Design of plate girder

CE-312
Definition
Beam & Plate Girder
Functions of plate girder
Use of Girder
Floor Framing System
Typical Plate Girder with Stiffeners
Installation of Plate Girder
Stiffeners used Plate Girder
Typical example
Typical sections
Few + points
Post buckling behavior

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Plate girder
 Design Steps
• Estimation of factored loads
• Computation of maximum bending moment and shear force
• Preliminary design
– Web design
– Flange
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• Check the preliminary design
– Check the flange stresses
• Check for bending g stresses
– Check for web stresses
• Check for shear stresses
• Check for stiffener requirements and design
– Intermediate stiffeners
– Check for combined shear and bending actions
– Bearing stiffeners
• Detailing of the Plate Girder
 Proportioning web plate
Step-3a

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 Proportioning the web plate

Selection of web thickness Target

 Proportioning web plate (no tension field
action)
Criteria-1

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spaced spaced

Criteria-2 Step-4a
 Proportioning web plate
((tension field action))
Step-4a
The allowable shear stress of the web plate can be increased considering post
buckling
g strength
g and tension field action p
provided that the following
g conditions are met
 Proportioning flange plate
Step-3b
Preliminary selection of Flange plate Target:
In order to avoid local buckling
of flange plate

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 Proportioning of flange plate
Step-4b
 Proportioning flange plate
Reduction of the allowable bending stress
 Intermediate stiffeners
Step-5a
Intermediate stiffeners are not required, if If the stiffener is required
Check for combined action bending
and
d shear
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Size of Intermediate stiffeners

(1)

(2)

(3)
 Bearing stiffeners
Step-5b
Welded Connections (Flange to web)
Flange and web plates are connected to each other by fillet weld
weld. Flange-web fillet
welds are designed to transmit horizontal shear due to variation of bending
moment over the girder and direct pressure due to the distributed loads
Welded Connections (web to stiffeners)

Weld size:
The End