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The Design of Modern Steel Bridges - TEDI

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118 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Design</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Modern</strong> <strong>Steel</strong> <strong>Bridges</strong><br />

Figure 5.12(a) Transverse stresses in buckled plates, with different longitudinal<br />

edge conditions. (i) Restrained against pulling in. (ii) Straight but free to pull in.<br />

(iii) Completely free to pull in.<br />

post-buckling stage, the axial stiffness <strong>of</strong> the plate, i.e. the longitudinal<br />

compressive force per unit area <strong>of</strong> cross-section divided by the longitudinal<br />

shortening per unit length, is given by:<br />

(1) 0.75E, when the longitudinal edges are restrained against any pulling in<br />

(2) 0.5E, when the longitudinal edges are constrained to remain straight but<br />

free to pull in<br />

(3) 0.41E, when the longitudinal edges are completely free to pull in.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se post-buckling stiffnesses are shown in Fig. 5.12(b). As the buckling <strong>of</strong><br />

the plate continues with increase in applied loading, the maximum longitudinal<br />

stress along the longitudinal edges reaches yield stress, or alternatively the<br />

longitudinal stress along an interior longitudinal strip combined with flexural<br />

stresses in the plate due to the buckles reaches the yield stress locally on the

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