  
Traditional Strategy ◽  
The Web

<p>Steel plate girders are used extensively in buildings and bridges. Given shear rarely governs, minimizing web thickness is desirable. However, web slenderness can enable shear buckling and fatigue problems. The traditional strategy is to use welded transverse stiffeners; yet transversely-stiffened girders are prone to fatigue cracks and difficult to fabricate at high slenderness ratios. Thus, AASHTO currently limits web slenderness to 150. Alternatively, corrugated web girders overcome these deficiencies but require robotic welding for the web-to-flange weld. Corrugated webs are also limited to small web thicknesses (6mm or less) and girder depths (less than 1.5m) given web forming limits. The authors propose an alternative web geometry, introducing low-frequency sinusoids (LFS) in the web along its length. The LFS web can be welded to the flanges using semi-automatic weld techniques currently employed by bridge fabricators. The reduced web curvature allows for a wider array of web forming techniques with much larger plate thicknesses. In a finite element study, web geometric properties such as sinusoidal frequency and amplitude are varied. Results demonstrate a significant increase in the elastic shear buckling load and ultimate strength using a wavelength equal to the depth of the girder. The results of this study show promise for improved girder durability paired with material efficiency, demonstrating that a web product with constant amplitude and wavelength could work for various girder depths up to 3m and above.</p>

The Buckling of Shallow Corrugated Webs in Shear

1968 ◽  
Vol 72 (694) ◽  
pp. 883-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Rothwell
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Orthotropic Plate ◽  
Local Mode ◽  
Corrugated Webs ◽  
Corrugated Web ◽  
Shear Buckling ◽  
The Web

Summary The results of a series of shear buckling tests on shallow, flat-sided, corrugated webs are presented, and a comparison made with a theoretical analysis in which the web is assumed to buckle either as an orthotropic plate or in a local mode. An expression is derived for the efficiency of a corrugated web in shear, and used to compare the four shapes of cross-section tested.

scholarly journals Locally Corroded Stiffener Effect on Shear Buckling Behaviors of Web Panel in the Plate Girder

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jungwon Huh ◽  
In-Tae Kim ◽  
Jin-Hee Ahn
Keyword(s):  
Corrosion Damage ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Buckling Strength ◽  
Lower Shear ◽  
Out Of Plane ◽  
Shear Buckling ◽  
Buckling Failure ◽  
Plane Displacement ◽  
The Web ◽  
Plate Girder

The shear buckling failure and strength of a web panel stiffened by stiffeners with corrosion damage were examined according to the degree of corrosion of the stiffeners, using the finite element analysis method. For this purpose, a plate girder with a four-panel web girder stiffened by vertical and longitudinal stiffeners was selected, and its deformable behaviors and the principal stress distribution of the web panel at the shear buckling strength of the web were compared after their post-shear buckling behaviors, as well as their out-of-plane displacement, to evaluate the effect of the stiffener in the web panel on the shear buckling failure. Their critical shear buckling load and shear buckling strength were also examined. The FE analyses showed that their typical shear buckling failures were affected by the structural relationship between the web panel and each stiffener in the plate girder, to resist shear buckling of the web panel. Their critical shear buckling loads decreased from 82% to 59%, and their shear buckling strength decreased from 88% to 76%, due to the effect of corrosion of the stiffeners on their shear buckling behavior. Thus, especially in cases with over 40% corrosion damage of the vertical stiffener, they can have lower shear buckling strength than their design level.

