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The Design of Modern Steel Bridges - TEDI

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

Many tension-field mechanisms have been postulated on the assumption that<br />

the ultimate shear capacity is the sum <strong>of</strong> the resistance <strong>of</strong> the following three<br />

separate and successively occurring mechanisms, as shown schematically in<br />

Fig. 5.20: (a) a pure shear field, (b) a diagonal tension field, and (c) a frame<br />

mechanism, involving the flanges.<br />

Mention may be made <strong>of</strong> the mechanisms proposed by Fujii and also by<br />

Ostapenko and Chern, in which there is an <strong>of</strong>f-diagonal central band <strong>of</strong><br />

yielding where the magnitude <strong>of</strong> the membrane tension takes account <strong>of</strong> the<br />

stress that existed at the onset <strong>of</strong> buckling, and smaller tension in the two<br />

triangular areas that can be resisted by the flanges – see Fig. 5.21.<br />

Figure 5.20 Three stages <strong>of</strong> tension-field mechanism. (a) Stage 1, pure shear;<br />

(b) Stage 2, diagonal tension; (c) Stage 3, frame mechanism.<br />

Figure 5.21 Tension-field mechanisms <strong>of</strong> Fujii and Ostapenko/Chern.

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