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The Design of Modern Steel Bridges - TEDI

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

5.5.3 Loading on a transverse web stiffener<br />

<strong>The</strong> design <strong>of</strong> a transverse web stiffener should take account <strong>of</strong> the following<br />

effects if they are present:<br />

(1) the destabilising effect <strong>of</strong> the in-plane longitudinal and shear stresses in<br />

the web plate<br />

(2) axial force due to tension field in the web<br />

(3) axial force due to a locally applied concentrated load on the flange<br />

(4) axial force due to curvature or change <strong>of</strong> slope in the flange<br />

(5) axial force or bending moment transferred from a connected crossbeam<br />

or crossframe or deck.<br />

In addition, a transverse stiffener at one end <strong>of</strong> a plate girder has also to resist<br />

the inward pull <strong>of</strong> the tension field in the plane <strong>of</strong> the web.<br />

5.5.4 Destabilising effects <strong>of</strong> in-plane stresses in web<br />

Stiffeners are provided to prevent the web plate from buckling due to the inplane<br />

stresses in it. But when the loading is sufficiently increased the stiffeners<br />

themselves buckle. It may thus be assumed that the in-plane stresses in the web<br />

set up a bending tendency for the transverse stiffeners, which is resisted by<br />

their flexural stiffness. This tendency can be visualised more clearly for a web<br />

subjected to longitudinal compressive stresses, as shown in Fig. 5.26. <strong>The</strong><br />

elastic critical buckling load <strong>of</strong> an orthogonally stiffened panel subjected to<br />

a<br />

y<br />

P<br />

B b<br />

x<br />

P<br />

L<br />

Half-wave-length <strong>of</strong> buckling<br />

Figure 5.26 Effect <strong>of</strong> longitudinal web stress on transverse stiffeners.

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