Leakage Flow Investigations on a Through-Wall Crack Related to Thermal Fatigue of Nuclear Power Plant Piping

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Schmid ◽  
Rudi Kulenovic ◽  
Eckart Laurien
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Leakage Flow ◽  
Test Rig ◽  
Reduced Pressure ◽  
Flow Rates ◽  
Set Up

For the validation of empirical models to calculate leakage flow rates in through-wall cracks of piping, reliable experimental data are essential. In this context, the Leakage Flow (LF) test rig was built up at the IKE for measurements of leakage flow rates with reduced pressure (maximum 1 MPA) and temperature (maximum 170 °C) compared to real plant conditions. The design of the test rig enables experimental investigations of through-wall cracks with different geometries and orientations by means of circular blank sheets with integrated cracks which are installed in the tubular test section of the test rig. In the paper, the experimental LF set-up and used measurement techniques are explained in detail. Furthermore, first leakage flow measurement results for one through-wall crack geometry and different imposed fluid pressures at ambient temperature conditions are presented and discussed. As an additional aspect the experimental data are used for the determination of the flow resistance of the investigated leak channel. Finally, the experimental results are compared with numerical results of WinLeck calculations to prove specifically in WinLeck implemented numerical models.

Tragverhalten von Wellstegträgern mit kreisförmigen Öffnungskranz/Shear buckling of corrugated web beams with circular opening wall

Bauingenieur ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 96 (04) ◽  
pp. 114-120
Author(s):  
Zheng Li ◽  
Jörgen Robra
Keyword(s):  
Sich Eine ◽  
Circular Opening ◽  
Finite Elemente ◽  
Corrugated Web ◽  
Shear Buckling

Der Wellstegträger ist ein relativ neuartiges Bauteil mit einem breiten Anwendungsbereich im Stahlbau. Aufgrund des dünnen Stegs des Trägers ergibt sich eine signifikante Gewichtsreduzierung im Vergleich zu gewalzten oder geschweißten I-Profilen. Der Wellstegträger kann mit dünnerem Steg eine größere Steifigkeit aus der Ebene erzie- len, so dass das Beulen des Stegs durch die Wellung verhindert wird. Um eine Erhöhung der Gebäudehöhe zu vermeiden, können Öffnungen für Rohrleitungen in gewellten Stahlträgern eine kostengünstige Lösung darstellen. Dennoch reduzieren die Öffnungen im Wellsteg die Gesamtsteifigkeit und Tragfähigkeit des Trägers. Um das mechanische Verhalten von Wellstegträgern mit kreisförmigen Öffnungen und entsprechendem Öffnungskranz zu untersuchen, wurden drei Versuchskörper durch Bauteilversuche getestet. Die Finite-Elemente-Analyse wurde mit Abaqus durchgeführt. Die Simulationsergebnisse unter Berücksichtigung der geometrischen Imperfektion stimmen gut mit den Experimenten überein. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass der Öffnungskranz die Tragfähigkeit des Wellstegträgers mit Öffnungen wirksam verbessern kann. Anhand der Parameterstudie erhöht die Zunahme der Kranzdicke die Empfindlichkeit der geometrischen Imperfektion. Außerdem kann die Tragfähigkeit des Wellstegträgers mit kreisförmigen Öffnungskranz mit einem einfachen Rechenmodell für die Handrechnung auf der sicheren Seite liegend abgeschätzt werden.

Interactive shear resistance of corrugated web in steel beam exposed to fire

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-78
Author(s):  
Mariusz Marcin Maslak ◽  
Marcin Lukacz
Keyword(s):  
Failure Modes ◽  
Steel Beams ◽  
Steel Beam ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Design Algorithm ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Corrugated Webs ◽  
Buckling Resistance ◽  
Corrugated Web ◽  
Shear Buckling

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss in detail the design approach to shear buckling resistance evaluation for corrugated web being a part of a steel beam exposed to fire. Design/methodology/approach It is based on the interaction between the local and global elastic instability failure modes as well as on the possible yielding of the whole web cross-section during fire. Findings New formulae, adequate for specification of the suitable shear buckling coefficients, depend not only on the web slenderness but also on the temperature of structural steel. Originality/value The methodology proposed by the authors can be added to the current European standard recommendations given in EN 1993-1-2 as a well-justified design algorithm helpful in reliable evaluation of a safety level for steel beams with slender corrugated webs subject to fire exposure. It seems to be highly desirable because, at present, there are no detailed instructions in this field.

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