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Structural Steel Design: Plate Girders

This document discusses structural steel plate girders and their design. Plate girders are deep steel girders usually between 3 and 20 feet deep that are constructed by welding or bolting together steel plates. They often require vertical web stiffeners to prevent buckling under shear and bending stresses. The design of plate girders must consider various types of potential buckling based on the plate thickness to width ratios and incorporate provisions in design codes like CSA S16 for checking bending strength, shear strength, and local buckling limits.

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Structural Steel Design: Plate Girders

This document discusses structural steel plate girders and their design. Plate girders are deep steel girders usually between 3 and 20 feet deep that are constructed by welding or bolting together steel plates. They often require vertical web stiffeners to prevent buckling under shear and bending stresses. The design of plate girders must consider various types of potential buckling based on the plate thickness to width ratios and incorporate provisions in design codes like CSA S16 for checking bending strength, shear strength, and local buckling limits.

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Structural Steel Design Plate Girders

Dr. Seshu Adluri

Plate Girders
Deep girders
Three plates Welded or bolted Rolled sections not enough Usually 3-20 deep WWF sections in the handbook can be used Web buckling
stiffeners

Variable c/s

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Plate girder stiffeners

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Plate Girders

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Plate Girders

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Plate Girders

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Bridge girders

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Beams in Bridges

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Beams in Bridges

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Plate girders

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Fabrication

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Plate Girders
Steel plate girders
Class 3 flanges & class 4 webs Reduce web area for Mr Stiffen the web to increase Vr

Useful in pure bending as well as in beam-columns Design Clauses: CAN/CSA-S16


Bending strength as per Clauses 13.6 & 7 Shear strength as per Clause 13.4 Local buckling check: Clause 11 (Table 2) Special provisions: Clause 14 Deflection limits: Appendix D

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Plate buckling
Different types of buckling depending on
b/t ratio Webs and flanges have different limits end conditions for plate segments Use Table 2 for beams and beam-columns
Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Plate Girders
Slender webs buckle easily due to shear or bending
Use reduced effective c/s

or
Use reduced capacity

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Plate Girders
Slender webs buckle easily due to shear or bending

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Web buckling

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Plate Girders

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Plate Girders

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Stiffeners are Important

June 1970, Milford Haven bridge over the River Cleddau in the UK

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

Plate Girders
Recall compression field action in reinforced concrete beams
Compression struts develop because of the presence of stirrups

Plate girder tension field action develops because of the placement of vertical (and horizontal) stiffeners

Plate girders -Dr. Seshu Adluri

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