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The Design of Modern Steel Bridges - TEDI

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

Figure 5.24 Interaction between bending moment and shear.<br />

by the flexural rigidity <strong>of</strong> the stiffener. Buckling <strong>of</strong> stiffened plates occurs in<br />

two different modes, namely (i) the overall buckling in which the stiffeners<br />

buckle, and (ii) the local buckling in which the stiffeners remain stable forming<br />

nodal lines but the plate panels between the stiffeners buckle. As in the case <strong>of</strong><br />

plate buckling, an ideally flat residual-stress-free stiffened panel initially

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