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1. ENCE 710
Design of Steel Structures
VI. Plate Girders
C. C. Fu, Ph.D., P.E.
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
University of Maryland
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Introduction
Following subjects are covered:
Moment strength
Shear strength
Intermediate transverse stiffener
Bearing stiffener
Reading:
Chapters 11 of Salmon & Johnson
AISC LRFD Specification Chapters B (Design
Requirements) and F (Design of Members for
Flexure) and G (Design of Members for Shear)
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Typical Plate Girders
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AISC
Limiting
Ratios
2. 5
AISC Design of Members for Flexure
(about Major Axis)
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Beam vs
Plate Girder
(for doubly symmetric I-shaped sections)
Plate Girder: A deep beam
“Slender” web problems:
1.Web buckling
2. Buckling of the compression
flange due to inadequate
stiffness of the web
3. Buckling due to shear
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Vertical Buckling
(the compression flange)
(a) Lateral buckling
(b) Torsional buckling
(c) Vertical buckling
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AISC Maximum Web h/tw
Stiffened girder (for a/h ≤ 1.5)
h/tw = 12.0 √E/Fy (AISC-F13.3)
Stiffened girder (for a/h > 1.5)
h/tw ≤ 0.40E/Fy (AISC-F13.4)
(S & J Table 11.3.1)
Unstiffened girder h/tw ≤ 260
(proportioning limits for I-shaped members)
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AISC Nominal Moment Strength
If h/tw ≤ 5.70√E/Fy – AISC Table B4.1 treated as rolled beams
If h/tw > 5.70√E/Fy
Case 1 – Compression flange yielding
Mn = RpgFySxc (F5-1)
Case 2 – Lateral-Torsional Buckling
Mn = RpgFcrSxc (F5-2)
(a) Lp < Lb ≤ Lr (F5-3)
(b) Lb > Lr (F5-4, 5, 6)
(F4-11)
(for WLB)
aw = ratio of web area to compression flange area ( ≤10)
hc = 2 x centroid to inside face of the compression flange
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AISC Nominal Moment Strength
(cont.)
Case 3 - Compression flange local buckling
Mn = RpgFcrSxc (F5-7)
Fcr a. λ ≤ λp: Fcr = Fy
b. λ p < λ ≤ λr :
(F5-8)
c. λ > λr : (F5-9)
kc = 4/√(h/tw) and 0.35 ≤ kc ≤ 0.763
Case 4 – Tension-flange yielding (Sxt<Sxc)
Mn = FySxt (F5-10)
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Rpg bending strength reduction factor
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Limit States
in Flexure
for plate girder
with slender web
(AISC-F5)
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Comparison of LTB
(AISC-F5 with AISC-F2)
4. 13
Classical Shear Theory
(applied to plate girder web panel)
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Intermediate Stiffener Spacing
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AISC Nominal Shear Strength
If h/tw ≤ 1.10 √(kvE/Fy) -
Vn = 0.6 AwFy same as rolled beam (G3-1)
If h/tw > 1.10 √(kvE/Fy)
(G3-2)
(S & J Figs. 11.8.1 & 11.8.2)
Except (1) end panel
(2) a/h > 3 or a/h > [260/(h/tw)]2
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AISC Nominal Shear Strength
(cont.)
For 1.10 √(kvE/Fy) ≤ h/tw ≤ 1.37 √(kvE/Fy)
Cv = 1.10 √(kvE/Fy) / (h/tw) (G2-4)
For h/tw > 1.37 √(kvE/Fy)
Cv = 1.51 kvE/[(h/tw)2Fy] (G2-5)
kv = 5 + 5/(a/h)2 if a/h ≤ 3 and [260/(h/tw)]2
5 otherwise
(S & J Fig. 11.8.3)
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Shear Capacity Available
Figure 11.8.1 Shear capacity available, considering post-buckling strength.
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Tension-Field Action.
Figure 11.8.2 Tension-field action.
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Buckling of Plate Girder Web
Figure 11.7.3 Buckling
of plate girder web
resulting from shear
alone—AISC-G2
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Forces from Tension-Field
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Force in Stiffener
(resulting from tension-field action)
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State of Stress
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Intermediate Transverse Stiffeners
(at nominal shear strength Vn including tension-field action)
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Shear and Moment Strengths
(under combined bending and shear)
7. 25
Intermediate Transverse Stiffeners
Intermediate Transverse Stiffener
(not required if h/tw ≤ 2.45√E/Fy)
(1) Stiffness Criterion
Ist ≥ jatw
3 (G2-6)
where j = 2.5/(a/h)2 – 2 ≥ 0.5
(2) Strength Criterion
Ast > Fy/Fyst (0.15 Dshtw (1 – Cv) Vu/ΦvVn – 18 tw
2)≤0
(G3-3)
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Intermediate Transverse Stiffener
connection to flange
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Bearing Stiffener
(effective cross-sections)
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Bearing Stiffener
Bearing Stiffener ΦRn ≥ Ru
(1) Bearing Criterion (LRFD – J8.1)
Φ = 0.75
Rn= 1.8 FyApb
(2) Column Stability Criterion
KL/r = 0.75 h/r where r of 12 tw or 25tw
ΦcFcr = LRFD Table 3-36
Reqd. Ast = Ru/ΦcFcr → Reqd. t
(3) Local Buckling Criterion
(AISC 13th Edition Table B4.1 Case 3)
Min. t = w/(0.56/√E/Fy)
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Effect of Longitudinal Stiffener
on plate girder web stability
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Example –
Girder loading and support for design
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Example -
Factored moment and
factored shear
envelopes for two-span
continuous beam of
illustrative example
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Example - Design Sketch