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Rectangular Tank Design

I. Horizontal Stiffener Design (Short Side) 3. Bending Strength
LpB := 1.76 ryB Es FyB Critical unbraced flange length for which inelastic bukling applies (AISC 360-05, F2-5)

Critical unbraced flange length for which elastic bukling applies (AISC 360-05, F2-6) Es JB cB SxB hoB

LrB := 1.95 rtsB 0.7 FyB CbB Es

2

1+

0.7 FyB SxB hoB 1 + 6.76 Es JB cB

2

FcrB ( UBL) :=

UBL r tsB

1 + 0.078

UBL SxB hoB rtsB

JB cB

Critical stress based on LTB (AISC 360-05, F2-4)

MpB := FyB ZxB MnYB := 0.9 MpB

Plastic moment strength (AISC 360-05, F2-1) Nominal moment strength based on yielding

MnLTB ( UBL) := 0.9 CbB MpB ...

MpB ... L L + 0.7 F S rB pB yB xB) (

UBL LpB

Nominal moment strength based on LTB (AISC 360-05, F2-2 and F2-3

MnLTBB ( UBL) :=

0.9 MpB if UBL LpB MnLTB ( UBL) if

(UBL > LpB) (UBL LrB)

0.9 FcrB ( UBL) SxB otherwise

Nominal moment strength based on LTB with limits (AISC 360-05, F2-2 and F2-3)

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