Sub: Structural Engineering

Topic : Steel Structures

MODULE-41A
Plate girders and trusses

Elements: 1. Web plate 2. Flange plates 3. Stiffness a) bearing stiffness 4. Splices a) web & flange b) transverse and longitudinal stiffness

Web thickness: 1. When transverse stiffness are not provided Web connected to flanges along Both longitudinal edges

Along one longitudinal edge only

2. When only transverse stiffness are provided For 3d For 0.74d For c <0.74d

3. When transverse stiffness and longitudinally stiffness are provided at area at one level only, at 0.2d from the compression flange. 2.4d 0.74d

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Sub: Structural Engineering

Topic : Steel Structures

4. When a second longitudinal stiffener provided at N.A c= actual stiffener spacing

Stiffener Design: 1. Intermediate transverse web stiffeners: To improve the buckling strength of a slender web due to shear 2. Load carrying stiffener: To prevent local buckling of the web due to concentrated loading. 3. Bearing stiffener: To prevent local crushing of the web due to concentrated loading. 4. Torsion stiffener: To provide torsional restraint to beams and girders at supports. 5. Diagonal stiffener: To provide local reinforcement to a web under shear and bearing. 6. Tension stiffener: to transmit tensile forces applied to a web through a flange.

Outstand of web stiffner : should not exceed 20 where thickness of stiffner

Minimum stiffness: If If Buckling check: = stiffener force = design resistance of intermediate stiffener V = factored shear from adjacent to stiffener = shear buckling resistance of web panel. Connection of intermediate stiffeners to web:

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Sub: Structural Engineering Shear between each component of stiffener & web

Topic : Steel Structures

Web thickness outstand width of stiffener. Longitudinal stiffeners:

Bearing stiffeners: =( ) Stiff bearing length Length obtained by dispersion through the flange to the Web junction at a slope of 1:2.5 to the plane of flange Applied load - capacity of web

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